Anglican women joined other participants in the 49th session of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) gathered at the United Nations Church Center for a screening of Ladies First, a film highlighting the new roles of Rwandan women in government, business, education and reconciliation.
03 March 2005
Sanja Pecelj returned to Canada early this morning as a permanent resident, putting an end to a period that included 441 days as a refugee in sanctuary in the basement of an Anglican church in Halifax and nearly six months as a temporary resident in Mexico City, where she nervously waited for Citizenship and Immigration Canada to decide on her fate.
02 March 2005
What are the things that Christians should look for as they begin their Lenten journey towards Easter? Is there more to Lent that the traditional notion of "giving something up?" What does Scripture say?
14 February 2005
Statement on the President's budget by the Most Revd Frank Griswold, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, USA
09 February 2005
Honoring a commitment made by General Convention in 1997 (Resolution A205) to augment the church's awareness of and participation in world mission, World Mission Sunday will be observed throughout the Episcopal Church on February 6 under the theme "Treasuring the Communion."
01 February 2005
The Rt Revd Victoria Matthews of Edmonton returned to active ministry this month after seven months of medical leave due to cancer.Bishop Matthews reassured members of her diocese that she went back to work "with the permission of my doctors" and that she was not overextending herself to avoid a relapse.
01 February 2005
"The federal budget is ... a moral document," said Presiding Bishop Frank T Griswold to an audience at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, on 25 January. Anticipating President Bush's 2006 budget, scheduled to be presented to Congress, Presiding Bishop Griswold told the gathering that "rhetoric is one thing, but the budget is concrete and reveals the truth of our commitments," particularly with regard to the moral imperative of health care access in the United States.
31 January 2005
The Rt Revd Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera was consecrated the first bishop suffragan for the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia on Saturday 22 January at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, also making her the first Hispanic woman bishop and only the 12th woman bishop in the history of the denomination.
28 January 2005
To the faithful in Christ Jesus, greetings in the season of Epiphany. We rejoice together with you that God has "caused a new light to shine in our hearts" revealing God's glory in the face of Jesus Christ our Lord.
14 January 2005
With numbers of dead and homeless rising across southern Asia in the wake of 26 December's unprecedented Indian Ocean tsunami, Episcopal Relief and Development has begun emergency response efforts and welcomes financial contributions to aid these initiatives
31 December 2004