+Sean Rowe receives more reports of sexual abuse
An update from the Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe, bishop of NW Pennsylvania (via email):
An update from the Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe, bishop of NW Pennsylvania (via email):
Humanitarian agencies are seeing promising signs of regaining space and acceptance from Taliban insurgents while attacks against NGO workers have reduced significantly over the past six months.
…let us not breed unnecessary suspicion against one another but instead seek for the common goal of a peaceful and just society. Remember a peaceful society is the right of every one regardless of their age, race, gender or religious inclination. ++Orombi
Roundup of the news following the General Synod decision on women in the episcopacy and a timeline of what happens next.
With spilled oil now reaching all the Gulf States, the White House this week demanded more answers from BP. Meanwhile, a prominent ethicist is calling for a much deeper national discussion about the moral implications of the spill.
At the Crown Nominations Commission’s last meeting, where Dr John was put on the initial shortlist of candidates for the Southwark job, neither archbishop blocked his name. Liberals make up a majority of the commission and he is considered by many to be the outstanding candidate after a successful period in charge of St Albans cathedral.
The Anglican Archbishop of Southern Africa, the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, addressed the conflict in the Middle East at a United Nations meeting this week:
Many US churches are reflecting on the the relationship of church and state and celebrating freedom of worship on this weekend where Independence Day falls
… as an Episcopalian who loves the Anglican Communion, I am proud that the Episcopal Church may be the last best hope in Catholic Christianity for the dispossessed, the different and those who are loathed simply for being who they are.