Anglican Network in Canada NEWS RELEASE Congregations Evicted from their Church Buildings FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 19 May 2011 Vancouver, BC – The trustees of four Vancouver-area Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) parishes are preparing to vacate their church buildings after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed their case and awarded legal costs to the Anglican [...]
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I haven’t had time to read the stories I’m linking to, but I thought it was important to get them up. Vancouver Sun story National Post story Anglican Journal Story
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From the Globe and Mail: The Supreme Court will not wade into a property fight between the Anglican Church and dissident congregations. Four British Columbia parishes broke away from the mainstream church over the controversial issue of same-sex blessings. The Anglican Church had asked the Supreme Court to end the legal squabble over who owns [...]
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There was a very interesting documentary on CBC radio’s The Current this morning. (You can listen to it here). Briefly, the piece is about money given to the Roman Catholic church by Mexican drug lords. At the centre of the controversy is a new chapel near the Mexican town of Pachuca, about 90 kilometers from [...]
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Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on May 21st, 2011
Read it all here: MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO – Dr. J. I. Packer, 84, of Vancouver, British Columbia, prolific author and professor of theology at Vancouver’s Regent College, will receive the twenty-third annual Leslie K. Tarr Award for outstanding career achievement. Named in honour of its first recipient, the late Leslie K. Tarr, a Toronto journalist, editor, [...]
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The second page of the print edition of “Crosstalk”, the Diocese of Ottawa’s newspaper, contains the following announcement under “clergy news” (the online version is here, but I couldn’t get it to load): The bishop has appointed the Rev. Mark Whittall as the incumbent of the Parish of St. Alban’s Church effective July 3…[he will] [...]
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From the ANiC Newsletter: Welcome to ANiC’s first parish in Calgary ANiC now has a parish in Calgary. The congregation of about 80 families held their first service May 1 in rented premises, leaving behind their former building. They will be taking some time to recalibrate their vision for ministry in their community and consider [...]
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Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Apr 21st, 2011
From here: March 9th, 2011 To the Anglican Network in Canada, I feel compelled by recent events in the Diocese of Montreal to tender my resignation as a member of the Anglican Church of Canada. I refer to the appointment as Dean of our Cathedral, a man living in an intimate relationship with a person [...]
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Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Mar 15th, 2011
From ANiC Communications We have all been transfixed and horrified by the images and news from the devastated nation of Japan. As we pray, please keep these points in mind: · Only about 2% of Japanese are Christian · Some estimate that over 50 million Japanese (out of a population of about 127 million) have [...]
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The Diocese of Ottawa has always maintained that the reason that they came after the parish of St. Alban the Martyr, personally sueing the rector and wardens, was that they had a moral obligation to uphold “the Trust”; that the building was held in trust for the purpose of “upholding of the doctrine and worship [...]
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Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Mar 4th, 2011
There is a CBC interview with Reverend George Sinclair, the Rector of St. Alban’s Anglican Church, and Father Paul Donison, Associate Minister for Discipleship at St. George’s here.
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From the Vancouver Sun The Vancouver-area Anglican diocese is trying to recoup more than $100,000 in court costs from a bitter dispute with conservative dissidents over four church properties. The diocese, led by Bishop Michael Ingham, recently applied to the B.C. Appeal Court to retrieve a portion of the soaring court costs in a case [...]
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Bishop Chapman keeps insisting that St. George’s building was sold to ANiC, which a) is incorrect, and b) in my opinion, even if it were correct, the statement breaks the confidentiality agreement which he signed. The details were to be kept confidential, insofar as possible. (The agreement acknowledges that the parishoners of both parishes had [...]
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From here: Board members of an upscale downtown condominium don’t want a homeless drop-in centre in their neighbour’s backyard. “It’s just the wrong place in our mind to put this,” said Bruce Baker, condo board president of the Galleria at 200 Besserer St. Plans by the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa to move Centre 454 from [...]
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By e-mail: Yesterday, Archbishop Bob Duncan and I wrote Bishop Victoria Matthews – formerly bishop of Edmonton and now bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand – assuring her of our prayer and support for the people of her diocese who have been devastated by a second – far more destructive – earthquake in less than six [...]
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Naturally the Diocese of New Westminster doesn’t want to let the Ottawa negotiated settlement go to waste, so it has reinterpreted the settlement to bolster its own case against the four ANiC parishes with which it has a legal dispute. From the looks of things, the diocese has employed its extensive experience in Biblical reinterpretation [...]
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Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Feb 2nd, 2011
Celebration Church Meeting location: Fellowship Hall, Inniswood Church 460 Yonge Street Barrie L4N 4E2 see map Tel.: 705 999 2911 email contact www.celebrationchurchbarrie.ca Meeting times: Sunday service: 10:30 am Rector: The Rev Brian McVitty
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From the ANiC Newsletter: A proposed settlement over the church buildings of the ANiC congregations, St. Alban’s and St. George’s Ottawa, has been negotiated with their former Anglican Church of Canada diocese. Both churches are now in the process of holding votes to ratify the settlement. The parish of St George’s will vote to ratify [...]
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From here: Parishioners who broke away from an Anglican church in Nanoose Bay two years ago have little desire to reclaim the building they once worshiped in, says the reverend at Christ’s Church Oceanside. Saint Mary’s Anglican Church was reduced to just 14 people when the majority of parishioners, led by Rev. Guy Bellerby, split [...]
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Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Jan 15th, 2011
From here: VANCOUVER – Breakaway members of Anglican churches in the Vancouver area opposed to same-sex blessings want to take their battle for ownership of their church buildings and bank accounts to the Supreme Court of Canada. Earlier this week, the group, aligned with the Anglican Network in Canada, filed an application for leave to [...]
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