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
Vice President Dick Cheney, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, Bishop John Chane, a local Episcopal priest and a rabbi were amongst those who paid solemn tribute to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia at a memorial service on 6 February at Washington National Cathedral.
11 February 2003
"If I'd been born in space I would desire to visit the beautiful Earth more than I ever yearned to visit space. It's a wonderful planet," wrote Capt David Brown to his parents in the last e-mail they'd receive from him.
07 February 2003
Members of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council gathered in the Dominican Republic 27 - 30 January for a rare meeting outside the United States - and the setting made a substantial difference in some of the council's decisions.
07 February 2003