Archbishop Michael Peers has called on various religious traditions in Canada to rise above their differences and renew their public role in society saying their contributions are "particularly crucial" as more and more Canadians are "losing confidence in the common good".
26 January 2004
Episcopal Relief and Development is providing support to victims of Cyclone Heta, which hit Samoan islands in the Pacific in early January. Winds, flash flooding, and strong waves damaged homes and destroyed crops.
22 January 2004
A gathering of more than 3,000 conservative Episcopalians from the USA met in Woodbridge, Virginia, January 9-10, to declare their faith and commitment to the traditional teachings of scripture in the Anglican Communion and to prepare for realignment of an orthodox Anglicanism in the United States.
16 January 2004
Parishes in the former British Columbia diocese of Cariboo, Canada, will once again have a bishop. Now called the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI), representatives from the parishes on January 10 nominated Canon Gordon Light to the position of bishop suffragan to the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and the Yukon, currently Archbishop David Crawley.
13 January 2004
Archbishop Drexel Gomez, Primate of the Province of the West Indies, was among the speakers who stirred the "Future of the Anglican Communion" conference meeting January 8-9 in Charleston, South Carolina, with calls for disciplinary action against the Episcopal Church, USA, (ECUSA) for its stance on homosexuality and the interpretation of scripture and tradition.
13 January 2004
The recent unilateral actions of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA) in consecrating a bishop who is sexually active outside marriage, and the recognition of same-sex blessings have created a deeply painful and divisive situation and has devastated our Christian witness
12 January 2004
Some of the callers and writers were viciously, personally abusive, others were supportive, others disappointed and still others were confused. That was the range of reaction reported by Bishop Ralph Spence and Dean Peter Wall of the diocese of Niagara after Dean Wall married a lesbian couple last August at Christ's Church Cathedral in Hamilton, Ontario.
10 January 2004
With some Anglican provinces threatening or actually breaking communion with the Episcopal Church (ECUSA) over the actions of General Convention 2003, the work of ECUSA missionaries continues as usual throughout the world.
06 January 2004
A network of parishes and dioceses that dissent from decisions by last summer's General Convention to endorse the consecration of an openly gay bishop coadjutor in New Hampshire and acknowledge that some dioceses are blessing same-gender relationships is poised to take the next steps toward creating a formal relationship.
23 December 2003
Since the consecration of Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire on November 2, nine of the 38 worldwide Anglican provinces have declared themselves to be in "impaired" or "broken communion" with all or part of the Episcopal Church in the United States
09 December 2003