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Campus chaplains meet to discuss common concerns

Anglican chaplains can be found on Canadian university campuses from Halifax to Victoria, and every year, they play a vital role in helping young adults adjust to the strains of navigating higher education.

21 July 2017

Anglican leaders in Canada help fire stricken communities

As wildfires rage across British Columbia’s Central Interior, Anglican leaders in the region are doing what they can to support their communities, says Bishop Barbara Andrews of the Central Interior-based Territory of the People.

13 July 2017

Canadian Primate : look beyond quarrels to church’s wider calling of working for justice

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada reflected on the church’s role in society in an opening address to Council of General Synod (CoGS), taking place in Mississauga.

26 June 2017

Bishop describes African-Canadian dialogue as a model for whole Communion

The eighth annual meeting of Bishops from Canada and Africa has just taken place in Kenya, with the Bishop of Niagara,  Michael Bird, suggesting the yearly encounter could act as a model for reconciliation across the Anglican Communion.

22 June 2017

Canadian Bishops block consecration of diocesan Bishop over his views

A Canadian Bishop elect will not now be consecrated after a ruling by the House of Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon.

16 May 2017

Canadian pioneer of Church communications awarded Honorary Degree

Archdeacon Paul Feheley, Principal Secretary to the Primate of Canada, has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto.

10 May 2017

New Canadian public witness team starts work

The Public Witness for Social and Ecological Justice (PWSEJ) Coordinating Committee for the 2016-2019 triennium held its first face-to-face meeting at the end of April at Church House in Toronto.

08 May 2017

St. Jude's Cathedral in Canadian Arctic pays off its debt after years of fundraising

Twelve years after St. Jude’s Cathedral - the iconic house of worship in Iqaluit, Nunavut was destroyed by arson - the diocese of the Arctic has announced it has finally paid off the debt accrued in rebuilding it.

05 May 2017

Indigenous language project shares stories of loss and resilience

How would an attempt to wipe out your language affect you? How would it affect your children, and future generations?

28 April 2017

Iraqi refugee becomes Anglican priest in Canada

Fr. Ayoob Shawkat Adwar, a priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church, was received as an Anglican priest at a ceremony in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada,  last month.

25 April 2017