Manhattan resident Sister Ellen Francis, has just returned from a 10-day fact-finding and friendship mission to Iran, organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation
20 December 2005
Mindful of this season of Advent when Christians seek to share in "one another's suffering," Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold condemned a December 14 statement in which Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a myth created by Europeans.
16 December 2005
For most Episcopalians, All Saints' and All Souls' Days are relatively somber feasts -- a time for quiet remembering of departed loved ones and a commemoration of heroes of the faith.
15 December 2005
Canadian indigenous Anglicans' desire to form a self-determining community within the church took a step forward last summer when the 5th Sacred Circle approved a declaration calling for a native national bishop to be elected with a year.
01 December 2005
The announcement of a comprehensive agreement on native residential schools issues is good news for the Anglican Church and good news for Canada's indigenous people, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada says. Archbishop Hutchison hailed Ottawa's promise of generous compensation for people who attended the Indian Residential Schools and said the Anglican church remains committed to its work in healing and reconciliation with indigenous people.
25 November 2005
Bishop Paterson addressed the Council of General Synod during a two-day visit as the council gathered in Mississauga, Ont, Nov 17-20 as well as hearing presentations to CoGS by Canadians who attended the Anglican Consultative Council's meeting in Nottingham this summer
25 November 2005
November 5, 2005 - Electors in the ecclesiastical (church) province of British Columbia and the Yukon, meeting on Nov. 4 in Richmond, British Columbia, near Vancouver, chose Bishop Terrence Buckle of the diocese of the Yukon as metropolitan, or provincial archbishop.
08 November 2005
Peaceful reunification on the Korean peninsula - achieved diplomatically without the threat of a U.S. preemptive military strike - is a shared priority of the region's Anglican leaders and Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, who conferred in Seoul October 23-26.
28 October 2005
At the opening of the week-long Synod of the Diocese of The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands, Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies and Diocesan Bishop, His Grace Drexel Gomez said the Church must play an integral role in awareness building
28 October 2005
The Standing Committee of the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Belize has received with pleasure the news of the appointment of the Rev. Canon Philip Wright to be the 14th Bishop of the Diocese of Belize
28 October 2005