News Updates

News Updates

9/6/2006

• Executive Council and Interim Bodies to Hold First Meetings in November

  Executive Council and most of the so-called interim committees, commissions and boards (which facilitate the work of General Convention when it is not in session) recently announced the date and location for their first meeting since the June 21 conclusion of the 75th General Convention.

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• New Orleans Church Helps Neighborhood Save Itself

  One year after Hurricane Katrina swamped the nave of the Church of the Annunciation and devastated the surrounding neighborhood known as Broadmoor in New Orleans, the church is playing a central role in assuring the neighborhood’s future.

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• Primate of Uganda Proposes Altering Constitution

  The Most Rev. Henry Orombi, Primate of the Church of Uganda, has proposed altering the provincial constitution to clarify its “biblical and evangelical character” within the Anglican Communion. If approved, the measure would become effective in 2008 and would formalize the 2003 declaration of “broken communion” with The Episcopal Church, extending the breach to encompass the entire progressive wing of the Communion.

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• Three Bishops Denounce Visit to Cathedral by Former Iranian President

  Calling Iran a “threat not only to our own nation, but to world peace itself,” the bishops of Northern Indiana, Rhode Island and Southwest Florida have written a letter of protest to the Bishop of Washington and the Dean of Washington National Cathedral over the speech to be given there on Sept. 7 by Muhammad Khatami, the former president of Iran.

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• Cuban Bishop Visits South Florida Church

  The move to improve parish-to-parish relationships between Episcopal churches in South Florida and Cuba received an unexpected jump start earlier this year when a member of St. Philip’s, Coral Gables, Fla., anonymously offered $60,000 to help rebuild Holy Trinity Church in Bermeja, a small sugar-cane farming town southeast of Havana. The Rt. Rev. Miguel Tamayo, Bishop of Cuba, visited St. Philip’s Aug. 27 to thank the congregation.

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• Archbishop of York to Represent England at Primates’ Meeting

  The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev. John Sentamu is to represent the Church of England at the primates’ meetings under a proposal put forward by the Primates’ Standing Committee.

  Posted on September 6, 2006

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