December 1, 2008 Primate joins City for Life in call for abolition of death penalty

More than 100 people, including Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, braved a cold, rainy night in Toronto to make the city a “City for Life,” one of eight in Canada and more than 900 worldwide.

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November 28, 2008 North America contributes to root causes of food crisis, says forum

Did you know that the same amount of corn that produces enough ethanol to fill the fuel tank of an SUV would feed a Mexican for a year?

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November 28, 2008 Conservative Anglicans determined to stay within church

About 50 conservative Anglican leaders, including eight young theological students, gathered in Toronto for a one-day consultation on Nov. 25 and emerged with a determination to remain within the Anglican Church of Canada. They...

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November 27, 2008 Archbishop of Canterbury ‘outraged’ by Mumbai attacks

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has expressed his “shock and outrage at the appalling atrocities” in Mumbai and has offered prayers on behalf of the Anglican Communion for those who have lost loved ones or are caring for those who have been injured and affected by the siege.

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November 25, 2008 Seven positions terminated as part of national office cuts

Faced with declining revenue and recurring budget deficits in recent years, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada announced on Nov. 25 the termination of seven positions at its national office in Toronto. The terminations were part of a plan to cut the 2009 budget by $1.3 million and reduce the deficit to $800,000.

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November 25, 2008 Temba House provides education and hope to South African community

When Lulu Boxoza started Temba Community Development Services in Mthantha, South Africa in 1999, she thought she would be involved in poverty alleviation, but people were so overwhelmed by the HIV/AIDS pandemic that her group quickly switched to working on awareness-raising programs and education. She soon discovered that many people sent home from overfilled hospitals had no one to look after them.

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November 24, 2008 Linking the right to food with trade and investment

Earthquakes, floods, rocketing food prices and bank failures are issues consuming the early part of the 21st century, and have led religious groups and civil society organizations, as well as high ranking United Nations and World Trade Organziation (WTO) officials, to meet and discuss their impact in Geneva on Nov. 24 to 25.

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November 18, 2008 Plans to create a conservative province ‘disturbing,’ says primate

News of a plan to create a new North American Anglican province that would be defined by conservative theology rather than a geographic location may have been greeted with enthusiasm by delegates at the Anglican Network in Canada’s first synod last week, but Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, described the plan as “disturbing.”

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November 18, 2008 Stewardship in a time of financial crisis challenges congregations

Stewardship season, the time when Episcopal congregations ask their members to decide how much of their income they will give to support the church’s mission, coincided this year with a global economic crisis that caused layoffs, home foreclosures, shrunken investment portfolios and retirement accounts, and mostly dire predictions about the future.

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November 17, 2008 Anglican Network in Canada pushes for creation of North American province

Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) representatives are working with American colleagues in the Common Cause Partnership to create a new North American Anglican province, one that would be defined by their conservative theology rather than geography.

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