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Cuban Church Thrives on Adversity

Cuban Church Thrives on Adversity

The yellow stucco church stood on a corner. A tall man strode out from under a tree. He hailed us. We stopped the car and I noticed the ragged T-shirt hanging on his thin frame.

23 February 1998

Cardinal Preaches in Anglican Cathedral

Cardinal Preaches in Anglican Cathedral

(ALC)In an unprecedented act in the country's religious history, Ecuadorian Cardinal Bernardino Echeverria offered a sermon in the Anglican Church's El Salvador Cathedral.

30 January 1998

Church Leaders call for Peace

Church Leaders call for Peace

(ALC/ACNS ) Christians, Hindus and Muslims gathered at the National Park Stadium in Georgetown, Guyana's on Sunday 11 January for an interfaith service for peace and atonement.

23 January 1998

Church responds to ice storms

Church responds to ice storms

Following the devastating ice storms hitting Canada the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada issued the following letter to the Canadian bishops.

18 January 1998

Church response to Government apology

Church response to Government apology

The Canadian federal Government has taken a useful first step in apologising to indigenous peoples for the harm they suffered at residential schools, but it must remain open to other remedies that may be required or sought, according to Archdeacon Jim Boyles, General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada.

18 January 1998

New Presiding Bishop Invested

New Presiding Bishop Invested

(By James Solheim ENS) In a sweeping liturgy that combined soaring choral music, the heady rhythms of Native American drums and African American spirituals, with the spectacle and colour of stately processions, Frank Tracy Griswold of Chicago was invested as the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church at Washington National Cathedral January 10.

18 January 1998

Griswold invested as 25th presiding bishop of Episcopal Church

Griswold invested as 25th presiding bishop of Episcopal Church

(ENS) In a sweeping liturgy that combined soaring choral music, the heady rhythms of Native American drums and African American spirituals, with the spectacle and colour of stately processions, Frank Tracy Griswold of Chicago was invested as the 25th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church at Washington National Cathedral on 10 January.

12 January 1998

Sermon at the Service of Investiture of the XXV Presiding Bishop

Sermon at the Service of Investiture of the XXV Presiding Bishop

Grace and peace to those of you who are present in this sacred space representing the Episcopal Church, our world-wide Anglican Communion, the ancient churches of the East and West, the churches of the Reformation, and the two other faith communities

12 January 1998

Navajo and Anglo ways

Navajo and Anglo ways

Good Shepherd Mission, Fort Defiance, Ariz, is much more than a simple parish church, although it is that. In its 103-year history, it has been a hospital, school, orphanage and training centre. Currently, mental health, AODA and traditional healing, Americorp and a community college rent space inexpensively. There is housing for teachers in the local school system.

12 January 1998

A Canadian Anglican Niche in the Land mine process

A Canadian Anglican Niche in the Land mine process

Niche diplomacy - concentrating our available resources and influence on areas where we can actually make a difference is what Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy has been practising in the Ottawa Process around landmines. Two stories that lay together on a PWRDF desk give some clues as to a Canadian Anglican niche in the world-wide efforts to address landmine issues. Both are from Maputo, Mozambique.

12 January 1998