by Sean Reilly | Jun 14, 2008
Church leaders in Canada hope action will follow a public apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to victims of a situation whereby aboriginal children were placed in residential schools run by churches under a government policy of enforced assimilation –...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 12, 2008
The Canadian Government has followed churches and apologised for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children to attend state-funded Christian boarding schools aimed at assimilating them. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the apology in parliament in Ottawa, in front of...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 28, 2008
A Canadian church magazine has become the first North American sponsor of a travelling exhibit of the life and work of natural scientist Charles Darwin – writes Kristine Greenaway Darwin’s theory of the evolution of species has long been an occasion of...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 3, 2008
Two major religious organizations, one Jewish and the other Muslim, have unveiled an interfaith dialogue project intended to reach hundreds of thousands of their members across the United States and Canada – writes Cheryl Heckler. At its biennial convention in...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 1, 2007
Progressive Anglicans in Canada and the United States are pushing ahead with local procedures for blessing lesbian and gay people in the church. The US Episcopal Diocese of California has authorised the use of three trial rites for same-sex unions. The California...
