Abp ANNE GERMOND has become Acting Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada with the Sept. 15 retirement of Abp Linda Nicholls. Germond had been serving as bishop of the dioceses of Moosonee and Algom...

NEW NUMBERS for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out, and they show that Canada is the first major province of the Anglican Communion to have collapsed. This is highly significant, both for...

A SUNDAY MORNING FIRE has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada.  The four-alarm blaze early on June 9 gutted St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto. It was a national hi...

KASABONIKA LAKE – A CHURCH FIRE on Sunday Aug. 11 has devastated the community of Kasabonika Lake, said the community’s head councillor, Rachel Mamakwa.

(Staff) ON MAY 28, the Rev. Dr. Dane Neufeld was elected Chair of the Canadian Communion Partners at the group’s Annual General Meeting.

TODAY many churches, including Anglican ones, wrestle with how best to engage the broader community and how to maintain a critical mass of parishioners and grow from there. Much research and reflectio...

THERE CAN BE no doubt that the Anglican Church of Canada is in steep decline. Some would say collapse. Both membership numbers and financial resources have been dropping precipitously for some time....

A Sunday morning fire has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada.

A SUNDAY MORNING FIRE has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada.

ON MAY 11 the Rev. Richard Reed was elected as the new bishop of Saskatchewan during an electoral synod at St. Alban’s Cathedral in Prince Albert, SK.  One of five candidates, Reed was elec...

PATRIARCH KIRILL of Moscow has been warned that his recent approval of a decree urging a “Holy War” and total takeover of Ukraine is likely to make the Russian Orthodox Church ineligible f...

A CANADIAN BISHOP who oversaw six parishes in Western Canada but who was affiliated with an American diocese has been found guilty by an ecclesiastical court of misconduct, including spiritual abuse....

CONSERVATIVE Anglican leaders have challenged the authority of the Primates’ Meeting in Rome April 29-May 2, arguing that it is no longer representative of the worldwide Communion.

AMID fears of a new wave of mass atrocities in Darfur, and warnings that 18 million people are going hungry, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Anthony Poggo, has appealed to the...

THE VATICAN has described the belief in gender fluidity as “a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God,” as it released an updated declaration of what the Roman Catholic ch...

HOPES WERE HIGH that the Toronto Congress of 1963 would radically change the Anglican attitude to mission. Over 1,000 bishops, clergy and laity from almost every diocese of the Anglican Communion atte...

(Staff) Russia’s most famous opposition leader and political prisoner died suddenly on Feb. 16 while incarcerated in the Arctic gulag. Alexei Navalny was only 47. The Kremlin denies any involvem...

ON NOV. 1, 2023, Islamic religious teaching was officially integrated into the educational system of schools in Brunei. This requirement was issued due to a decree from the country’s sultan. The...

CONVERTS from Islam are being pressured to leave Iran by the Shia regime, Christian charities concerned with religious freedom report

JUST OVER thirty years ago two young women, Teresa from rural New Brunswick, Jane from rural Nova Scotia, were “sent” to a week-long camp for youth. That reluctant start has grown into a l...

THERE’S THE OLD SAW about the famous Jewish violinist who was asked why he chose the violin over, say, the piano. “If you’re in a rush,” he responded dryly, “which one is...

IN ITS ANNUAL LIST detailing countries of concern when it comes to persecution of Christians, the watchdog organization Open Doors International highlighted outbreaks of violence against sub-Saharan A...

SPEAKING at Mere Anglicanism, a conference sponsored by a diocese that ordains women to the priesthood, priest and conservative firebrand Calvin Robinson described women’s ordination as a &ldquo...

VATICAN CITY (AP) – In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement on Jan. 11 refusing to follow his declaration allowing pr...

THE DIOCESE OF BRANDON has a new bishop-elect. On Nov. 25th the Ven. Rachael Parker was chosen on the second ballot by 21 clergy and 28 laity. She succeeds Bp Willliam Cliff who served the diocese for...

(Staff) HEALTH Minister Mark Holland says Canada is not ready to expand eligibility for assisted death to people whose only medical condition is a mental illness. He said the Liberal government agr...

AFTER MANY HOURS of intense debate, the Church of England’s General Synod on Nov. 15 narrowly approved a proposal by its bishops to allow clergy to bless same-sex relationships. The motion, whic...

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Evangelical Council (CEEC) will offer alternative spiritual episcopal ministry for clergy and congregations that oppose the introduction of blessings for same-sex couples.

SOME CANADIAN Anglicans were heartened to learn that a priest that they felt had been unfairly treated by the Anglican Church of Canada has been voted the bishop-elect of Cascadia, a diocese in the An...

(Staff) A PROMINENT Canadian evangelical scholar, speaker and author has been fired by a Christian university on the east coast after a lengthy investigation into student allegations of inappropriate...

THE ANGLICAN Network in Canada (ANiC) has elected the Venerable Mike Stewart as its Suffragan Bishop

He also had permission from the Commanding Officer to offer several Services, both voluntary and mandatory. This was before the new directive from the Chaplaincy General came into effect this past Oct...

OTTAWA, ON – MORE THAN eight in ten Canadians agree that euthanasia and assisted suicide eligibility “should not be expanded without improving access to mental health care first.” Th...

There have been many statements issued concerning the Israeli-Hamas war. We think this one from the Church of England’s House of Bishops offers particular moral clarity, especially in its openin...

NEW directive for military chaplains that came down one month before Remembrance Day could spell the end of open displays of religion in the Canadian Armed Forces. It will certainly limit them. Others...

