Aboriginal Day of Prayer
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- 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
Aboriginal Rights
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- Date
- 1987 May 13-15
- Source
- National Executive Council Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 56-05-87
- Date
- 1987 May 13-15
- Record Type
- Resolution 56-05-87
- Mover
- Mr. Kevin Barrett
- Seconder
- Rev. Percy Tait
- Text
- That this National Executive Council express to the Governments of Canada and the Provinces our dismay at the failure of the final scheduled First Ministers' Conference with Aboriginal self-government on the Constitution.
- Further, that we reaffirm our support for the Aboriginal Peoples in their struggle for self-government and commit ourselves to work together to find new ways to entrench the right of self-government in the Constitution. CARRIED #56-05-87
- Subjects
- First Ministers' Conference on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters (1987 : Ottawa, Ont.)
- Indigenous peoples - Canada
- Canada - Constitution
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Government relations - 1951-