Day: November 11, 2010

France receives first group of injured Iraqi Christians

Since 2007, AEMO volunteers — Episcopalians, Iraqi Chaldeans, and French Catholics — have been working alongside the French government, in Baghdad and in France, to provide sanctuary to Iraqi religious minorities whose lives are endangered for reasons of their faith.

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Fire destroys landmark Episcopal church

An early-morning fire destroyed St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in downtown Houma, LA, leaving little more than the historic building’s front steps, part of the steeple and a wall standing.

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ABC writes to primates about meetings

Dr. Williams has called for a reform of the structure of the meetings, suggesting that an elected standing committee be created and the powers and responsibility of the meeting of the communion’s 38 archbishops, presiding bishops and moderators be delineated. – So reports George Conger.

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Soldier bishop

An ex-soldier like the Egyptian pioneer Pachomius, Martin abandoned his military career in Gaul (France) to live a life apart from the world. Around him, probably in the year 361, there gathered the West’s first known monastic community at what seems to have been an ancient local cultic site in a marshy valley, now called Ligugé.

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