FOR YEARS, we’ve heard the same story: Religion is dying in Canada, especially among young people. Churches are emptying. Faith is becoming irrelevant. The secular age has won. But recent data s...

(Staff) On Feb. 12, after a marathon debate, the General Synod of the Church of England formally ended Living in Love and Faith (LLF), the nine-year project that some had hoped would fully authorize s...

(Staff) SASKATCHEWAN’s highest court has issued a ruling that should please congregations across the country. Churches know they must give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, but...

IT IS A sobering season in Nigeria. On Feb. 4, Islamic extremists killed 177 villagers in Kwara State, mostly moderate Muslims, and 35 in Katsina State. 

(Staff) THE REV. Catherine Short will be celebrating the Christmas Eucharist at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Corner Brook in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland. Normally, this should not...

THE four-alarm blaze that gutted St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto last June is now being treated as a case of suspected arson, not faulty wiring, as first thought.  

A RECENT Supreme Court ruling in New Delhi has elicited responses of cautious optimism from the minority Christian community in India, who have long faced criminal cases under state-level anti-convers...

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH of Canada is making progress in resolving a massive financial scandal that rocked the denomination last summer

Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act now under consideration by Canada’s House of Commons, is seen by many as an appropriate response to a rise in antisemitic violence, but recent amendments that s...

BOLDLY announcing that “the future has arrived,” GAFCON, the Global South-based conservative renewal movement also known as the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, declared the crea...

IN THE WAKE of the suspension of Archbishop Steve Wood, the Right Rev. Daniel Gifford, the Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Canada, issued “A Call to Prayer” on Nov. 17.

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Shane Parker, and The Rt Rev. Daniel Gifford, the Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Canada, respond to the GAFCON announcement.

PROPOSALS to ban public prayer in Quebec would be a violation of human rights, threatening Christian festivals and the many acts of public blessing carried out each year, the Bishop of Quebec, the Rt...

THE ANGLICAN Diocese of Canada (formerly the Anglican Network in Canada) gathered for its annual General Synod on Oct. 29–31. The synod was convened and presided over by the Rt Rev. Daniel Giffo...

(RNS) – ARCHBISHOP Steve Wood, who leads the Anglican Church in North America, was inhibited, or temporarily suspended from his ministry, on Nov. 16, just days after more than 140 clergy in the...

She has been the Bishop of London since 2018. In her first comments since accepting the role, the Archbishop said: “As I respond to the call of Christ to this new ministry, I do so in the sam...

THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada elected a new leader at last June’s General Synod – but not from among the original slate of four candidates. The Rt. Rev. Shane Parker, Bishop of Ottawa, was...

THE RT REV. Dr. Mark Short, Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn since 2019, was elected on July 19 as Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia. He is the first evangelical to lead the church since th...

THE CHURCH of England’s governing body has called on the British government to improve funding for “desperately needed” palliative care rather than putting vulnerable people at risk...

(Staff) THE BISHOP-ELECT of Rupert’s Land, who has lived and worked in both Africa and North America, hopes to bridge the division between the Global North and the Global South in the Anglican C...

ANGLICAN LEADERS from across the Global South condemned the July 30 election of the Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann, a partnered lesbian, as Archbishop of Wales, describing it as an “abandonment of the fai...

IN THE LAST week of June, over two hundred delegates to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada met in London, Ontario to consider ways to rethink and restructure their denomination.

A massive financial scandal is rocking the Anglican Church of Canada. How was a 9-million-dollar five-year lease signed without the knowledge of the denomination’s finance committee? How could s...

THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada has elected a new leader – but not from among the original slate of four candidates. The Rt. Rev. Shane Parker, Bishop of Ottawa, was elected the 15th Primate of th...

THE BISHOP-ELECT of Montreal told The Anglican Planet and The Living Church that he has three top priorities for his episcopate: reconciliation, financial health, and safe-church reform.

THE Diocese of Montreal, facing allegations of misconduct against at least one of its candidates for coadjutor bishop, has elected the Ven. Dr. Victor-David Mbuyi Bipungu.

THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada has announced four nominees for the office of primate: the Most Rev. Christopher Harper, the Most Rev. Greg Kerr-Wilson, the Rt. Rev. David Lehmann, and the Rt. Rev. Risc...

(Staff)  ON March 8, the Rev. Chad McCharles, a Manitoba priest and student of Benedictine spirituality, was elected bishop of Saskatoon.

ON March 26, the Rev. Rod BrantFrancis was elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Moosonee during an electoral synod held in Cochrane, Ontario. There were only two candidates and he won sufficie...

THE Archbishop of Kenya has ordered churches under his care to stop allowing speeches by politicians during their worship services. The ban moves the Anglican Church of Kenya into a stricter separatio...