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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

September 6, 2005 -- Tuesday: To Note

Global poverty, MDGs, focus of National Cathedral service Sept. 11

[ENS, Source: Washington National Cathedral] -- More than 30 leaders of
Christian denominations worldwide will gather at Washington National
Cathedral on Sunday, Sept. 11, to affirm the UN plan to halve extreme
poverty by 2015 and propose stepped up action to eradicate poverty
throughout the world. Participants will call for a recommitment to
achieve
the Millennium Development Goals as laid out by UN members in 2000.

The event, "Consultation of Religious Leaders on Global Poverty," will
open
with a series of worship services and lectures in the Cathedral nave,
including a 2pm speech by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth
Institute
at Columbia University and special advisor to U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi
Annan.

During a 4pm interfaith service of music and prayer, featured speakers
will
include the Most Rev. Njongonkulu W.H. Ndungane, archbishop of Cape
Town,
South Africa; and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright.

All events in the Cathedral nave on Sunday, Sept. 11 are open to the
public
and free of charge. Media coverage is welcome.

Beginning Sunday evening, the faith leaders will enter closed
consultative
sessions that will extend into Tuesday, Sept. 13, after which a
delegation
will travel to New York to present the group's communiqué to the U.N.

"On Global Poverty" is the inaugural event of the Center for Global
Justice
and Reconciliation, a new initiative of the Cathedral College of
Washington
National Cathedral. Prior to the Sept. 11 convocation's start, the Rev.
Canon John L. Peterson, director of the Center, will be available for
interviews and background briefings.

For a complete press kit, please click on the following link,
http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/news/050911index.shtml

Among the participants currently slated to attend:

? The Rt. Rev. George Leonard Carey, the retired Archbishop of
Canterbury
(United Kingdom)
? The Rt. Rev. John Bryson Chane, Episcopal Bishop of Washington (USA)
? The Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Theological Advisor to the Ecumenical
Patriarch on Environmental Issues, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
(USA)
? Dr. Stephen Colecchi, Director, Office of International Justice and
Peace,
U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USA)
? Ray Dabrowski, Communication Director, Seventh Day Adventist Church
(USA)
? The Rev. Randolph Dales, Chairman, Standing Commission on Anglican
and
International Peace with Justice Concerns (USA)
? Marie Dennis, Director, Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns, Roman
Catholic Church (USA)
? The Rev. George Freeman, General Secretary, World Methodist Council
(USA)
? The Rt. Rev. Angel Furlan, former President, Iglesia Evangelica
Luterana
Unida (Brazil)
? The Rev. Canon Brian Grieves, Director of Peace and Justice
Ministries,
The Episcopal Church (USA)
? The Most Rev. Frank Griswold, Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church
(USA)
? The Rt. Rev. Tord Harlin, Bishop of Uppsala, The Lutheran World
Federation
(Sweden)
? The Most Rev. Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of
Canada
? Wahu Kaara, Ecumenical Millennium Development Goal Programme
Coordinator,
All Africa Conference of Churches (Kenya)
? The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General, Anglican Communion
Consultative Council, London (Ireland)
? The Rev. Dorothy Lau, Director, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare
Council,
(Hong Kong)
? The Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd, Dean, Washington National Cathedral
(USA)
? The Rev. Canon Dr. Richard Marsh, Director of the International
Education
Centre, World Faiths Development Dialogue, Canterbury Cathedral (United
Kingdom)
? The Rev. Ndaba Mazabane, Chair, World Evangelical Alliance (South
Africa)
? Dr. Esther Mombo, Dean, St. Paul's United Theological Seminary
(Kenya)
? The Most Rev. Donald Mtetemela, Archbishop of Tanzania, The Anglican
Church of Tanzania
? The Rt. Rev. Trevor Mwamba, Bishop of Botswana, Diocese of Botswana
(Zambia)
? The Most Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town
(South Africa)
? The Rev. Canon Livingstone Ngewu, Rector, The College of the
Transfiguration (South Africa)
? The Rev. Dr. Ishmael Noko, General Secretary, The Lutheran World
Federation (Zimbabwe)
? The Rev. Dr. Setri Nyomi, General Secretary, World Alliance of
Reformed
Churches (Ghana)
? Dr. Jenny Te Paa, Principal, College of Saint John the Evangelist
(New
Zealand)
? The Rev. Michael Perry, Consultant for Africa, Franciscans
International,
Roman Catholic Church (USA)
? The Rev. Canon John L. Peterson, Director, Center for Global Justice
and
Reconciliation, Washington National Cathedral (USA)
? The Rt. Rev. Luis Prado, Dean, Theological Provincial Seminary in
Porto
Alegre (Brazil)
? The Rt. Rev. Theodore F. Schneider, Bishop of Washington,
Evangelical
Lutheran Church of America
? Michael Smitheram, International Coordinator, Micah Challenge
(United
Kingdom)
? Archdeacon Tai Tuatagaloa-Matalavea, Anglican Observer at the United
Nations, Anglican Communion (Samoa)
? Geoff Tunicliffe, International Director, World Evangelical Alliance
of
Canada

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