News Updates

News Updates

February 2006

• Washington Bishop Condemns Proposed Nigerian Law, Primate's Role

  The Bishop of Washington, the Rt. Rev. John B. Chane, has lambasted the Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria for endorsing a revision to Nigeria’s sodomy laws which Bishop Chane said will deny “gay citizens the freedoms to assemble and petition their government.”

  Posted on February 28, 2006

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• Central African Primate Mobbed

  The Primate of Central Africa was mobbed on Feb. 22 at the diocesan offices in Lilongwe after he declined to accede to demands made by supporters of an English priest whose election as a diocesan bishop in that province was rejected.

  Posted on February 28, 2006

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• Archbishop Williams: Episcopal Church Should Maintain Consecration Moratorium

  Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has cautioned the Episcopal Church not to end the House of Bishops' moratorium on consecrating non-celibate homosexual priests to the episcopate, until the Communion is of common mind.

  Posted on February 27, 2006

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• Archbishop Williams Urges Shared Sacrifice, Continued Dialogue

  Obedience to God and determined dialogue with one another are the ways forward through the Anglican Communion’s crisis over human sexuality, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

  Posted on February 27, 2006

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• Pension Group Enhances Benefits

  The Church Pension Group will make the first change to the way it calculates benefits in more than 20 years, according to Dennis Sullivan, fund president.

  Posted on February 27, 2006

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• Spoof Commercial Provides Clever Church Welcome

  If you’re an Episcopalian with a computer that receives e-mail and has audio speakers, you may have heard something that sounds a lot like a radio commercial for an upcoming stock car race. Except this one advertises an Episcopal church.

  Posted on February 24, 2006

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• Growing Opposition to Affiliation with Abortion Rights Group

  The 75th General Convention will be asked for an up-or-down vote on the recent decision by the Executive Council to approve membership for the Episcopal Church in an abortion rights organization.

  Posted on February 24, 2006

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• Death Toll Rises in Nigerian Religious Clashes

  A week of sectarian violence across Northern Nigeria has left over 100 dead and 30 churches burned, as Muslim mobs attacked Christians allegedly in protest over the publication of cartoons in a Danish newspaper caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad. The Most Rev. Peter Akinola, Primate of Nigeria, has warned that the violence may escalate if the government does not step in to protect Christians.

  Posted on February 24, 2006

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• Church Joins WCC Condemnation of Iraq War

  The Episcopal Church has joined in an apology made by the U.S. Conference of the World Council of Churches for the foreign, economic and environmental policies of the Bush Administration. The WCC met for its ninth assembly in Porto Allegre, Brazil, from Feb. 14-23.

  Posted on February 23, 2006

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• Vatican Agrees to ARCIC III

  The Roman Catholic Church has agreed to a third round of Anglican Roman Catholic International Consultation talks, according to Bishop Brian Farrell, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity.

  Posted on February 22, 2006

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