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Begun the Christmas war has

November 12, 2010 12 Comments

Every year we’ve come to count on someone arguing that the secular world is taking Christ out of Christmas – and calling on true Christians to stand up *this* year. But this year something else is happening. Atheists are actually reaching out to Humanists by targeting Christians (and Muslims) with the hope that people will turn away from aggressive religious messages and to a more mellow sort of spirituality.

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2009 Episcopal Church statistics now online

November 12, 2010 No Comments

The Office of Public Affairs of the Episcopal Church has sent notice that the 2009 parochial report statistics have been posted. “The report shows 2,175,616 baptized members of The Episcopal Church for 2009, with an Average Sunday Attendance (ASA) of 724,789.”

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France receives first group of injured Iraqi Christians

November 11, 2010 No Comments

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

November 11, 2010 No Comments

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

November 11, 2010 23 Comments

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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