After years of controversy and faced with bankruptcy, the Anglican Church of Canada has agreed to a deal with the Canadian government to share the costs of thousands of lawsuits brought by Native students who claim that they were abuse while attending residential schools.
02 December 2002
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) of the Anglican Church of Canada has made HIV and AIDS a prime focus of its strategic plan. The organisation made the decision at a recent board meeting.
21 November 2002
n the name of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada, meeting in Mississauga on October 28, 2002, issues the following statement in response to the decision of the Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster to bless same-sex unions.
30 October 2002
Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, who retires this month, has warned Canadian primate Archbishop Michael Peers and the house of bishops to go slowly in deliberations on same-sex blessings and to consult with the Anglican Communion.
30 October 2002
Watching John Rye at work in Africa was an experience like nothing else. He was a huge and volatile weather system in human form, soothing and soft one moment, stern, correct and formal the next, then changing to the balmiest pastoral wind only to shift again to sudden storm.
30 August 2002
The normally public dealings of a group of Anglicans opposed to same-sex blessings in New Westminster have moved behind closed doors on the say-so of a Texas priest.
30 August 2002
Ottawa is expected to be the next Anglican diocese in Canada to consider allowing parishes to bless same-sex relationships, after the diocese of New Westminster in June approved such blessings.
15 July 2002
The Rwandan archbishop who wrote to 12 conservative New Westminster clergy last week with an offer of "ecclesiastical protection" now says the offer was a misunderstanding.
08 July 2002
Dissident Anglican clergy, who walked out of their diocesan synod protesting a vote to allow same-sex blessings, have an offer of "ecclesiastical protection" from a bishop far afield of their Vancouver-area diocese of New Westminster.
01 July 2002
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Michael Peers, welcomed the open letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Revd Dr Trevor Walters.
20 June 2002