March 1, 2008 Judge rules against diocese of Niagara in dispute with local churches

An Ontario Superior Court judge ruled on Feb. 29 that the diocese of Niagara may not send its clergy into two area churches in the next two weeks to hold Sunday services for members of the congregations that remain loyal after most of their fellow parishioners voted to leave the Anglican Church of Canada.

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February 26, 2008 Two churches ask to offer same-sex blessings

As four churches voted in February to leave the Vancouver-based diocese of New Westminster and the Anglican Church of Canada over changing attitudes toward homosexuality, two churches asked to be able to join eight other parishes in offering blessing ceremonies to same-sex couples.

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February 25, 2008 Three more churches vote to leave Canadian church

Three more Anglican congregations voted on Feb. 24 to leave the Anglican Church of Canada over theological disagreements, including homosexuality, and request oversight from a South American Anglican church.

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February 19, 2008 More Canadian churches align with South American province

Six churches in five dioceses, voting at their general meetings on the weekend of Feb. 16-17, decided to leave the Anglican Church of Canada due to disputes over theological issues, including homosexuality, and join a South American Anglican church.

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February 14, 2008 Vancouver church votes to leave Canadian church

St. John’s Shaughnessy, a large Vancouver parish church, on Feb. 13 voted to leave the Anglican Church of Canada and affiliate with a South American Anglican church, in an ongoing dispute over Christian fundamentals, including the denomination’s more-liberal stance on homosexuality.

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February 12, 2008 West Coast bishops warn parishes against separation

At the time of year that Anglican churches usually hold their vestries, or annual general meetings, two bishops in British Columbia have warned parishes that they may not legally separate from their diocese or the Anglican Church of Canada.

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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 1, 2008 Jerusalem bishop opposes ‘divisive’ meeting

The Anglican bishop of Jerusalem said he has not been informed of a Holy Land meeting planned for June by a group that opposes some Anglicans over their tolerance of homosexuality, adding that he believes it will be divisive for the Anglican Communion.

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February 1, 2008 Priest retires from ‘ministry of the edge’

About 14 years ago, his health declining due to HIV, Ron Chaplin decided to return after many years of absence to St. John the Evangelist, a downtown church located on Ottawa’s busy Elgin Street.

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February 1, 2008 ‘Far more draws us together’

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, the primate (national archbishop) of the Anglican Church of Canada, has urged Canadian Anglicans to remember that while there is “great tension” in the church over issues of sexuality, “there is far more that draws us together than can ever tear us apart.”

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