In response to an urgent appeal from the Episcopal Church of Sudan, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued a statement calling on all U.S. Episcopalians to pray and advocate for the people of Sudan, amid 'fears that open warfare could resume within months, producing a humanitarian disaster of tremendous proportion.
02 August 2007
We are now in a moment of extremely pain, a moment of sadness, Brazil is crying because the accident of the airplane from TAM Airlines, flight number 3054.
25 July 2007
In a crowded Winnipeg hall last month, the Anglican Church of Canada and 10 other faith groups recommitted themselves to work for Aboriginal justice.
25 July 2007
Nine members of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council have been appointed to draft the Church's response to the first version of an Anglican covenant.
13 July 2007
The fabric of four centuries of history - woven with the 1607 beginnings of the Jamestown Settlement, Native American responses, and the rise of the African slave trade - was prayerfully examined on June 24 as Episcopalians gathered for Eucharist to mark the church's 400-year heritage rooted in the region.
26 June 2007
The Episcopal Church's Executive Council told the Anglican Communion that no governing body other than General Convention can interpret Convention resolutions or agree to deny "future decisions by dioceses or General Convention.’
26 June 2007
After a nail-biting election that took nearly three hours, a majority of the delegates of the General Synod elected Bishop Fred Hiltz of the diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island as the 13th Primate or national Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Canada.
25 June 2007
The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada has narrowly defeated a resolution that would have allowed dioceses to decide for themselves whether or not to bless same-sex unions.
25 June 2007
The theme for this 38th General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada is 'Draw the Circle Wide.' It is from a song by Bishop Gordon Light, and is consistent with the intention of the Lord of the Church to draw all people to himself.
20 June 2007
Representatives of about 10 Canadian churches and church-affiliated organizations will gather in Winnipeg on June 21 - National Aboriginal Day - to renew a landmark covenant with Indigenous peoples that pledges the churches to continue working on human rights and justice issues for native peoples.
20 June 2007