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>Episcopal News Service
>April 9, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Advocacy, partnerships bolstered as Sudan approaches
general elections
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - UTAH: Diocese announces four nominees for next  bishop
* WORLD REPORT - UGANDA: Archbishop Orombi expresses concerns about
Standing Committee
* DAYBOOK - April 12: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "1979 Book of Common Prayer (RCL) & NRSV Bible with
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>TOP STORIES

Advocacy, partnerships bolstered as Sudan approaches general elections

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] As Sudan heads to the polls this weekend to
hold its first democratic elections in 24 years, Episcopalians in the
U.S. have been ramping up advocacy and raising awareness of the issues
that confront Africa's largest and most war-torn nation amid fears
that it could plunge back into civil war.

Richard Parkins and Russ Randle, two leading Episcopal Church
advocates for Sudan, have continued to pursue the U.S. Congress and
Obama administration pressing them to make the African country's peace
agreement a priority and to ensure that fair elections are conducted.

"There has been a ratcheting up of interest in Sudan because people
are making dire predictions about the election aftermath," Parkins,
director of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan,
told ENS in a telephone interview. "It's not addressing new issues but
putting a spotlight on the fragility of the peace agreement."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_121391_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

UTAH: Diocese announces four nominees for next bishop

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Utah
(http://www.utahbishopsearch.org/) has chosen four priests to stand
for election as its next bishop.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_121395_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

UGANDA: Archbishop Orombi expresses concerns about Standing Committee

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop Henry Orombi of the Anglican
Church of Uganda has written a three-page letter to Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams raising concerns that the Standing Committee
of the Anglican Communion has assumed "enhanced responsibility" and
expressing his dismay that its membership includes representatives
from the U.S.-based Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_121390_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On April 12, 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 April 12, 1799, the Church Mission Society
(formerly Church Missionary Society) was founded in London.

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