After the 21 December bomb blast there that killed 22 people, Sivret sent the following note to the people of the Diocese of Maine, adding his thanks for their prayers and for the support congregations have offered to his work with soldiers and the people in nearby Iraqi villages.
24 December 2004
About 80 children at the Chain Foundation Orphanage in Kampala, Uganda will be receiving Christmas gifts from Canada as a result of an initiative by Anglican Video, General Synod's video production company.
10 December 2004
Though we are now exchanging our "Merry Christmas" greetings, and carols fill the air telling us "tis the season to be jolly," Christmas provides something far greater than merriment, joviality, or an easy joy. Christmas points the way to something sober and enduring.
25 November 2004
The Anglican Church of Canada will join the world in commemorating World AIDS Day on Dec 1.World AIDS Day is a time to reflect on the fight against AIDS and raise awareness about the pandemic.
25 November 2004
Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada, at their regular fall meeting, cited a new spirit of reconciliation and co-operation among themselves and approved a plan that allows bishops to cross diocesan boundaries when parishes do not agree with the issue of same-sex blessings.
22 November 2004
As a synod we give thanks for the Windsor Report and all those that were committed to its preparation. It offers valuable tools to the Communion with which our serious problems can be addressed regarding the authority of the Scripture, order in the Church and the crisis over human sexuality that two provinces of the Communion have created by taking "rebellious and unilateral actions".
19 November 2004
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Most Revd Andrew Hutchison has said that among his priorities as Primate are communications and the building of relationships - "drawing people into the conversation."
19 November 2004
The Revd Canon Philip Poole, President of the Compass Rose Society, was elected Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Toronto, Saturday, November 14.
15 November 2004
Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) has written to Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon citing concerns about today's arrest of Mordechai Vanunu, who served 18 years in prison for leaking details of Israel's nuclear program.
12 November 2004
Bishop John Bryson Chane of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington has nominated the Revd Samuel T Lloyd III, an Episcopal priest now serving as rector of Trinity Church, Copley Square, in Boston, Massachusetts, to become the Dean of Washington National Cathedral.
12 November 2004