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Daybook -- Today is Monday, January 29, 2007, in Epiphany. The Church calendar remembers John Keble, priest, (1792-1866).
* Today in Scripture: Daily Office meditation: http://www.forwardmovement.org/todaysreading.cfm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1769, Thomas Middleton, first Anglican bishop of Calcutta, is born in Kedleston in Derbyshire, England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._F._Middleton
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Diocesan Digest
MASSACHUSETTS: Some parishioners ready to return to Attleboro parish after others' departure http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81721_ENG_HTM.htm
NEWARK: Convention deals with same-gender issues, says farewell to bishop http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81719_ENG_HTM.htm
PITTSBURGH: Court tells diocese to turn over documents by January 31 http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81756_ENG_HTM.htm
Province VIII seeks coordinator
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81755_ENG_HTM.htm
SAN JOAQUIN: Bonnie Anderson to discuss Episcopal Church's mission and ministry http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81714_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_19507_ENG_HTM.htm
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World Report
CANADA: Archbishop of Canterbury to meet with Canadian bishops http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81758_ENG_HTM.htm
ENGLAND: Holocaust needs to be remembered as 'real event,' Archbishop of Canterbury says http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81708_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_77937_ENG_HTM.htm
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People
Craig Bossi named director of finance and operations for Episcopal Church Foundation http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81753_ENG_HTM.htm
More People news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78001_ENG_HTM.htm
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Congolese Primate seeks to strengthen ties with Episcopal Church
Dirokpa Fidèle encourages discussion, not division on visit to New York
By Matthew Davies
[ENS] Archbishop Dirokpa Fidèle, Primate of the Province de L'Eglise Anglicane Du Congo (Anglican Church of Congo), visited the Episcopal Church Center in New York City January 22-23, sharing sobering perspectives from his war-torn country and exploring ways in which to collaborate with the Episcopal Church to assist future development in the third-largest African nation.
Speaking to Church Center staff during a January 23 briefing, Fidèle described some of the challenges facing the country as a result of the civil war and ethnic strife that has claimed four million lives since 1994 and is largely recognized as the bloodiest conflict since World War II.
He acknowledged the increasing number of AIDS infections and rape cases, but commended the efforts of the Mothers' Union in working with women to alleviate the problems. "There are all sorts of other diseases and there are no doctors," he said. "Even where there may be a hospital, there are no medications."
Another problem is tribalism, Fidèle said, an area in which the church is working hard to achieve peace and reconciliation.
But perhaps most challenging of all, he said, is the repatriation of refugees who are flooding the East of the country, since many people are returning because of signs of increased political stability since the 2006 multi-party elections. "After five or six years they don't have a house, field or any way to support themselves," Fidèle explained. "So they drop people into the villages and they have food for about three weeks, but that's all."
"Refugees also have no clothes to wear and they come to church thinking that is where the solutions are, but we do not have the means of answering these problems," said Fidèle, who was enthroned as Congo's second Anglican Archbishop in 2003.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_81762_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "A Wing and a Prayer: A Message of Faith and Hope" from Morehouse Publishing, by Katharine Jefferts Schori, paperback, c. 2007, $15
[Source: Morehouse Publishing] -- As the first female primate in the 500-year history of Anglicanism, Katharine Jefferts Schori will have the opportunity to speak to a wide audience. This book will be the vehicle for introducing Bishop Jefferts Schori and her voice to the wider Church.
"In these essays, the Presiding Bishop offers her understanding of the 'reign of God,' a 'new government' she calls this reign. We, the baptized, are to make it reality; no equivocation for Bishop Jefferts Schori. She also tells wonderful stories that give us insight about herself, the new leader of the Episcopal Church; a woman of profound faith, keen intelligence and a prophetic sense of justice." ? The Rt. Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon, senior advisor for Inter-Religious Affairs, The Interfaith Alliance.
To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org or call 800-903-5544.
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