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This section will contain news from General Synod including daily reports, features, commentary, news releases, Anglican Journal and MinistryMatters articles.Webcast a success
TORONTO, Ont., July 13, 2001 - While the meeting of General Synod was limited to about 400 members and visitors who packed the hall at the University of Waterloo, hundreds, perhaps thousands more people virtually visited synod via a broadcast on the World Wide Web.
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Church adopts human rights principles
WATERLOO, Ont., July 11, 2001 - The church will now have to follow general principles of human rights in its dealings with anyone they minister to or employ after the General Synod adopted a document calling for fair treatment of all.
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Communion wine okay, but watch those 'acts of licentiousness'
WATERLOO, Ont., July 11, 2001 - Eileen Scully laughed out loud when she saw the headline of the advance General Synod story about the joint service to be held with the Lutherans. "Joint synod service: on ice, with a twist", read the headline.
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Native bishop forgives church, primate
WATERLOO, Ont., July 10, 2001 - Bishop Gordon Beardy of Keewatin formally forgave the church for its past dealings with indigenous peoples at a native healing ceremony during the meeting of the General Synod.
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General synod averts showdown with federal government
Waterloo Ontario - Leadership of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC), meeting here for the 36th session of General Synod, voted by a narrow majority today to defer decision on a resolution directing General Synod to break off talks with the federal government to express "dissatisfaction and disappointment" over the slow pace of negotiations with the federal government in resolving the ongoing litigation over residential schools.
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Lutheran dialogue veteran elected as Synod officer
WATERLOO, Ont., July 8, 2001 - Synod elected Archdeacon James Cowan as the deputy prolocutor for the new triennium.
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Closer ties with Lutherans brings windfall to Anglicans
WATERLOO, Ont., July 8, 2001 - One happy fringe benefit of the closer ties forged by Anglicans and Lutherans is a $50,000 grant to the Anglican Church of Canada made by a Lutheran insurance company.
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Joint worship features dancing bishops and shaking maracas
WATERLOO, Ont., July 8, 2001 - Two denominations came together here in a joint worship celebration, making real the biblical concept of one bread, one body.
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Anglican-Lutheran Joint Communion Agreement
Waterloo Ontario, 8 July 2001 - An exuberant service of joint worship between Anglicans and Lutherans here today marked the capstone of celebrations concluding nearly two decades of discussions culminating in this week's historic entente between Canada's two largest episcopally-based protestant religious denominations.
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Bishop apologizes to gays for church's inaction
WATERLOO, Ont., July 7, 2001 - Bishop Michael Ingham of New Westminster has apologized to gay and lesbian Anglicans for how slowly the church is moving on deciding how to minister to them.
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Synod elects Ontario layperson as prolocutor
WATERLOO, Ont., July 6, 2001 - Dorothy Davies-Flindall, a well-known member of many national and diocesan church committees, was elected prolocutor of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada.
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Anglicans vote for full communion with Lutherans
WATERLOO, Ont., July 6, 2001 - Rejoicing Anglicans could not be denied the opportunity to express their joy.
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Transcript of Bishop Steven Charleston's sermon
- I wanted to say as I began my sermon that a few of you may have heard me preach before, and if you have, you know that I always try to speak from the heart and to let the words come to me under the anointing of the Holy Spirit
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Presidential Address
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, July 5, 2001 - I greet you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Greetings first of all to you who have come from every part of this wonderful land - chosen by your diocese as delegates to this Synod. I trust that you feel a deep loyalty to and pride in your local church and your diocese
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'The past is a reality'
WATERLOO, Ont., July 5, 2001 - "Come and see," said the bishop. And so began General Synod, with a rousing opening worship in a local Roman Catholic church. The meeting, from July 4-11, is in Waterloo, Ont.
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Primate not yet willing to let go the word 'partner'
WATERLOO, Ont., July 5, 2001 - It is doubtful that the national church's Partnerships department would change its name to "Friendships" but the Anglican primate of the raised the alternative to the partnerships concept in his opening address to General Synod.
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General Synod of Anglican Church Convenes 36th Meeting
Waterloo, Ontario, 5 July 2001 - General Synod, the national body of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC), commenced its formal week-long proceedings today with a message of hope from a prominent U.S. theologian, who said the 2.2 million-member Protestant denomination, "far from teetering on the brink of ruin, is standing on the threshold of glory."
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Looking for the webcast?
- The General Synod webcast will be live, for the duration of the week-long synod, from July 4-11, and will consist of raw footage, without editing. We hope to offer archived footage of some of the key events, debates and votes after synod is over.
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Church drops Talisman from investments
TORONTO, June 27, 2001 - One resolution expected to generate debate at the meeting of the General Synod will likely change dramatically in the wake of the pension committee's decision to pull its investments out of a controversial oil company.
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'We go back and forth, it's no big deal'
WEST NORTH, N.S. - Besides sharing the name of the same saint, the Anglican and Lutheran churches in West Northfield, Nova Scotia, share equal billing on a highway sign that points the way to the two buildings.
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Diocese helps synod go digital
June 21, 2001 - Thanks to a grant to the national church website from the diocese of Montreal, web surfers anywhere in the world will be able to see on their computer monitors exactly what synod delegates are seeing on the screen of the large plenary hall, the site for most of the business of synod.
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Deputy Prime Minister declines invitation to address Synod
TORONTO, Ont., June 13, 2001 - Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray has turned down an invitation from Archbishop Michael Peers to address the meeting of General Synod about his government's negotiations with the churches involved in residential schools litigation.
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Church invites Deputy Prime Minister to address Synod
TORONTO, Ont., June 12, 2001 - Archbishop Michael Peers has invited Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray to the meeting of General Synod to talk about his government's negotiations with the churches involved in residential schools litigation.
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Joint synod service: on ice, with a twist
WATERLOO, Ont., June 12, 2001 - Take one large choir, 32 communion stations with commemorative chalice and paten sets crafted by area potters, a series of hand-made banners decorating one large hockey rink (it doesn't get any more Canadian than that) and you have a church service with enough pomp and pageantry to mark an important milestone on two national churches' ecumenical journey.
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