February 6, 2008 Communion distributes second draft of proposed ‘covenant’

Addressing concerns raised by several provinces, including Canada, about granting more authority to primates and other Instruments of Unity in the Anglican Communion, an international group has released a second draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant that maintains the body’s current structures.

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February 5, 2008 Henriette Thompson is new director of partnerships

Henriette Thompson, who has worked as associate academic dean of the Toronto-based Institute for Christian Studies, has been named the new director of the Anglican Church of Canada’s partnerships department.

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February 1, 2008 Sunday school gets wired

A historic church program in western Canada is returning with a modern twist as the diocese of Keewatin marks a century of Sunday School by Post by inaugurating a Sunday school course on the Internet.

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January 30, 2008 Church receives $9.7 million refund

The federal government has issued the Anglican Church of Canada a cheque for $9.7 million to refund a portion of the church’s contribution to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Fund, which had been set up in 2003 under an old native schools agreement.

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January 28, 2008 Bishop reflects on first year

Bishop Mark MacDonald said the welcome that he has received as the Anglican Church of Canada’s first national indigenous bishop has been “phenomenal,” with communities – both native and non-native – “expressing goodwill” towards his role as well as the concept of having a self-determining church for indigenous Anglicans in Canada.

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January 24, 2008 Archbishop Williams 'cannot support' interventions or irregular ordinations

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said that he “cannot support or sanction” ordinations of priests or bishops that take place outside a national church’s jurisdiction, but he has “no canonical authority to prevent these things."

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January 23, 2008 Lawyer helped draft church’s sexual harassment policy

Linda Barry-Hollowell, who served as a member of the board of trustees of the church’s Pension Office Corp. and the pension committee of the Anglican Church of Canada, died on Jan. 23 after a long battle with leukemia.

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January 21, 2008 Anglican World suspends publication, moves to Web-based format

Publication of a paper version of Anglican/Episcopal World magazine, published quarterly by the Anglican Communion office in London, has been suspended in favour of an e-mail distribution model, said Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Communion.

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January 17, 2008 Church is full of challenges and possibilities, primate tells students

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has urged divinity students from Trinity and Wycliffe Colleges in Toronto not to be discouraged by wrangling in the Anglican Communion over the issue of sexuality, saying he remains optimistic about the fate of Anglicanism

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January 14, 2008 Newfoundland bishop sets rules for clergy

Bishop Cyrus Pitman, of the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, said he expects clergy in his diocese who are involved in the Anglican Network in Canada and “working to the establishment of a parallel jurisdiction to the Anglican Church of Canada” would “do the honourable thing and resign their positions, relinquishing their licences to exercise ordained ministry in this church.”

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