Aboriginal Day of Prayer

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 of motion: 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