[Friday].. the Trustees of four Vancouver-area Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) churches filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, the BC Court of Appeal decision (November 15, 2010) which removed their right to use their church buildings and awarded the church properties to the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) Diocese of New Westminster. The four churches are St John’s (Shaughnessy), St Matthews (Abbotsford), Good Shepherd (Vancouver), and St Matthias & St Luke’s (Vancouver).
The Anglican Communion is in the midst of a worldwide split due to deep and profound theological differences between the more liberal and conservative (or orthodox) member churches. ANiC members, while in the minority in Canada, are theologically aligned with the worldwide majority.