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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>March 5, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - African Church leaders lobby British Government to help
end LRA crisis in Sudan
* DAYBOOK - March 6, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman's Race for the
Presidency

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>TOP STORIES

African Church leaders lobby British Government to help end LRA crisis
in Sudan

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Anglican church leaders from the Sudan, Uganda
and the north eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
have sent a petition to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown appealing
for his government's assistance in ending the brutal attacks by the
so-called Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). 

In their letter, the leaders, whose churches have been affected since
December 2008 by repeated LRA attacks that have claimed thousands of
lives and forced many more to flee their homes, called on the British
government "to put diplomatic pressure on the LRA leaders, leaders in
Sudan, Uganda and Congo, and leaders of the U.N. peacekeeping missions
... to do more to bring an end to the brutal attacks on unarmed
civilians by the LRA, which have seen many Congolese and Sudanese towns
swamped with refugees and displaced people since December."

The letter was signed by Archbishop Daniel Deng of the Episcopal Church
of Sudan, Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi of the Anglican Church of Uganda,
and Bishop George Ande of the Congolese Diocese of Aru.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105676_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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>DAYBOOK

>On March 6, 2009...

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer:

http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On March 6, 1976, John Shelby Spong was elected
bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark at a Special
Convention.

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>CATALYST

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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm

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Editor's note: The Presiding Bishop's column, posted February 24, 2009,
has been changed to correct earlier erroneous information that the 1928
Book of Common Prayer contained "obey" language in the marriage service.

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