- All Records
- Ms. P. Cummine
Canadian Government Development Assistance
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official7224
- Date
- 1998 May 21-29
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Act 75
- Mover
- Ms. P. Cummine
- Seconder
- Archdeacon S. Pike
- Prologue
- The referred, revised resolution was returned. [See page 50]
- Text
- That the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada:
- 1. Express to the Government of Canada its concern for the decrease in foreign aid spending;
- 2. Urge the Government of Canada to renew its commitment contained in its statement "Canada in the World", to make progress towards the Official Development Assistance target of 0.7% of GNP but urges that this commitment not be qualified by the words "when Canada's fiscal situation permits";
- 3. Urge the Government of Canada to set out a framework for reforming Official Development Assistance (ODA) focusing on the elimination of poverty and including a timetable for renewed ODA growth. CARRIED Act 75
- Notes
- Abstentions were noted from Chancellor David Wright, Captain Baxter Park, Captain Todd Meaker, Mr. Bryan Campbell and Canon Andrew Gates.
- Subjects
- Economic assistance, Canadian
- Economic assistance - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Official Development Assistance (ODA)
- Economic justice - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Poverty - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Date
- 1998 May 21-29
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Act 37
- Mover
- Ms. P. Cummine
- Seconder
- Archdeacon S. Pike
- Text
- That the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada:
- 1. Urge the Government of Canada to support the recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Commission which calls for the Colombian government to adopt immediate measures to disband paramilitary groups and to rescind the legalization of the Rural Security Cooperatives, the CONVIVIR; and to do all it can to support the efforts of the Colombian people to bring a just end to the internal armed conflict; and
- 2. Call on the Government of Canada to adopt a coherent policy with respect to Colombia, placing demonstrated improvements in the human rights situation at the centre of all its bilateral relations. CARRIED Act 37
- Notes
- Abstentions were noted from Chancellor David Wright, Captain Baxter Park, Captain Todd Meaker, Mr. Bryan Campbell and Canon Andrew Gates.
- Subjects
- Colombia - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Human rights - Colombia
- Colombia - Politics and government - 1974-
- Canada - Foreign relations - Colombia
- Date
- 1998 May 21-29
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Act 38
- Mover
- Ms. P. Cummine
- Seconder
- Archdeacon S. Pike
- Text
- That the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada:
- 1. Commend the Government of Canada for:
- a) its opposition to the Helms Burton Act; and
- b) its continuing resistance to pressure to join the USA embargo directed at Cuba; and
- 2. Urge the Government of Canada through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
- b) to mediate between Cuba and the United States with a view to normalizing the relationships; and
- c) to intensify efforts to promote the entry of Cuba into the Organization of American States. CARRIED Act 38
- Notes
- Abstentions were noted from Chancellor David Wright, Captain Baxter Park, Captain Todd Meaker, Mr. Bryan Campbell and Canon Andrew Gates.
- Subjects
- Cuba - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Embargo - Cuba
- United States - Foreign relations - Cuba
Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women
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- Date
- 1998 May 21-29
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Act 47
- Mover
- Mrs. D. Davies-Flindall
- Seconder
- Ms. P. Cummine
- Text
- That this General Synod encourage participation in "Daring Hope" (August 27-30, 1998, in Guelph), the concluding celebration of the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Decade in Solidarity with Women, 1988-1998, and urge the Church to reflect on the learnings of this decade and to pray for continued initiatives. CARRIED WITHOUT DEBATE Act 47
- Subjects
- Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women (1988-1998) - Canada
- Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women (1988-1998) - Anglican Church of Canada
- Daring Hope (1998 : Guelph ON)
- Women in Christianity - Congresses
- Women - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Women - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches
- Date
- 1998 May 21-29
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Act 40
- Mover
- Archbishop B. Curtis
- Seconder
- Ms. P. Cummine
- Text
- That this General Synod:
- 1. Communicate to our partners in the Sudan (the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, the Sudan Council of Churches, and the New Sudan Council of Churches) our ongoing compassion and solidarity in their suffering;
- 2. Condemn Human Rights abuses by all parties to the conflict in Sudan, but particularly by the Government of Sudan, in view of overwhelming evidence of indiscriminate violence against civilians (particularly the aerial bombardment of civilians in southern and northeastern Sudan and in the Nuba Mountains), the denial of humanitarian assistance to civilian populations, incidents of chattel slavery, and the oppression of women.
- 3. Request the General Secretary to call upon the Canadian government and the United Nations to support actively efforts that will bring a just peace for all peoples of the Sudan.
- Amendment
- The mover and seconder agreed to include in item #1 the wording "including the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Sudan".
- The amended resolution was then put and - CARRIED AS AMENDED. Act 40
- Notes
- Abstentions were noted from Chancellor David Wright, Captain Baxter Park, Captain Todd Meaker, Mr. Bryan Campbell and Canon Andrew Gates.
- Item #1 above now reads:
- 1. Communicate to our partners in the Sudan (the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, the Sudan Council of Churches and the New Sudan Council of Churches, including the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Sudan), our ongoing compassion and solidarity in their suffering;
- Subjects
- Sudan - History - Civil war, 1983-2005
- Sudan - Politics and government - 1985-
- Sudan - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Human rights - Sudan