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>Episcopal News Service
>February 26, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Anglican women gather in New York for 54th annual UNCSW
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Dioceses commit to church growth, community building
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Province IV to offer Innovative Leadership  Conference at three sites
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Maramon convention, Asia's largest Christian  event, focuses on green spirituality
* DAYBOOK - March 1: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - The Bus Ride That Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks

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>TOP STORIES

Anglican women gather in New York for 54th annual UNCSW

>By Lynette Wilson

Thousands of women from around the world, including more than 90  representing the Anglican Communion, will gather in New York March 1-12  for the 54th session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women to  undertake a 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing  Declaration and Platform for Action.

The CSW is the oldest U.N. standing commission. It meets annually to  examine a different theme as it relates to gender equity -- global  poverty, economics, peacekeeping, human rights, etc. - from the lens of  the most vulnerable and exploited communities, mostly women and  children, said Alessandra Peña, a consultant for the Anglican United  Nations Thematic Working Group on Women's Right and Empowerment.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_119787_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Dioceses commit to church growth, community building

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The dioceses of Arkansas and West Texas,  meeting in their respective conventions Feb. 18-20, identified church  growth and community building as priorities for the coming year.  Meanwhile, the Diocese of Virginia reconvened its convention for one day  Feb. 20 after its regularly scheduled Jan. 28-30 gathering was curtailed  by the threat of a snow storm.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119775_ENG_HTM.htm

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Province IV to offer Innovative Leadership Conference at three sites

[Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida] The Congregational Development  and Evangelism Network of Province IV is offering its Innovative  Leadership Conference, "Leadership Marks for Creating and Growing Vital  Congregations," at three sites this spring.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119773_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

INDIA: Maramon convention, Asia's largest Christian event, focuses on  green spirituality

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, Maramon, India] The Mar Thoma Syrian  Church's annual Maramon convention, which lays claim to being Asia's  biggest Christian gathering, has in 2010 focused on caring for the  earth, with government officials handing out tens of thousands of  saplings for planting.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_119771_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On March 1, 2010, the church remembers David, bishop of Menevia, Wales.

* 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 1, 589, David of Wales, bishop and  confessor, patron of Wales, died.

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>EBAR PICK

"The Bus Ride That Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks" from  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., written by Pamela Duncan  Edwards, illustrated by Danny Shanahan, 32 pages, paperback, c. 2005,  $6.99

[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.] Now in paperback: an  important moment in history is presented in a cumulative format,  accessible to the youngest readers.

In 1955, a young woman named Rosa Parks took a big step for civil rights  when she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. The  bus driver told her to move. Jim Crow laws told her to move. But Rosa  Parks stayed where she was, and a chain of events was set into motion  that would eventually change the course of American history.

Fifty years later, The Bus Ride That Changed History retraces that chain  of events -- introducing the civil rights movement, one idea at a time.  Take a ride through history in this unique retelling of what happened  when one brave woman refused to stand up so that a white passenger could  sit down.

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