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
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
Church services have been held to mark Waitangi Day – the anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty is the founding document of New Zealand in which the indigenous Māori people of the islands ceded sovereignty to the British Crown.
09 February 2016
St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, has begun a consultation on the possible installation of two memorials to commemorate the role that Aboriginal people have made to Australia’s armed forces.
27 January 2016
A new initiative that will provide Indigenous clergy with resources to help fight what has been called an epidemic of suicides in some Indigenous communities will be launched in time for Lent, according to the Revd Nancy Bruyere, the Anglican Church of Canada’s suicide prevention co-ordinator for western Canada and the Arctic.
16 December 2015
The bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada have welcomed the “calls to action” from the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and say that they “remain deeply committed to walking in partnership with Indigenous peoples.”
27 October 2015
Traditional seminary training has often left Indigenous theology students in a state of “befuddlement” – but a new program at the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College may help break that pattern, the Anglican Church of Canada’s national Indigenous bishop says.
16 October 2015
The Anglican Church in Victoria is working on its own corporation to respond to child sexual abuse victims and help survivors obtain redress.
15 October 2015
Healing historic divisions through sacred rites and theology of reconciliation is major theme at IALC
02 September 2015
Participants address ecological destruction caused by mining, monocultures, deforestation
26 August 2015