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>Episcopal News Service
>February 18, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Diocesan gatherings consider mission, ministries
for the future
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHERN MICHIGAN: Diocese forms bishop search  committee
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - WASHINGTON: Christian-Muslim Summit will launch
diplomatic initiatives to end violence
* DAYBOOK - February 19: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - Letters to My Daughter

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Diocesan gatherings consider mission, ministries for the future

Conventions, councils continue to remember Haiti

>By Pat McCaughan and Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Snow storms and Haiti continued to get
attention as five Episcopal Church dioceses gathered on the Feb. 11-13
weekend to celebrate their ministries and plan for the next year.

In the Diocese of Alabama, videoconferencing brought a snowbound
keynote speaker and two Haitian priests in touch with convention
participants.

Also in Alabama, Bishop Henry Parsley announced that he will retire at
the end of 2011.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119575_ENG_HTM.htm

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NORTHERN MICHIGAN: Diocese forms bishop search committee

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan
has chosen an 11-member committee to guide the search for its next
bishop, and laid out a timeline for the search.

"The Standing Committee was committed to having a search committee
that is representative of our diocese's geography and diversity," said
Linda Piper, chair of the Standing Committee. "With this committee, we
have achieved that goal. We are grateful to all of its members for
agreeing to serve."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119574_ENG_HTM.htm

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WASHINGTON: Christian-Muslim Summit will launch diplomatic initiatives
to end violence

[Washington National Cathedral] Delegations consisting of leaders from
Anglican, Shi'a, Sunni and Catholic faith traditions will convene
March 1-3 at Washington National Cathedral to discuss reconciliation
between Islam and the West.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119554_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On February 19, 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 19, 1377, John Wycliffe stood trial in
London's St. Paul's Cathedral for his criticism of the church.

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>EBAR PICK

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Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life
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