News Updates

News Updates

July 2007

• Revised Network Charter Retains Clause Acceding to TEC Constitution

  Delegates to the annual council meeting of the Anglican Communion Network declined removing the organization from under the authority of the constitution of the General Convention of The Episcopal Church during a plenary session July 31.

  Posted on July 31, 2007

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• Bishop Duncan: Fall HOB Meeting is Windsor Bishops' 'Last Stand'

  As delegates to the Anglican Communion Network gather for the annual council meeting July 30-31 at St. Vincent’s Cathedral in Bedford, Texas, the Network remains officially committed to The Episcopal Church, but few expect that situation to continue much longer.

  Posted on July 31, 2007

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• American Province 'Lost,' Network Asserts

  The fourth annual council meeting of the Anglican Communion Network began July 30 with a somber address in which the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh and moderator of the Network, stressed that reforming The Episcopal Church is a lost cause. Later, during a question-and-answer session, he criticized the Archbishop of Canterbury for not intervening more forcefully.

  Posted on July 31, 2007

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• Christian Unity

  Vatican document reiterates where one church is gathered. (By Christopher Wells)

  Posted on July 30, 2007

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• English Bishops Divided over Episcopal Church's Lambeth Participation

  If The Episcopal Church does not respond affirmatively to the primates’ February communiqué by the Sept. 30 deadline, as many as 60 percent of the Church of England's 114 bishops would share a sense of solidarity if bishops from the Global South declined to attend, according to the Rt. Rev Michael Scott-Joynt, Bishop of Winchester.

  Posted on July 27, 2007

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• Bishop of Idaho Announces Retirement Plans

  The Rt. Rev. Harry Bainbridge announced his intention to retire as Bishop of Idaho upon the consecration of his successor, tentatively scheduled for November 2008.

  Posted on July 27, 2007

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• Technology Aids Care for Creation

  Communication tools facilitate awareness of the environment-spirituality connection. (By Charles Morello, Jr.)

  Posted on July 26, 2007

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• Archbishop Sentamu Links Communion Ties to Lambeth Attendance

  The Archbishop of York has urged Anglican bishops from the Global South not to boycott next year’s Lambeth Conference, telling a British newspaper that by withdrawing they would be removing themselves from the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on July 26, 2007

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• Second Attempt Made on Life of Nigerian Bishop

  The life of the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Kwashi, Bishop of Jos in the Anglican Church of Nigeria, was spared for the second time July 24 after a half dozen armed men invaded Bishopscourt, his residence.

  Posted on July 26, 2007

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• Central New York Defends Its Defiance of Court Order

  The Diocese of Central New York has defended its decision not to comply with an ecclesiastical court order in the trial of the Rev. David Bollinger, former rector of St. Paul’s Church, Owego, who was facing presentment charges.

  Posted on July 25, 2007

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