It is the eleventh hour, and the world is poised on the edge of war. Church leaders have warned of the unpredictable and potentially disastrous consequences of war against Iraq - massive civilian casualties, a precedent for preemptive war.
19 March 2003
We, your bishops, write to you in perilous times. We do not know what the next days will bring. War and the threat of war make many afraid for the welfare of all that they love, and all those whom they hold dear. Such fear gnaws at the edges of consciousness.
19 March 2003
All through these many months of debates and discussions about our government's policy and actions toward Iraq I have expressed my opposition to war. Joined by leaders and members of other faith communities, I have supported the alternatives to war that would both address the legitimate concerns of our nation and recognize that war at this point is not the solution.
17 March 2003
A high-level delegation of eight church leaders from West Africa - including two Anglican bishops - is spending several weeks in the United States, at the invitation of Church World Service, for intensive consultations with government and church officials, pleading for help with peace efforts in their troubled region of the world.
17 March 2003
Many Muslims were moved by the words of Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold on his recent trip to Chicago. Abdul Mujahid, President of Sound Vision (Television and Multimedia Production), said that he found hope in the Presiding Bishop's message and was encouraged that a Christian faith leader would be so supportive of the struggles in the Middle East.
12 March 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
The Rt Revd Pierre W. Whalon, bishop of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe, received an invitation to Iraq February 19-23 to pray with, meet and talk with the leaders of major Christian groups in that country.
03 March 2003
Parishioners of a local Anglican church are part of the relief effort for the people of Badger, Newfoundland, who were forced out of their homes by a wall of ice after three rivers surged over their banks and converged on the town last Saturday.
20 February 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