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>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 9, 2009

Episcopal Life Online is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - 'War on terror' affects Christians in Pakistan, bishop
tells Church Center staff
* TOP STORY - Bishops Working for a Just World to lobby for health-care
reform
* WORLD REPORT - JAPAN: Anglican church to celebrate 150th anniversary
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - September 13 - Fifteenth Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 19 - Year B
* DAYBOOK - September 10: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Abwenzi Means Friends - A Child's Exploration of the
Millennium Development Goals

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>TOP STORIES

'War on terror' affects Christians in Pakistan, bishop tells Church  Center
staff

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Persecution of Christians has been documented
as far back as New Testament times and has continued throughout human
history, including today in Muslim-majority countries like Pakistan
where recent attacks on Christians have evoked international attention
and concern.

Bishop Alexander John Malik of Lahore, Pakistan, has spoken out
against the attacks at home, pressing the government for a judicial
inquiry into recent mob violence that killed seven people and burned
more than 100 homes in a village near Gojra. It was the second such
attack in one month's time.

"The fanatics are attacking minorities, which is a deplorable act.
Government should take serious action against these extremists who are
targeting Christians and burning their houses," said Malik in a
statement published in The Nation (http://www.nation.com.pk/), an
English-language newspaper covering Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. "It
is the duty of the state to ensure that life and properties of
minorities should remain safe from such fanatics,"

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_114573_ENG_HTM.htm

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Bishops Working for a Just World to lobby for health-care reform

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] A group of Episcopal bishops plan to travel
to Washington, D.C., the week of September 14 to lobby on Capitol Hill
in support of health-care reform.
The group, "Bishops Working for a Just World," seeks universal
heath-care coverage and solutions to domestic and global poverty and
the environmental crisis. Bishops make annual trips to the nation's
capital to advocate for specific legislation or changes to
legislation.

"The issues that we lobby are the issues voted on by General
Convention," said Diocese of Newark Bishop Mark Beckwith.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_114566_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

JAPAN: Anglican church to celebrate 150th anniversary

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] When two Episcopal Church missionaries landed
at Nagasaki in southwestern Japan in 1859, it marked the beginning of
Anglicanism in Japan.

One hundred and fifty years later, the Anglican Church in Japan, known
locally as the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (NSSK), will celebrate its
sesquicentennial anniversary with a series of events planned for
September 22-23.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114565_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

September 13 - Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 19 - Year B

(RCL) Proverbs 1:20-33 and Psalm 19 or Wisdom of Solomon 7:26-8:1
(Track 2: Isaiah 50:4-9a and Psalm 116:1-8); James 3:1-12; Mark
8:27-38

>By the Very Rev. Anthony F.M. Clavier

[Sermons That Work] At least Jesus took poor Peter to one side! There
are few things worse than being shamed in public. Yet the story of
this stinging rebuke somehow leaked out. Indeed there is a school of
thought that attributes much of Mark's gospel to the words and
memories of St. Peter. Perhaps in this account we are hearing his
confession.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_114494_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On September 10, 2009, the church remembers Alexander Crummell,
priest, missionary, and educator (1819-1898).

* 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 September 10, 1937, Burnett Hillman Streeter,
Anglican New Testament textual scholar, died.

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>CATALYST

"Abwenzi Means Friends - A Child's Exploration of the Millennium
Development Goals" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Carol Chew & Peter
Sipple, illustrations by Carol Chew, 48 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $10

[Source: Church Publishing, Inc.] -- Through the eyes and ears of
Peter Sipple and his church's African Children's Mission, children
ages 7-10 see and learn about the lives of children in the African
country of Malawi. Thanks to the beaitful illustrations from artist
Carol Chew, they can visualize the coniditions faced by the families
of this stricken land.

Through Abwenzi Means Friends, children also learn firsthand of the
eigh United Nations Millenium Goals. Developed in 2000 by leaders from
189 countries, the goals aim to end poverty, hunger and disease in
poor countries around the world by 2015.

Along with the detailed daily journal of Peter Sipple and the
illustrations of Carol Chew, the book also includes:

* Ideas for how your church, families and individuals can reach out to
children in Malawi
* Glossary of important words in the Chichewa language of Malawi
* Listing of helpful Websites to learn more about Malawi and
organizations try to make a difference there

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
your local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org