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>Episcopal News Service
>February 8, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Bishop Duracin of Haiti offers a Lenten reflection in
bulletin inserts for Feb. 21
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Women bishops debate postponed until July
* WORLD REPORT - NORTHERN IRELAND: Church leaders hail political  agreement
* MISSION - Young adult follows call to educate children, improve
lives in rural South India
* PEOPLE - Province V appoints Jo Gantzer as coordinator
* DAYBOOK - February 9: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - 2010 Lenten Meditations - Healing Ourselves and a Hurting  World

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>TOP STORIES

Bishop Duracin of Haiti offers a Lenten reflection in bulletin inserts
for Feb. 21

[Episcopal News Service] "I look at this as a baptism," writes Bishop
Jean Zaché Duracin of Haiti in a reflection in Episcopal News Service
Weekly bulletin inserts for Feb. 21, the first Sunday of Lent, which
is also designated by General Convention as Episcopal Relief &
Development Sunday. Bishop Duracin comments on the situation in Haiti
and the need for faith, prayer and renewal in the midst of devastation
caused by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12.

Inserts may be downloaded at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

Full texts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_119236_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Women bishops debate postponed until July

Synod to consider recognition of breakaway Anglicans

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] A committee charged with revising a draft
measure that would pave the way for women to be consecrated as bishops
in the Church of England needs more time to consider the legislation,
Bishop Nigel McCulloch of Manchester told General Synod members as
they commenced their Feb. 8-12 meeting in London.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_119246_ENG_HTM.htm

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NORTHERN IRELAND: Church leaders hail political agreement

>By Ray McMenamin

[Episcopal News Service] Church leaders in Ireland have welcomed an
agreement concluded between the two largest political parties in
Northern Ireland, which will see the completion of a process of
devolving power from the British government.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_119230_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Young adult follows call to educate children, improve lives in rural  South India

>By Sharon Sheridan

[Episcopal News Service] Growing up, Michael Haslett learned a simple
creed of human rights: "You're equal. You should be safe. You should
be happy. If you want to go to school, you go to school."

"But that's not true everywhere in the world," he recently told the
congregation at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown, New
Jersey.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_119226_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

>Province V appoints Jo Gantzer as coordinator

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Jo Gantzer has been appointed provincial
coordinator for Province V effective Feb. 1, according to the Rev.
Canon Alan James, provincial president, in a letter sent to the
province's executive committee.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_119242_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On February 9, 2010...

* 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 February 9, 1649, William Marshall's engraving
of Charles I of England as a Christian martyr was published in the
Eikon Basilike [Royal Portrait] ten days after the king was beheaded
by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War.

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>EBAR PICK

"2010 Lenten Meditations - Healing Ourselves and a Hurting World,"
Episcopal Relief & Development, 52 page paperback booklet. This is a
free resource.

[Episcopal Relief & Development] With the theme "Healing ourselves and
a hurting world," this devotional will inspire members of your
congregation to reflect on their own lives and their relationships
with a world in pain.

All meditations and artwork are courtesy of Sr. Claire Joy, Community
of the Holy Spirit.

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