September 21, 2007 No ultimatum in request for September response, says Williams

The second day of meetings on Sept. 21 between American Episcopal bishops, the Archbishop of Canterbury and international Anglican representatives produced some heated exchanges over the contentious issue of homosexuality.

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September 20, 2007 Jazz ministry plays an upbeat note for New Orleans

New Orleans Last night, St. Anna’s Episcopal Church did what it has been doing every Wednesday night for nearly two years, since the great storm raked the city: it fed people and it opened its doors to jazz.

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September 4, 2007 Churches differ over reading of document

The Vatican’s top official for Christian unity has rejected criticism that an official Roman Catholic document will hinder dialogue because of its statement that Protestant denominations are not churches “in the proper sense.”

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July 12, 2007 Investment turns ‘landowners into backyard entrepreneurs’

Lapologa! The Sotho sign on the otherwise bare walls of a tiny watering hole in the neighbourhood of East Orlando invites neighbors to one of a handful of plastic patio tables and "refresh themselves" with a cold drink.

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July 12, 2007 Program banks on South Africa’s ‘unbankable’ citizens

Dominated by a handful of major banks, South Africa’s advanced financial system allows any foreign visitor with a debit card instant access to cash at ATMs everywhere. Unfortunately, this first-class banking system is mostly inaccessible to millions of South Africans who live in deep poverty in squatter camps or informal settlements around the country. Officially, national unemployment hovers around 25 per cent, but actual figures are estimated to be much higher.

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May 1, 2007 Philosopher awarded Templeton Prize

Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher whose work focuses on contemporary concerns about religion and secularism, and who recently began exploring the spiritual connection to violence, has won the 2007 Templeton Prize.

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April 17, 2007 Williams bemoans loss of listening to Scripture

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has lamented what he called the lack of “rootedness” in the Anglican approach to Scripture and said “we’ve lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation.”

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April 2, 2007 Solomon Islands bear brunt of tsunami

Terry Brown, the bishop of Malaita in the Church of Melanesia, and the rest of his diocese are “all fine” following a massive underwater earthquake that triggered a tsunami in the Solomon Islands. Early reports put the death toll at 15 and rising.

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April 1, 2007 Women priests ‘not a church-dividing issue’

An international Anglican-Orthodox commission on theological dialogue has wrapped up 18 years of work with a statement that, in part, has some application to the current controversies about homosexuality, said John Gibaut, a professor at Saint Paul University in Ottawa and a member of the commission.

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March 1, 2007 Churches gather to promote unity among Christians

From local churches in Abbotsford, B.C., giving their offerings to a local drop-in centre for youth at risk and to an AIDS charity in Africa, to inter-faith services among church leaders in Asia, Europe and the Middle East,...

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