Former Episcopal Bishop Heather Cook was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for killing a cyclist in a drunken crash in Baltimore two days after Christmas.
28 October 2015
The Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada say that they recognise the “deep pain” that will be caused by next year’s General Synod vote on allowing same-sex marriage in Church; and question whether the Synod’s parliamentary-style procedures are “the most helpful way to discern the mind of the Church, or of the Spirit, in this matter.”
27 October 2015
The bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada have welcomed the “calls to action” from the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and say that they “remain deeply committed to walking in partnership with Indigenous peoples.”
27 October 2015
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (TEC) in America, the Most Revd Katharine Jefferts Schori, has said that she is “deeply grateful for what God has been up to in the midst of our journey together.”
26 October 2015
Christianity in Africa has benefited from sustained exponential growth, with numbers growing from about 10 million in 1900 to just over half a billion in 2015;
26 October 2015
As representatives from almost 200 countries conclude their final round of negotiations in Bonn, Germany, this week, ahead of December’s UN-led international conference on climate change in Paris.
23 October 2015
The Primate of Canada has welcomed the new full communion agreement between the Canadian-based United Church of Canada and the US-based United Church of Christ.
22 October 2015
Anglican Witness video puts spotlight on challenges in the Anglican Communion churches.
22 October 2015
The Communiqué issued by the Primates of the Global South of the Anglican Communion following their meeting in Cairo, Egypt, 14-16 October 2015
19 October 2015
Traditional seminary training has often left Indigenous theology students in a state of “befuddlement” – but a new program at the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College may help break that pattern, the Anglican Church of Canada’s national Indigenous bishop says.
16 October 2015