The Anglican Church's national office hosted an historic meeting of Canadian religious leaders with the Hon. Allan Rock, Minister of Justice, to discuss the issue of Nazi war criminals in Canada.
09 May 1997
The Anglican Journal was voted the best national or international newspaper at the recent Associated Church Press awards in Chicago, Illinois. The Associated Church Press is a North American organisation of 178 publications with a combined circulation of 30 million.
02 May 1997
Two-thirds of Canadian Anglican bishops surveyed recently favour some change to their 1979 guidelines on the ordination of homosexual persons, but they have continued to uphold the guidelines "in principle".
02 May 1997
(Anglican Church of Canada statement). Background: The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada met April 14 to 18 in Mississauga. Since 1991, the House has been committed to reviewing the basis of its 1979 guidelines on the ordination of homosexual persons.
25 April 1997
The seven diocesan bishops and the primate of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEAB), recommended that Anglicans receive people of any race, culture, social class or sexual orientation with love.
25 April 1997
Four bishops have been nominated as candidates for the next Presiding Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA.
18 April 1997
While it may walk a little slowly, the Church is working on missionary transformation, according to leaders from the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEAB). The statement was made April 10 at the end of a meeting to evaluate the Decade of Evangelism which will end in year 2001. The meeting brought together more than 70 Church leaders from the seven dioceses of Brazil.
18 April 1997
The Diocese of Eau Claire in ECUSA has established an agreement for prayer and fellowship with the Old Catholic Diocese of Germany, the first such agreement between Episcopal and Old Catholic dioceses.
14 March 1997
As part of a "pure evangelistic undertaking", the Diocese of Connecticut is distributing small wooden crosses made by Christian Palestinians from olive wood. According to Alinda Stanley, chair of the diocese's evangelism committee, "the crosses have filled a great need here in Connecticut, to provide a simple, powerful tool for Episcopalians to witness to the power of Christ's love for the world."
07 March 1997
All 30 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada have met or exceeded amounts they had agreed to pay in 1996 to help finance national ministry and mission. Seven dioceses actually paid more to the apportionment, or program, part of the budget than they had originally committed themselves to. Additional payments were made by the dioceses of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Huron, Niagara, Ontario, Toronto and Edmonton.
21 February 1997