Anglican Journal

DIANE PAQUETTE STAFF WRITER Military documents called protesters from the Anglican Church of Canada "anti-APEC" and "anti-economy" leading up to the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Vancouver last November. The Department of National...

Ottawa A national ecumenical campaign calling for the cancellation of the debts of the world's poorest countries by the Jubilee year 2000 was launched on Parliament Hill by Canadian church leaders including the Anglican Bishop of Ottawa, John Baycroft....

Canada's three largest churches say the services theyprovide to the most vulnerable will suffer if the SupremeCourt of Canada rules employers are vicariously liablefor sexual assaults committed by their employees.The Anglican, Roman Catholic and United...

DIANE PAQUETTE STAFF WRITER Some people try Prozac, others pop Valium, but it appears regular church-going could be just what the doctor ordered to get happy. According to a recent study by Statistics Canada, people who attend church, synagogue...

`I'm a trapped Anglican.' THESE ARE WORDS which a friend recently used in describing to me his situation at the moment. We live in different parts of the country and had not met for a number of years, so we were catching up. As he explained his...

The flood of April 1997 that damaged the synod officeand cathedral hall in Peace River, Alta., may havemarked a turning point in the life of the Diocese ofAthabasca."At the time of the flood, a penny dropped for mebecause it said something to me about...

The APEC summit wasn't the first time members of the Anglican Church were monitored by security officials. Former primate Ted Scott said he was watched by government officials in the late 1970s and early 1980s. There was even talk his telephone...

A council advising the bishop of New Westminster onhow to respond to the thorny issue of blessing same-sexunions met for the first time in September.Members will meet again in December, BishopMichael Ingham said.The council was set up after the diocese's...

THERE'S A FIRE BURNING within the walls of Halifax's University of King's College. Steady and strong, the Anglican flames of faith are fed by tradition. Whether it's the 27 weekly services held in the chapel, the dedication of its liturgical...

The savage killing of a gay Episcopalian universitystudent in Wyoming has led to renewed calls foranti-hate laws and an appeal from the president ofIntegrity in the United States to cease using the"language of hate."Matthew Shepard, 21, died without...

The vocal opposition to the proposed Nisga'a treatycomes as no surprise to the president of the Nisga'aTribal Council."Whenever aboriginal peopletry to improve their lot, there havealways been opponents to this,"said Joseph Gosnell, Sr.British Columbia's...

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is "powerfully alive" in the Anglican Communion, but "liberalism ... is dead." That's the blunt assessment of Bishop Michael Ingham on the Lambeth Conference. The once-a-decade meeting of Anglican bishops from around the...

RIDLEY COLLEGE ADHERES to its Anglican roots. Founded by businessmen in 1889 as a boys' boarding school with strong academic and religious values, the St. Catharines, Ont., school is now a co-educational place of learning for Grades 4 to 13. ...

OttawaAnglican Bishop Gordon Beardy and a score of otherNative people from the Diocese of Keewatin ended a6,500-kilometre Sacred Walk for Healing on ParliamentHill Oct. 8 with a call for greater understanding andforgiveness between aboriginal and non-aboriginalpeoples.At...

KATHY BLAIR STAFF WRITER Two Anglican priests in Nova Scotia and a former priest who served in Winnipeg are facing charges relating to sexually assaulting boys. Rev. Wayne Lynch, 49, rector of St. John's Church in Halifax, and Rev. Michael...

DIANE PAQUETTE STAFF WRITER Three pacifists, including a retired Anglican priest, were arrested on a recent Sunday for trespassing near the war memorial at St. Paul's Bloor Street, Toronto. Rev. Dan Heap, an Anglican priest and former New...

A women's conference has led to an Internet chat lineand a women's support group.The first North American Anglican Women'sLeadership Conference was held in Vancouver inAugust, attracting more than 80 women from acrossNorth America. "The only thing we...

DIANE PAQUETTE STAFF WRITER The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches appealed for hope in the global ecumenical movement during a recent visit to Canada, in the face of controversy and discontent within the movement. Konrad Raiser...