What are people of faith saying about genetic technologies? How do I develop an informed, nuanced, faith-based perspective on emerging issues? These questions and more will be addressed in Navigating Faith and Genetics, an upcoming course by the Council’s Faith and Life Sciences Reference Group. In this online, five-week learning experience, participants will explore […]
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The Council’s Commission on Justice and Peace deplores the violence and cycle of reprisals in Palestine and Israel that is leading to thousands of lives lost and even more death, suffering, and trauma to come. We call on Christian communities across Canada to be salt and light in a way that opens up space to
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This Easter season, the media headlines are especially distressing: 18 million people facing severe food insecurity in Sudan with little humanitarian aid on the way, mostly absent from our awareness. More than 100,000 Armenians uprooted from their history, culture and homes. Hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians dead, dying, and injured in a war
The Commission on Justice and Peace is pleased to announce the launch of a new archive website: justiceandpeace.ca! This digital library is a culmination of over 25 years of dedicated work, ecumenical dialogue, communal prayer, bible study, and advocacy efforts among members of the Commission on Justice and Peace, The Canadian Council of Churches (the
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Although many celebrations of the 2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Jan 18-25, 2024) are now behind us, we can continue to pray for Christian unity at any time of year. It is in this spirit that we’d like to share a special homily the Council’s General Secretary Pastor Peter Noteboom delivered at several
Today is the first day of the 2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18-25, 2024)! The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an annual ecumenical celebration. Christians around the world are invited to pray for the unity of all Christians, to reflect on scripture together, to participate in jointly-organized ecumenical services, and
Dear friends, Life on planet earth seems more volatile than ever: Climate change is eroding our confidence in a predictable future. We live with the menacing reality of infectious diseases and pandemics which can sweep across continents in a flash. In many countries, food insecurity and the lack of clean water have led people to
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Dear friends of the Council, Recently, as Dr. Mary Marrocco was finishing her long tenure with the Council, she shared a reflection that stuck with me: So much of what the Council does is predicated on seeking that life-giving tension between discipline and discernment, of being humble and willing to sit with the questions that
The Council – in coordination with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Peace & Reconciliation Network – invites its members, friends, and Christians in Canada to a special online hour of prayer for peace on November 16, 2023 (8-9PM EST). As attention understandably turns to the tragedy developing in Israel and Gaza and Christians
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Last week, Salt and Light Media featured a thoughtful article about this summer’s Forum on Dialogues by the Rev. Dr. Scott Sharman, who serves on the Council’s Commission on Faith and Witness. The great damage inflicted among Indigenous Peoples by the colonizing projects in North America/Turtle Island, including the far too frequent complicity of the
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