The Sudanese are voting this weekend in their first democratic elections in the past quarter century. The voters are electing their next president and the
There’s an old tradition amongst the Orthodox Churches of sharing jokes during Easter season in honor of the great “trick” that God pulled on Death
Oddly enough, for Easter Week, most of the stories featuring the ministry of the Episcopal Church’s congregations seem to focus on our outreach to active duty and retired military personnel. There are stories of congregations taking up special collections for those deployed overseas, supporting their families left here at home and building housing for those living on the street.
Canons Barlowe, Hayashi, Quevedo-Bosch and Sulerud are named.
The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI is willing to hold new meetings with victims of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests. Meanwhile, AP has turns up more evidence of what the future pope know, and when he knew it.
News reports are hinting that the proposed anti-gay legislation proposed by a member of the parliament in Uganda may be dead. Still clergy around Africa, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, protest the legislation and are leading the fight against draconian anti-gay laws across the continent.
When disaster strikes, it usually highlights the faults lines of poverty and class that already existed in a society. We saw this at work in New Orleans after Katrina, but never has this been more apparent than in Haiti.
(Update: Apparently Orombi has not resigned, and apologizes for the confusion. See the first comment to this post.)
Ugandan Archbishop Henry Orombi has resigned from the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates Meeting and Anglican Consultative Council. He never came to any of the meeting of the group.
Bishop Thomas Breidenthal of Southern Ohio has issued a fifteen page document on “same gender unions,” including theological rationale, policies, educational resources, and a trial liturgy.
“The Christianity both of them were shaped by is, on the whole, a very, very Western thing,” said Williams.