The Lutheran World Federation Assembly, which meets in Winnipeg from July 21-31, is expected to draw more than 1,000 Lutherans from around the world, and Anglicans are helping in a significant way.
23 April 2003
Representatives of the federal government and the Anglican Church of Canada will officially sign an agreement on residential schools lawsuits, reached last November, at the church's national office on Tuesday 11 March.
10 March 2003
Amid reports that reconciliation talks between the diocese of New Westminster and eight conservative parishes had reached an impasse, cracks have appeared in the parishes' coalition between those who would like to continue dialogue and those who seem ready to accept an offer of an alternative bishop.
20 February 2003
The last of 30 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada have now ratified an agreement with the federal government which caps the church's liability in residential schools litigation at CAN$25 million.
13 February 2003
A US invasion of Iraq at this time would fail to meet any of the theological tests by which war can be justified, Archbishop Michael Peers, the Canadian Anglican Primate, says in a letter to church members.
22 January 2003
Half of the Anglican Church of Canada's 30 dioceses have now ratified an agreement on residential schools reached last November between the church and the federal government.
22 January 2003
The past few weeks have marked a watershed in the life of the Anglican Church of Canada. Beginning with the announcement of an agreement with the Government of Canada as to how validated claims of sexual and physical abuse in Indian Residential Schools would be apportioned, we are now in a period of discernment and decision together.
18 December 2002
The Revd John Blyth is on his way to the Philippines to eat little more than rice and greens for days on end and he could not be happier about it.
13 December 2002
After years of controversy and faced with bankruptcy, the Anglican Church of Canada has agreed to a deal with the Canadian government to share the costs of thousands of lawsuits brought by Native students who claim that they were abuse while attending residential schools.
02 December 2002
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) of the Anglican Church of Canada has made HIV and AIDS a prime focus of its strategic plan. The organisation made the decision at a recent board meeting.
21 November 2002