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>Episcopal News Service
>February 16, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson outlines
Haiti's needs in Feb. 28 bulletin insert
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - ALABAMA: Bishop Henry N. Parsley announces plan to
retire in 2011
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MINNESOTA: Brian Prior consecrated as ninth bishop
in diocese's 'next chapter'
* WORLD REPORT - PAKISTAN: Kohat church hit by Taliban rocket
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTHERN AFRICA: Bishops censure Uganda's proposed
anti-homosexuality law
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Presiding bishop offers Lenten reflection
* DAYBOOK - February 17: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom

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>TOP STORIES

House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson outlines Haiti's needs in
Feb. 28 bulletin insert

[Episcopal News Service] Bonnie Anderson, president of the Episcopal
Church's House of Deputies, outlines the immediate and possible
long-term needs faced by the nation and the diocese of Haiti in the
wake of the Jan. 12 magnitude-7 earthquake that demolished
infrastructure, killed some 250,000 people and left millions homeless.

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

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

ALABAMA: Bishop Henry N. Parsley announces plan to retire in 2011

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of Alabama Bishop Henry N.
Parsley Jr. said Feb. 12 that he plans to retire at the end of 2011.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119474_ENG_HTM.htm

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MINNESOTA: Brian Prior consecrated as ninth bishop in diocese's 'next  chapter'

Three-day celebration includes youth lock-in, First Nations supper,
Sunday 'seatings'

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Several thousand well-wishers packed the
Minneapolis Convention Center Feb. 13 mid-way into a three-day
celebration of the Rt. Rev. Brian N. Prior's consecration as the ninth
bishop of the Diocese of Minnesota, in a ceremony rich with diversity
and rife with history.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119441_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

>PAKISTAN: Kohat church hit by Taliban rocket

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] A rocket allegedly fired by Taliban militants
just before midnight on Feb. 12 hit the boundary wall of St.
Augustine's Church in Kohat, causing damage to the building in the
North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_119488_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Bishops censure Uganda's proposed anti-homosexuality  law

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The bishops of the Anglican Church in
Southern Africa have said they are "disturbed" by a proposed Ugandan
bill that, if passed, would introduce the death penalty for people who
violate portions of that country's anti-homosexuality laws.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_119481_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Presiding bishop offers Lenten reflection

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori challenges Episcopalians to
take on something new this Lent in her Lenten video reflection.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On February 17, 2010, the church calendar remembers Ash Wednesday.

* 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 17, 1903, Joseph Parry, music scholar
and composer, died.

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>EBAR PICK

"A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom" from Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., by David W. Blight, 315 pages,
paperback, c. 2009, $14.95

[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.] Slave narratives are
extremely rare; very few are first-person accounts by slaves who freed
themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of
the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group. Wallace Turnage was
a teenage field hand on an Alabama plantation, John Washington an
urban slave in Virginia. They never met. But both saw opportunity in
the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped north, and both left
remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom. This book is more
than their narratives: working from painstakingly acquired records and
sources for the lives of heretofore unknown former slaves, the
historian David W. Blight has discovered and reconstructed their lives
-- from slave childhood to black working-class stability in the North.
These are the untold biographies of two ordinary men, but they are
also new answers to how four million people moved from slavery to
freedom. A Slave No More is a major addition to the canon of American
history.

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