News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. June 8, 1964 [XXII-19]
CANADIAN ANGLICANS CONTRIBUTE $50, 000 TO SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Hungry youngsters in Kwun Ton, a teeming new industrial area of Hong Kong, will benefit from one of several projects in South-East Asia to be assisted by the World Mission Fund of the Anglican Church of Canada. Grants will also be made to various dioceses for training of indigenous clergy and the erection of churches and mission houses.
More than $50, 000 of the $500, 000 to be raised by Canadian Anglicans through the fund in 1964 has been set aside for the area covered by the South-East Asia Council. Some $300,000 has been earmarked for the five churches of the Anglican Communion in Africa and the remaining $150, 000 will take the form of token grants to India, Latin America and the Caribbean area.
The Canadian Church has undertaken to raise $500, 000 annually for five years, over and above its regular budget, to assist churches in the developing countries.
$55,156.97 CONTRIBUTED TO ALASKA SO FAR
Episcopalians, through the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, have contributed $55,156.97, as of May 28, to aid victims of the Alaskan earthquake.
In a letter to the Rev. Canon Almon R. Pepper, director of the Department of Christian Social Relations, Bishop Gordon, Missionary Bishop of Alaska, stated that this money would be used primarily to help families that have lost their homes and possessions rebuild.
He also expressed his gratitude to all who responded.