Brutal ice flows and raging flood water are wreaking havoc in small, isolated villages scattered along the Yukon River causing some residents of remote Alaskan areas to be evacuated to safety.
The Quinnipiac University Poll shows that say Catholic voters favor keeping Obama on the program by a margin of 60-34–even higher than the general public, which approves of the invitation by 56-31 percent. The poll also surveyed Catholics on their views of legal abortion with 52% saying keep it legal.
The Archbishop of Sudan, the Most Rev. Dr. Daniel Deng Bul Yak, requested that she be withdrawn from that mission field permanently.
Episcopal Church leaders held a webcast previewing General Convention yesterday, May 13. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson, General Convention
Several members of the Anglican Consultative Council describing themselves as Global South delegates have issued a “Response to ACC-14 in Jamaica.”
The changes are a response to the recession-led decline in the market demand for books for a general audience, and the technology-led expansion of electronic means of distributing books and materials supporting church life. The changes include in the layoff of 9 employees.
Bishop Hollingsworth spoke recently at an interfaith service of thanksgiving for Domestic Partner Registry in Cleveland. His remarks are now available.
That’s what President Obama said to his director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships when he saw the Presiding Bishop’s crosier.
The UMC’s 50 active U.S. bishops voted to give up their planned pay raises for next year and instead reduce their salaries to the 2008 level, dropping their annual pay from $125,650 to $121,000. “The current global crisis has uncovered our hesitancy to act, but it has also gifted us with a sense of urgency and an opportunity to lead courageously,” the bishops said.
A member of the Reformed Episcopal Church writes Brad B. Root, recently appointed Chief Operating Officer of ACNA. Hap Arnold writes in response to Root’s