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From: news@episcopalchurch.org [mailto:news@episcopalchurch.org] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:15 AM To: mdavies@episcopalchurch.org Subject: [ELO] Mission: Haitian migrants endure three-week ordeal at sea; Southeast Florida bishop pledges support / Catalyst: Simply Christian
Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Monday, April 2 in Holy Week.
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Mission: Haitian migrants endure three-week ordeal at sea; Southeast Florida bishop pledges support
By Nan Cobbey
[ENS] Bishop Leo Frade of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida pledged March 31 to help resettle the 101 Haitian migrants who survived a three-week ordeal at sea to reach the shores of South Florida last week.
Jumping from a severely overloaded, dilapidated boat into the sea, many of the Haitians, including a 10-year-old and several teenagers, were exhausted and sick. One man died in the attempt. Eleven, found to be critically dehydrated, were taken to a hospital. All were taken into custody by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami and are expected to be deported.
"They were escaping misery and chaos in search of freedom and security," said Frade. "They were in search of a home where they could live with human beings, work to provide for their families and assist those relatives that they left behind in Haiti."
Last year, 769 Haitians were stopped by the Coast Guard after trying to enter the country from the waters of Florida, South Carolina and the Caribbean, according to the Associated Press. Haitian citizens caught in such patrols are generally deported.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_84604_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense" from HarperCollins Publishers, by N. T. Wright, 256 pages, hardcover, c. 2006, $22.95
[Source: HarperCollins Publishers] Why do we expect justice? Why do we crave spirituality? Why are we attracted to beauty? Why are relationships often so painful? And how will the world be made right? These are not simply perennial questions all generations must struggle with, but, according to N. T. Wright, are the very echoes of a voice we dimly perceive but deeply long to hear. In fact, these questions take us to the heart of who God is and what He wants from us.
For two thousand years, Christianity has claimed to solve these mysteries, and this renowned biblical scholar and Anglican bishop shows that it still can today. Not since C. S. Lewis's classic summary of the faith, Mere Christianity, has such a wise and thorough scholar taken the time to explain to anyone who wants to know what Christianity really is and how it is practiced.
Wright makes the case for Christian faith from the ground up, assuming that the reader has no knowledge of (and perhaps even some aversion to) religion in general and Christianity in particular. Simply Christian walks the reader through the Christian faith step by step and question by question. With simple yet exciting and accessible prose, Wright challenges skeptics by offering explanations for even the toughest doubt-filled dilemmas, leaving believers with a reason for renewed faith. For anyone who wants to travel beyond the controversies that can obscure what the Christian faith really stands for, this simple book is the perfect vehicle for that journey.
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