Peace in the Middle East looked a little closer as 24 Jewish, Muslim and Christian kids from the Toronto area and Galilee region of Israel hugged, laughed and said tearful goodbyes. For 10 days they had participated in the Kids4Peace camp...
Bishop Nerva Cot Aguilera, the first female bishop in the Episcopal Church of Cuba and in the Caribbean, died on July 10 after a brief battle with severe anemia, the Episcopal News Service (ENS) has reported. She was 71.
Bishop Cot...
A proposal to exclude The Episcopal Church (TEC) in the U.S. from the rest of the Anglican Communion has been rejected by the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion in London. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of...
Anglican Journal readers will find the annual Anglican Journal Appeal inserted into this issue of the newspaper. Funds from the Appeal are shared 50-50 between the Journal and the 22 diocesan newspapers that it carries. Also see Appeal...
Canadas next governor general, David Johnston, is a respected academic and lawyer. He is also Anglican.
Currently the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, Johnston will succeed Governor General Michalle Jean when...
Vianney (Sam) Carriere has been appointed interim director of the department of philanthropy, the Anglican Church of Canada has announced. Carriere is currently director of communications and information resources for General Synod.
The...
The Anglican Church of Canada plans to mark the 25th anniversary of The Book of Alternative Services (BAS) with retrospective essays from people who helped create the book. Essays from others expressing what the book means to them will...
The United Nations refugee agency is calling for increased relief efforts in the province of Balochistan in Pakistan, where two million people have been affected by flooding.
By any definition it is a humanitarian tragedy in Balochistan,...
Jerusalem
Politicians need to focus on the human face of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not discard it in favour of their own political agendas, the head of the World Council of Churches has said in the Middle East.
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Geneva
The financial and economic crisis experienced by many societies could bring about a powerful change to "sustainable environmental development", says Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I of Constantinople.
Istanbul-based...
Archdeacon Robert Dann recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of his ordination at St. Aidans Church in London, Ont.
Born in 1917, he was first ordained as a deacon at Christ Church Fredericton in New Brunswick. He served the parishes...
DES MOINES, Iowa (CNS) -- Thieves electronically stole more than $600,000 from a Diocese of Des Moines bank account on two days in August, the diocese and the bank involved said.
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) -- As the first direct peace talks in two years between Israeli and Palestinian leaders were launched in the United States, Pope Benedict XVI and Israeli President Shimon Peres met in a private audience...
Phil Porter of the Unified Governance Working Group (UGov) has issued the following update on the group's progress toward fulfilling a General Synod 27 request to bring a proposal for a single UCC governing board before the July 2011...
The Associated Church Press, meeting at its annual convention May 6-8, 2010 in Arlington, Va., honored the best of the Christian press at the awards banquet May 8.
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