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Climate Crisis Is Also a Spiritual Crisis
November 30, 2023 On November 30, The United Church of Canada youth delegation will begin its virtual participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP28, being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, until December 12, 2023. Their participation is already getting the attention of media and is making important connections between […]
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Media Advisory – Wilfrid Laurier University Set to Host World Religions Conference – Canada’s Largest and Longest Running Multi-Faith Event
WATERLOO, ON, Nov. 22, 2023 – Event: Our world is becoming increasingly polarized. May it be politically, religiously, economically, or socially. This is resulting in lack of empathy, intolerance, hatred, conflicts and even wars! This could quickly escalate into a global war and major catastrophe which could be devasting for humanity. How can we heal our […]
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Human Rights Report Presented to the UN Includes Ecumenical Contribution
Canada’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) took place in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday. Supported by the World Council of Churches as an example of global advocacy, Canadian churches who are members of the World Council of Churches prepared a shadow report to this process. The churches who endorse this report are: Anglican […]
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Big Banks Commit to Racial Equity Audits, Thanks to the United Church and SHARE
November 14, 2023 The United Church of Canada and the United Church Pension, as members of the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE), co-filed a shareholder proposal asking the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and the Bank of Montreal (BMO) to conduct racial equity audits. These audits would identify and mitigate the potential harm […]
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International gathering pushes reconciliation forward – Catholic Register
October 5, 2023 Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith says he left a recent international conference on Indigenous-Church relations “very encouraged,” but cautioned the Washington, D.C., event was one step on a long path ahead. “We basically spent the week sharing our experiences around certain themes: what’s been the history of the relationship between the Church and […]
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BISHOP: Saying sorry not enough, time for Canada to do better – Winnipeg Sun
Sep 26, 2023 In Canada, apologies have become something of a national pastime. We’ve said sorry for our environmental shortcomings, for the way we’ve handled the COVID-19 pandemic, for the tragic drug overdose crisis, for the painful history of Indigenous displacement and cultural genocide, and for the haunting legacy of residential schools. We’ve even apologized […]
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Statement on Information Shared by the Stó:lō Nation
The preliminary research findings about the initial number of deaths and the need for further ground research into both the known cemetery and unmarked graves at the Coqualeetza residential institution were outlined by the Stó:lō Nation in a qwōlqwel swáyel, a “day for telling news; talking together day.” The United Church of Canada was an active […]
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MAiD, Indigenous issues on plenary plate – The Catholic Register
September 20, 2023 Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo will be at old home week as the new kid on the block when Canada’s Catholic bishops convene for their annual plenary meetings next week. It will be the first time Leo has attended the gathering wearing a bishop’s mitre after he succeeded Cardinal Thomas Collins last February. […]
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Indigenous reconciliation became a focus of Archbishop’s episcopate – The B.C. Catholic
September 07, 2023 Archbishop Adam Exner became Archbishop of Vancouver at a timely moment as far as Indigenous reconciliation goes, one that would help shape his episcopate. His installation as archbishop on Aug. 15, 1991, took place just weeks after his Oblate congregation made an apology to the Aboriginal peoples of Canada at the Lac […]
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Search for truth over graves is elusive – The Catholic Register
September 7, 2023 The absence of human remains following excavations at Manitoba’s former Pine Creek Indian Residential school has attracted international attention in the form of a highly critical article in the New York Post. “After two years of horror stories about the alleged mass graves of Indigenous children at residential schools across Canada, a series of […]
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