Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission published its final report in June 2015. Amongst its recommendations was a requirement for religious groups in Canada issue a statement no later than 31 March 2016, detailing how they will implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Archbishop Fred Hiltz delivered the Anglican Church of Canada’s response during a gathering at the Mohawk Chapel in the Diocese of Huron.
23 March 2016
When the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod meets in July to vote on same-sex marriage, ample discussion time must be provided before the vote is taken, the working group on the marriage canon recommended in a 13 March report to Council of General Synod (CoGS).
15 March 2016
A year after the Episcopal Church of Cuba voted unanimously to return to The [American] Episcopal Church (TEC) following the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States, it is still unclear how this will affect the relationship between the Cuban and Canadian Anglican churches, said Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
09 March 2016
A draft resolution to change Canada’s Marriage Canon to accommodate the marriage of same-sex partners is not likely to pass in the Order of Bishops by the required 2/3rds majority, the House of Bishops have said in a statement. Officials from the Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod have responded to the announcement.
01 March 2016
A remarkable account about how the diocese of Rupert's Land worked with the Canadian government, diplomats in the Middle East and doctors in London, to rescue an orphaned family of stateless Somali children who were born and raised in Saudi Arabia.
26 February 2016
Lost Innocence is just a comic book, but it took two and a half years to write. It’s not that its author, graphic designer and education student Brandon Mitchell, wasn’t dedicated. The issue, Mitchell says, was the emotional power of the material.
09 February 2016
After performing together for 19 years, the Three Cantors – Archdeacon David Pickett, Dean Peter Wall, Bishop-elect William Cliff and maestro Angus Sinclair – will return to the church that hosted their first performance to sing a final concert before Cliff is consecrated seventh bishop of the diocese of Brandon.
02 February 2016
More much-needed necessities will soon be on their way to families displaced by the war in Syria after the Anglican Church of Canada's Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund announced a $300,000 grant for necessities of life such as food, water, shelter, clothing, schooling, blankets, livelihood support, counselling and other forms of aid.
22 January 2016
On New Year’s Day, a Muslim family of refugees from Syria began the last leg of a journey that had lasted almost three years and brought them thousands of kilometres to a new home in Canada, sponsored by a local Anglican church in Ontario.
13 January 2016
A new Master of Divinity program at Trinity College, Toronto, is helping to prepare students for ordained or lay ministry in the Orthodox Church.
06 January 2016