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Anglican Church of Canada urges Anglicans write their MPs about schools

Anglican Church of Canada urges Anglicans write their MPs about schools

Canadian Anglicans are again being urged to write their members of Parliament and local newspapers to express their views on the litigation surrounding residential schools.

14 September 2001

AAC statement on the AMiA Denver Consecrations

AAC statement on the AMiA Denver Consecrations

We are disappointed and saddened by the recent actions of some of our brothers and sisters in the Anglican Mission in American, specifically the recent consecrations in Denver, which can only be interpreted as divisive of our common life in Christ.

07 September 2001

Haiti Connection Conference to bring mission groups together in Port-au-Prince

Haiti Connection Conference to bring mission groups together in Port-au-Prince

Episcopal mission groups active in Haiti will join with Haitian diocesan leaders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 24, 25 and 26 October to share a vision and continue to build relationships.

05 September 2001

CSR calls for Australia to provide safe haven for people rescued from sinking ferry

CSR calls for Australia to provide safe haven for people rescued from sinking ferry

The Center for Seafarers Rights (CSR) of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey urged the Australian government today provide safe haven for accept the people rescued from a sinking Indonesian ferry by the M/V Tampa, a Norwegian ship.

03 September 2001

Native elder dies at 85: Primate presented Vi Smith with church's highest award before her death

Native elder dies at 85: Primate presented Vi Smith with church's highest award before her death

Vi Smith, a well-known lay person and elder with the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, died recently at the age of 85.

30 August 2001

The Episcopal Church's response to Israeli occupation of Beit Jala

The Episcopal Church's response to Israeli occupation of Beit Jala

As the Presiding Bishop's Deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, I want to make it clear that the Episcopal Church stands with her full communion partner, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in denouncing in the strongest possible terms the recent Israeli occupation of the West Bank town of Beit Jala and the use of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation and an adjacent orphanage there as a military outpost.

30 August 2001

Center for Seafarers' Rights calls for end to exploitation of workers in Nairobi, Kenya

Center for Seafarers' Rights calls for end to exploitation of workers in Nairobi, Kenya

The Center for Seafarers Rights (CSR) of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey has raised fears over the ongoing recruitment of Kenyans to work in cruise vessels abroad. CSR learned that a United Arab Emirate recruiting firm recently approached approximately 50,000 Kenyan citizens for work aboard cruise vessels owned by UK, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek companies.

28 August 2001

Approval of a new Warden for the College of Preachers

Approval of a new Warden for the College of Preachers

The Governing Board of the College of Preachers, located on the grounds of Washington National Cathedral, has approved the Rev. James Corner Fenhagen II of Georgetown, South Carolina as the new Warden [Chief Executive] of the College. Summoned by the Governing Board from retirement, Fenhagen has agreed to serve as Warden of the College on a year-by-year basis.

27 August 2001

Team finds that refugees still face a bleak future

Team finds that refugees still face a bleak future

A seven-member team from the Refugee Council USA returned from an extensive tour of refugee centers in West Africa and Egypt with discouraging news--refugees are still facing a bleak future.

24 August 2001

Canadian French liturgies approved

Canadian French liturgies approved

While synod members focused primarily on the healing and reconciliation, apology and forgiveness of General Synod 2001, an important set of documents were quietly approved.

24 August 2001