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May 13-15, 2015 – St. Paul’s University, Ottawa, ON   Download a PDF version of these highlights. The Canadian Council of Churches is the broadest and most inclusive ecumenical body in Canada. The Governing Board brings together representatives from Anglican; Evangelical; Free Church; Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox; Protestant; and Catholic member denominations to review and coordinate […]

Last week marked the end of another triennium for the Canadian Council of Churches. With the end of a triennium comes a change in leadership, and in a ceremony at St. Paul’s University last Thursday the CCC saw the induction of a new executive committee for the CCC’s Governing Board. Outgoing CCC President Lt. Col.

The Canadian Council of Churches—in collaboration with KAIROS, Citizens for Public Justice, Project Ploughshares, Women’s Inter-Church Council of Canada, and the Church Council on Justice and Corrections—has compiled a resource for Canadian voters in preparation for the 2015 Canadian federal election. The resource identifies a range of priority issues, offers sample questions you can ask of candidates, and provides

CCC General Secretary Karen Hamilton has written to Minister of Foreign Affairs Rob Nicholson on behalf of CCC members to ask the government of Canada push for a complete ban on nuclear weapons. Read the full text of the letter below, or download a PDF copy. Download the cover letter written by the CCC’s president

April 14, 2015 Project Ploughshares is pleased to announce the appointment of Cesar Jaramillo as Executive Director, effective July 1, 2015. Cesar has spent the past six years as Program Officer at Project Ploughshares, working on such program areas as nuclear disarmament, outer space security, and conventional weapons control. He graduated from the University of

The leaders of the CCC’s 25 member denominations have written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper over the nature of Canada’s involvement in the military response to ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Read an excerpt from the letter below, or download the full letter in English [PDF]. En français. Download a copy of the CCC President’s

Are you a university graduate and a member/adherent of a member church of The Canadian Council of Churches? Looking for an opportunity to contribute to ecumenical work on faith in public life? The Canadian Council of Churches invites applications for an eight-month internship program applications for an eight-month internship program in Ottawa or Toronto, Ontario, beginning in fall 2015. This program,

The Canadian Council of Churches mourns the passing of Bishop André Vallée, former bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Canada (1988-96), Bishop of Hearst (1996-2005) and CCC president from 2000 to 2003. He passed away on Sunday, 28 February 2015, at the age of 84. Bishop Vallée was born in 1930 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Quebec, and was ordained to the priesthood in

Download a PDF of this letter   February 25, 2015 The Right Hon. Stephen Harper Prime Minister House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Fax: 613-941-6900 Email: pm@pm.gc.ca Re: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women National Roundtable Dear Prime Minister, We write today to encourage your support for and participation in the upcoming National Roundtable on

The World Remembers is a unique reconciliation and remembrance project that will display the names of millions of those who lost their lives during World War I. We invite your church to join  the many schools, libraries, museums, and universities already participating. Your church’s display can be simply presented on a laptop, tablet, a wide screen TV,