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The Anglican Church of Canada is inviting applications until July 18, 2025, from individuals interested in serving as volunteer members on a new national advisory committee.

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I write to inform you that effective Tuesday, June 3, the General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Ven. Alan Perry, has taken a leave of absence from his duties.

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The season of Pentecost is always a fresh opportunity to call to mind and give thanks for the movement and inspiration of the Spirit of God, which is at the source of the community of faith we call the Body of Christ, the Church.

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I’m not sure I would ever be brave enough to risk being carried away in a nylon sack filled with flame-heated air. But I wish I could be.

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The Gospel-based Discipleship readings for June are now available for download.

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On the one-year anniversary of the Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage, a broad coalition of Canadian church leaders representing over four million people has written to Prime Minister Mark Carney. Their message is urgent and unified: Canada must act now to end the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

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Give thanks to the God of heaven, for the mercy of God endures for ever. —Psalm 136:26

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National Indigenous Archbishop Chris Harper says key topics will include working out the procedural structures needed to put its founding documents, Our Way of Life and the Covenant, into practice; discussing an equitable method of picking representatives to Sacred Circle from across Canada; analyzing the funding available to the Indigenous church; and potentially even choosing a new national Indigenous archbishop.

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Anglicans are gearing up for the next meeting of General Synod, which is set to take place June 23-29 at RBC Place in London, Ont. in the diocese of Huron and will include the election of the 15th primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, as well as an update from the primate’s commission on re-imagining the church.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) and The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) join with people and communities around the world in observing the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) on May 17, 2025.

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We are writing to express our outrage regarding Israel’s ongoing attacks on the Palestinian people and to call on the government of Canada to use all diplomatic tools to push for an immediate flow of life-saving food, water, aid, fuel and humanitarian assistance.

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As children of God our Creator, we need to acknowledge our need individually to change and come to new life in Christ, our hope for new growth in the church especially in our prayers for the new leaders being lifted up, and finally our thanks for the new growth that springs up when we offer all we are and have to the glory of the Creator who gave everything for us, the children of Creation.

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The Anglican Church of Canada shares in the joy and sends prayers and well-wishes to our Catholic siblings in Christ on the election and appointment of Pope Leo XIV, the 267th Pope and Bishop of Rome.

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At the spring meeting of the National House of Bishops, the bishops paused to recognize May 5, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQIA+ People, also known as Red Dress Day.

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On behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), we congratulate you on your election as Prime Minister.

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Creator, we give you thanks for all you are and all you bring to us for our visit within your creation. In Jesus, you place the Gospel in the centre of this Sacred Circle through which all of creation is related. You show us the way to live a generous and compassionate life. Give us your strength to live together with respect and commitment as we grow in your Spirit, for you are God, now and forever. Amen.

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Easter is not one day in a year, but a whole season of gazing into the mouth of an empty tomb believing against all odds, and even in our fear, that the rolled-away stone opens a door of promise to a broken world.

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Written and video profiles for the four nominees for the office of Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada are now available.

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With the faithful around the world, we join our hearts in prayer for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome.

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On Palm Sunday, the world awakened to the shattering news that the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, an institution operated in Gaza City by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, had, once again, been struck by Israeli missile attacks.

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