News Updates

News Updates

7/5/2005

• Canadian Primate Says Spiritual Questions on Homosexuality Exist Throughout the Communion

  Along with the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church of Canada met with censure after presentations to the Anglican Consultative Council regarding the two provinces’ recent innovations with respect to homosexuality. Canada’s Primate, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, was ill and unable to deliver an informal series of speeches and discussions exploring the current crisis within the Anglican Communion, scheduled the week after the ACC presentation. Instead, the Ven. Paul Feheley, principal secretary to Archbishop Hutchison, delivered the speeches by proxy.

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• Hines Award Winner Preaches at National Cathedral

  The 2004 John Hines Award recipient, the Rev. William J. Danaher Jr., preached at the 11 a.m. service this morning at Washington National Cathedral. For his sermon, The Body of Christ and the Body Politic, he focused on what it means to be a Christian citizen as well as a Christian disciple, two things that many Christians believe contradict each other.

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• Episcopalians Seek to Remind World Leaders of the Poor

  With the leaders of world’s most powerful nations set to gather for a three-day summit in Scotland on Wednesday, Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation is asking supporters to remind the “Group of Eight” of their reasonability to the people who live in less-developed countries.

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• Atlanta Bishop Ordains in Tanzania

  In addition to touring refugee camps and church ministries, the Rt. Rev. J. Neil Alexander, Bishop of Atlanta, ordained the Rev. Sandy McCann to the priesthood yesterday in Tanzania.

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• Brazilian Province Seeks Covenant, Aid from U.S. Church

  The Anglican Province of Brazil is seeking a covenant with the Episcopal Church, and a report recently submitted to the national Executive Council includes a proposal for a “substantial mission fund,” to be used for expansion of ministry throughout the South American country.

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