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- AIDS (Disease) - Burundi
- A New Covenant
Aboriginal Day of Prayer
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official1329
- Date
- 1987 February 16-20
- Source
- House of Bishops Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 1-2-87
- Mover
- Bishop Morgan
- Seconder
- Archbishop Hambidge
- Prologue
- Bishop Morgan drew attention to the document "The New Covenant" stating that appeals have been received from native people that the Sunday before the First Minister's Conference be designated a Day of Prayer.
- Text
- That this House of Bishops respond to the request of Native leaders for the Churches to name a Day of Prayer to precede the final First Ministers' Conference to be held on March 26-27, by designating Sunday, March 22, as a Day of Prayer for Aboriginal Peoples:
- And that we commend the document entitled "A New Covenant" prepared as a Pastoral Statement by leaders of the Christian Churches to be used as a focus for this Day of Prayer. CARRIED
- Subjects
- Day of Prayer for Aboriginal Peoples (22 March 1987)
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Government relations - 1951-
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- First Ministers' Conference on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters (1987 : Ottawa, Ont.)
- A New Covenant
- Special Sundays
Report of Program Committee - Project North
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official714
- Date
- 1988 November 16-18
- Source
- National Executive Council. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 54-11-88
- Date
- 1988 November 16-18
- Record Type
- Resolution 54-11-88
- Mover
- Dr. L.L. Whytehead
- Seconder
- Rev. M.C. Ingham
- Prologue
- Since the termination of Project North in 1987, further evaluation and consultation between the churches in Canada has led to a new coalition on aboriginal justice concerns. This is the result of discussion between the churches, network groups, and native organizations. It shifts the focus of the former Project North to include justice issues for native people all over Canada and is based upon the church leaders' recent statement: "A New Covenant".
- Text
- That this National Executive Council support and participate fully in the new coalition: Project North - Ecumenical Coalition for Aboriginal Justice; and request the Program Committee to appoint two representatives from the Anglican Church of Canada to its Steering Committee. CARRIED #54-11-88
- Subjects
- Project North
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada
- Criminal justice, Administration of - Canada - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration - Canada
- A New Covenant
- Coalitions - Canada
A statement from the Primate on World AIDS, 2009
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official9631
- Date
- 2009 December 1
- Source
- Primate's Office
- Record Type
- Statement
- Text
- Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Anglican Church of Canada
- December 01, 2009 - An interview with the Rev. Patricia Sawo, a church leader and mother living with HIV in Kenya inspired Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to entitle his World Aids Day Message A Space for Hope. Patricia says of her church "My congregation knows about my status and people in my church know that this is a place where, if they come with HIV, they can be loved." The Archbishop says "when the Church is doing its job, it is providing space for people to face themselves, to be themselves, and to cope with the future."
- On my trip to Burundi in February, I saw numerous examples of that kind of space. Let me cite just two. In the heart of the city of Bujumbura there is an HIV/AIDS clinic. Above the main entrance of the administration building is a sign stating that the building was renovated though a gift of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) of the Anglican Church of Canada. That gift inspired other churches in the city to make contributions to expand the services of this clinic which serves teens and young adults who have been orphaned through AIDS. Most of them live on the street and their life is very rough. The clinic is a haven where they can learn about HIV/AIDS, get tested and if necessary receive treatment and counseling. As the Archbishop says, they can "face themselves, be themselves, and cope with the future."
- Up in the hills, "in the bush" as Burundians say, in the village of Bitare, I and Cheryl Curtis (Executive Director of PWRDF) and Maureen Bailey (Youth Council, PWRDF) were invited to assist local people in laying the foundation stone for a new HIV/AIDS clinic. It was very humbling to kneel down and share in that work as hundreds of people looked on and sang and prayed for God's blessing on this project. The building is now complete and providing services to hundreds of people in Bitare and a number of surrounding villages. Individuals and families are feeling support and care. Lives are being changed and hope is rising like the glory of a new day.
- This coming Sunday, the second in Advent, I ask that throughout the Church, prayers of special intent for those living with HIV/AIDS be included in the Prayers of the People. Pray for their caregivers and for their doctors and nurses and clergy. Pray especially for the work of the Mother's Union in Africa and their deep and steadfast commitment to helping those who are living with AIDS and those who have been widowed and orphaned through AIDS, and those who are caring for their grandchildren. Pray for those engaged in education about healthy sexuality and the prevention of AIDS. And as we pray for the eradication of the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, pray also for that "space" the Church is called to provide where people can be welcomed and free to face themselves and be themselves without fear of rejection; where through loving care and support they can cope with their future. This calling is after the very example of Our Lord who reached out and "touched" (Mark 1: 40-41) the sick with love and mercy.
- I encourage one and all to pray, to support the continuing work with HIV/AIDS, and to stand with all those who are pressuring world leaders, in the words of one of the Millennium Development Goals, "to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases." I issue this call in the name of him whose Advent sets us free, whose love brings healing and hope to all.
- Subjects
- World AIDS Day
- AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Burundi
- AIDS (Disease) - Africa
- AIDS (Disease) - Burundi