Episcopal Life Online Newslink October 8, 2007
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Children's healthcare is topic for October 14 bulletin inserts * TOP STORY - Council of African Anglican Provinces, CAPA Primates issue communiqués * TOP STORY - Meeting in Rwanda and Burundi, Anglican Peace and Justice Network releases communiqué * WORLD REPORT - JAMAICA: Anglican archbishop regrets church's participation in slavery * FEATURE - Laying the groundwork: The Episcopal Church played a major role in formation of Anglican Communion
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TOP STORIES
Children's healthcare is topic for October 14 bulletin inserts
[Episcopal News Service] There are 8.7 million uninsured children in the United States - and a serious gap in serving children who do not qualify for Medicaid, but whose parents cannot afford private health insurance. For many families with children who fall into this category, the State's Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is their safety net. The importance of this program, together with wider issues of children's healthcare, is the focus of Episcopal Life's parish bulletin inserts for October 14.
Bulletin inserts are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_8852_ENG_HTM.htm
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Council of African Anglican Provinces, CAPA Primates issue communiqués
Newly elected leader says unity 'must never be at the expense of the truth of the Holy Scriptures'
[Episcopal News Service] Eleven of the 12 members of the Council of African Anglican Provinces, meeting October 2-5 in Quatre Bornes, Mauritius, have said that they believe they have "come of age."
Meanwhile, the Primates of the provinces attending the Mauritius meeting issued a communiqué (text below) calling for a postponement of the 2008 Lambeth Conference to "allow the current tensions to subside and leave room for the hard work of reconciliation that must be done."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90816_ENG_HTM.htm
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Meeting in Rwanda and Burundi, Anglican Peace and Justice Network releases communiqué
Calls work 'central to the mission of the Church'
[Episcopal News Service] The international Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN), has issued a communiqué from its recently concluded triennial meeting in Kigali, Rwanda and Bujumbura, Burundi.
Participants included representatives from 17 provinces (list below) of the Anglican Communion. The meeting focused on conflict transformation and exploring the role of violence in societies throughout the world.
Bishop Pie Ntukamazina of the Diocese of Bujumbura, a leader of its steering committee, hosted the APJN on behalf of the Anglican Provinces of Rwanda and Burundi.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90815_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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WORLD REPORT
JAMAICA: Anglican archbishop regrets church's participation in slavery http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90813_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
Laying the groundwork
The Episcopal Church played a major role in formation of Anglican Communion
By Matthew Davies
[Episcopal Life] The Episcopal Church played an important part in laying the groundwork for global Anglicanism when it sent Samuel Seabury to the British Isles in 1784 to be consecrated. Bishops in the Church of England, however, thwarted Seabury's mission when he reached London.
The English church, standing firm in its post-Reformation ideals, insisted he swear an oath of allegiance to the king. Such an oath would have contravened America's Declaration of Independence, perhaps not the best way for Seabury to begin his tenure as the first Episcopal bishop of Connecticut and the Episcopal Church.
Instead, he took to the road, traveling 400 miles north to Scotland. There the Episcopal Church in Aberdeen and Orkney gladly assisted his consecration, and with a more workable condition -- that he promote the Scottish Prayer Book back on American soil.
This milestone is often heralded by scholars as the main catalyst, if not the onset, of what eventually would become known as the Anglican Communion. Today, the communion encompasses 38 autonomous provinces with 77 million Anglicans in 164 countries worldwide.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_90810_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm