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.
A pair of climate change experts have discovered two less costly carbon-reducing options to alternative fuels, carbon storage, and forest conservation. $1 million on a
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.
November 11, 1992 Church of England votes for women priests. Women fighting for the right to be Anglican priests are celebrating a narrow victory. After
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.
For any long-suffering church organists in need of a chuckle and who have not already seen the video, “The Wedding Consultation”, follow this link.
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.
My father was a Forward Observer for the 590th Field Artillery Battalion, a unit of the 106th ‘Golden Lions’ which fought in the WWII Battle of the Bulge. In dad’s war journal, written after he returned, are the following entries: December 16, 1944: All hell breaks loose. The next entry is dated April 4, 1945: We are freed.
There is no doubt that the Son of God took our human nature into so close a union with himself that one and the same Christ is present, not only in the firstborn of all creation, but in all his saints as well. And so all that the Son of God did and taught for the world’s reconciliation is not for us simply a matter of past history. Here and now we experience his power at work among us.
A hearing is set for Friday November 12 to determine procedures and set the trial schedule. Among the questions is whether the nine cases will be consolidated. The parties anticipate the briefing and trial period to be April – June 2011.