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Hundreds of people on the tiny island nation of Dominica are getting much needed items of clothes, shoes, food and medical supplies thanks to the ...

Effie Trinket, the shallow character from the popular movie The Hunger Games, came to Toronto’s City Hall on Jan. 10 for a “reaping” –  choosing ...

On a wintry Saturday morning, lounging on the couch with a hot beverage and the weekend paper is what many folks aspire to do. Not ...

It’s not every day you get asked to build a sedan chair. The elaborate wooden structure, complete with seats, curtains, walls and a roof, was ...

For the past 20 years, volunteers at St. Paul, Lindsay have been teaching local kids about Jesus in an unusual partnership with a nearby elementary ...

To gauge the Rev. Chris Harper’s level of happiness and fulfillment, you have to check the length of his hair. In Plains Cree culture, he ...

Michael Cassabon is the new manager of major gifts and legacy giving for the Anglican Diocese of Toronto Foundation, which provides financial support for the ...

An Anglican-Orthodox group that hasn’t been active since the 1960s is starting up again. The Toronto chapter of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. ...

Canon Giles Bryant remembers his first year as the choirmaster at St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto. It was 1968 and he was succeeding the great Healey ...

Seven years after it first launched, the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign is beginning to wind down. The last chance for parishes and individuals to apply ...

The Diocese of Toronto’s 157th Regular Session of Synod was held on Nov. 24-25 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites in Richmond ...

One of Bob Donald’s final wishes was to hold the signed agreement that officially confirmed the amalgamation of St. David Anglican Church and Holy Cross ...

Christians must go beyond sympathy and prayer and lend concrete aid to those struck by disaster. This was the central theme of a special Saturday ...

Angela Hantoumakos has worked in industry and health care for much of her life, but the opportunity to work for the Church has special meaning. ...

A service of solidarity and support for the people of the Caribbean is being held after hurricanes devastated parts of the region this fall. The ...

The Professional Church Secretaries’ Association’s annual conference took place from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 in Oshawa. Attended by 55 church secretaries and administrators from ...

Faith leaders from across Toronto marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Oct. 17 by occupying City Hall and performing a “pray-in” ...

The Bridge Prison Ministry and Regeneration Outreach Community, two agencies that help ex-prisoners and the poor and homeless in Brampton, marked World Homeless Day on ...

Participants at the diocese’s annual Outreach and Advocacy Conference heard a powerful call to work for equity in the Church and society, and grappled with ...

Parishioners who sit in the back pews at Holy Trinity, Thornhill will be feeling a little warmer this winter, thanks to the efforts of the ...

For the Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo, the American evangelist, sociology professor and activist for global justice, the kingdom of God does not refer to an ...

Like other countries in the Middle East, Syria is a complex multi-sectarian country, once controlled by outside western powers, devastated by wars, permeated by corruption, ...

Lorraine Bell had been attending Trinity Church, Aurora for five years but had always felt that something was missing. She volunteered to help out with ...

When it comes to living out the call to reconciliation with First Nations, St. Saviour, Orono is a small parish that thinks big. The parish ...

“There is no reconciliation without compassion and understanding. You can’t reconcile with me if you don’t know who I am, my story and the story ...

More than 100 people – twice the number hoped – attended Bishop Jenny Andison’s first town hall meeting in York-Credit Valley to hear people’s hopes, ...

The Diocese of Toronto is giving $100,000 to help replenish the national church’s Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation. The fund, which has provided grants ...