A RECENT POLL of 174 living composers called J.S. Bach the “greatest composer of all time.” That would make Bach the Shakespeare of music. But just as the brilliant stage performances o...

AN ALLEGATION of blasphemy against two Christians in Pakistan has sparked a wave of sectarian attacks on churches and Christian communities

TWO women who were forced to parade naked through the streets and were allegedly gang-raped by a mob in Manipur, India were members of a Presbyterian church in the region

Bishop Azad Marshall visited the churches and Christian communities who were violently attacked in Jaranwala. He called for an end to Judicial Apartheid through fair and equal application of laws betw...

(Staff) THIS HAS BEEN a summer of smoke and flame as more than 1,000 wildfires burnt across Canada. It is the country’s worst wildfire season on record in terms of area burned. Wildfires forced...

Following the election of Bishop William Cliff on April 29th to serve as the 13th bishop of our diocese, an allegation against Bishop Cliff was received by our Metropolitan Archbishop Anne Germond. Th...

A NIGERIAN-BORN BISHOP who spent almost a decade as an Anglican priest in Canada before becoming a bishop in the United States has reversed his decision of three years ago and changed his diocese&rsqu...

The Anglican Planet invited Bishop Don Harvey to reflect on the Anglican Network in Canada’s 15th Annual Synod which was hosted by St. Peter & St. Paul’s church in Ottawa Nov. 2-4. Bp...

WHEN ONE well-dressed gentleman in Minden, Ontario selected a particularly ugly tie from his wardrobe to donate to St Paul’s Children’s Christmas Gift Sale, he did not expect to ever see i...

FEWER THAN half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census – the first time only a minority of the population has followed the country&rsq...

RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT is declining in Canada, but there are hopeful trends as well, and much to consider for evangelists.

11th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

DOES a mid-20th century British apologist have any relevance today for Christians who are trying to share the gospel? “Telling a More Beautiful Story: Lessons from C.S. Lewis on Reaching a Fr...

ONLY THREE DAYS after being elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Ontario, William Cliff, currently the bishop of Brandon, has been inhibited in both the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario by M...

WHEN HE WAS only five years old, young Joseph Ratzinger longed to become a cardinal – a dream he eventually realized. But when he was eligible to be elected pope, the elderly cardinal only wante...

(Staff)  WHEN the Church of England passed a motion in early February to allow prayers of blessing for same-sex couples, it sent shock waves around the globe and set in motion calls from other Pr...

ONLY THREE DAYS after being elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Ontario, William Cliff, currently the bishop of Brandon, has been inhibited in both the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario by M...

ONLY THREE DAYS after being elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Ontario, William Cliff, currently the bishop of Brandon, has been inhibited in both the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario by M...

ONLY THREE DAYS after being elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Ontario, William Cliff, currently the bishop of Brandon, has been inhibited in both the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario by M...

Trial Pastoral Liturgies for Journeys of Gender Transition and Affirmation, proposed governance changes and the reception of a document related to Abp. Mark McDonald’s resignation were on the ag...

A PRIEST serving in the Anglican Church of Canada has written an excellent article on the current state of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada and the churches’ response to it.

ONLY THREE DAYS after being elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Ontario William Cliff currently the bishop of Brandon has been inhibited in both the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario by Metr...

ONLY THREE DAYS after being elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Ontario William Cliff currently the bishop of Brandon has been inhibited in both the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario by Metr...

AN INTERNATIONAL conference of Anglican leaders, deeply troubled by the Church of England’s blessing of same-sex unions, have rejected the four governing structures that currently hold the Angli...

WHY have a coronation when one already has a monarch? After all, a British sovereign ascends to the throne immediately upon the death of his predecessor. Prince Charles became King Charles the moment...

At its General Synod held in Calgary, Alberta, on June 30, the Anglican Church of Canada authorized “Pastoral Liturgies for Journeys of Gender Transition and Affirmation” but with the amen...

Canadian bishops can hire priests from the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), should they choose, after receiving clarity about what it means to bring in clergy who are “in good standing.&...

The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada met during the same week as the Special Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canda (ELCIC), with a number of joint sessions for worship,...

WHILE most Canadians were preparing to relax and enjoy the long Canada Day weekend, over two hundred Anglicans were gathered in Calgary, Alberta to study, debate and vote on numerous resolutions at th...

This year’s General Synod has punted to 2025 two major governance motions that arose in 2019 — after delegates failed to change the marriage canon — including one recommendation that...

WHILE most Canadians were preparing to relax and enjoy the long Canada Day weekend, over two hundred Anglicans were gathered in Calgary, Alberta to study, debate and vote on numerous resolutions at th...

(Staff)  CHURCH OF ENGLAND bishops have refused to back a change in teaching to allow priests to marry same-sex couples

(RNS) – NEARLY 400 Orthodox Christian theologians from 44 countries convened in the largest international conference of its kind in Volos, Greece on Jan. 12 to discuss huge questions facing the...

THE INVESTMENT body for the Church of England has disclosed evidence of slave trading in its history, and has pledged £100 million (almost $164 million CAD) to a program of “impact investm...

INDIGENOUS ANGLICANS in Canada have a new leader. Chris Harper, Diocesan Bishop of Saskatoon, has been named National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop and Presiding Elder of the Sacred Circle with pasto...

HE SURVIVED a severe bout of COVID-19 when it struck him two years ago, but the Bishop of Saskatchewan has found its long-term effects so devastating that he is stepping down on April 30, the third Su...