Anglican Journal

St. Jude's Anglican Cathedral, the "igloo church" that was a landmark in Iqaluit until it was destroyed by arson last November, has been demolished and the diocese of the Arctic is now appealing for help to finance its rebuilding, estimated at $3 million....

ON SEPT. 11th, 2001, five years ago, I was in my office just three blocks south of the World Trade Center site when I heard a loud crack. Once it had been determined that a plane had collided with the World Trade Center towers, I ran up the street...

Kingfisher Lake, Ont. LAWRENCE FLETT, a first-time student at the William Winter school's summer session, has seen the worst and the best that Christianity has to offer. Mr. Flett, 52, a tall, cheerful man who wears his black hair in a long braid,...

London (ENI) -- The Church of England's general synod voted that the appointment of women as bishops is theologically justified, but hurdles remain before the measure can be implemented. "I must pay tribute to Anglican women who have been tested...

A two-day ecumenical conference in mid-August addressed the moral and spiritual dimension of the worldwide AIDS pandemic, shortly before the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Christian leaders, church representatives, people...

General Synod archivist Nancy Hurn has sought the assistance of diocesan bishops and chancellors in compiling an inventory of residential school records owned by various Anglican entities in Canada in preparation for the implementation of the Indian...

Cape Town ACNS -- Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane--a liberal African voice on the subject of homosexuality--announced on May 13 that he will retire as archbishop of Cape Town in 2008. In a statement, he wrote "this is my 10th year as archbishop...

Progress toward naming the Anglican Church of Canada's first national native bishop slowed over the summer as candidates for the position and a national committee, the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP), struggled to define the job's terms...

IT IS NEARLY four months since Captain Nichola Goddard, 26, died in action sewing with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan's Panjway district, near Kandahar. But her mother, Sally Goddard, still cannot say if she has accepted her daughter's death,...

Delegates of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada's (ELCIC) Eastern Synod voted July 6 to allow congregations to decide whether same-sex unions may be blessed in their parishes. However, a cloud of uncertainty remains as to whether the synod...