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Year: 2009

The Primates’ Communique from Alexandria

February 5, 2009 4 Comments

There are continuing deep differences especially over the issues of the election of bishops in same-gender unions, Rites of Blessing for same-sex unions, and on cross-border interventions. The moratoria, requested by the Windsor Report and reaffirmed by the majority of bishops at the Lambeth Conference, were much discussed. If a way forward is to be found and mutual trust to be re-established, it is imperative that further aggravation and acts which cause offence, misunderstanding or hostility cease.

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Primates meeting drawing to a close

February 5, 2009 3 Comments

The Primates of the Anglican Communion have thus far refrained from committing news at their meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, and that is all to the good. But there is still one day to go.

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Gather us in

February 5, 2009 No Comments

Gather us in, Thou love that fillest all;

Gather our rival faiths within thy fold.

Rend each man’s temple-veil and bid it fall,

That we may know that Thou hast been of old;

Gather us in.

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Is individualism sustainable? Is it Christian?

February 5, 2009 4 Comments

In the Zohar, God says to Noah: “Foolish shepherd! I lingered with you and spoke to you at length so that you would ask mercy for the world! But as soon as you heard that you would be safe in the ark, the evil of the world did not touch your heart. You built the ark and saved yourself. Now that the world has been destroyed you open your mouth to utter questions and pleas.”

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Making money doing good

February 4, 2009 No Comments

The Vestergaard-Frandsen Company, in Denmark, has found solving health problems and making products for the world’s poorest and most unhealthy places can both save lives

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Bennison loses appeal

February 4, 2009 No Comments

An Episcopal Church panel announced on Wednesday that it had upheld its decision to defrock a bishop from Pennsylvania for covering up his brother’s sexual assaults of a teenage girl in the 1970s.

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Sudan Archbishop to Primates: do not abandon us

February 4, 2009 No Comments

Calling on the Anglican Communion “not to abandon the people of Sudan in this time of danger and uncertainty,” Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul appealed to his fellow primates February 4 saying that the Church in Sudan needs “urgent support for the work of relief, rehabilitation and resettlement.”

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Pope says holocaust denier must recant

February 4, 2009 No Comments

Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson must “unequivocally and publicly” change his views before he can be admitted to office in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said Wednesday.

Also, in the news, a Vatican official says no to Anglican prelature idea.

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