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>Episcopal News Service
>April 13, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

*TOP STORY - Michelle Obama, Jill Biden visit Haitian diocese's quake
survivor camp
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - OREGON: Some members vote to leave, others to stay
at Portland church
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTHERN OHIO: Same-gender couples receive church's  
blessing
* WORLD REPORT - INDIAN OCEAN: Primate suspends 'all communication'
with Episcopal Church, Anglican Church of Canada
* WORLD REPORT - LIBERIA: Budget shortfall could cause girls' school to  close
* WORLD REPORT - Conservative Primates Council elects new leadership,
criticizes Episcopal Church
* PEOPLE - Canon Petero A. N. Sabune named Africa partnership officer
* DAYBOOK - April 14: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "The Great 50 Days - The Daily Office from Easter to  Pentecost"

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>TOP STORY

Michelle Obama, Jill Biden visit Haitian diocese's quake survivor camp

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] First Lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, the
wife of the U.S. vice president, April 13 visited a Port-au-Prince
earthquake survivor settlement run by the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti.

The two women walked to College Ste. Pierre, a wrecked diocesan high
school, as part of their one-day surprise tour of the Haitian capital.

U.S. Embassy personnel told the Rev. Lauren Stanley, Episcopal
Church-appointed missionary in Haiti and liaison to Bishop of Haiti
Jean Zaché Duracin in the U.S., that Obama and Biden visited the site
because they wanted to see an actual survivor camp where Haitians were
helping Haitians recover in the quake's aftermath. Stanley said the
embassy personnel told her that they knew such work was being
facilitated by the diocese.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_121477_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

OREGON: Some members vote to leave, others to stay at Portland church

Diocese, parish to seek 'mutually satisfactory and orderly transition'

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] About 100 members of St. Matthew's Church in
the Portland-based Diocese of Oregon have voted to transfer their
membership to St. Matthew's Anglican Church, aligned with the Anglican
Mission in the Americas, according to a statement posted on the parish
website.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_121447_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTHERN OHIO: Same-gender couples receive church's blessing

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] For Lynn and Peg, exchanging vows April 11
during Sunday worship at Church of Our Saviour in Cincinnati in the
Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio was a long time coming.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_121458_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

LIBERIA: Budget shortfall could cause girls' school to close

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] A $17,000 budget gap may force the all-girls
Bromley Episcopal Mission School to close its doors for the rest of
the 2009-10 school year, displacing up to 125 students, many of them
orphans.

The school was unable to raise the full amount it budgeted for the
academic year, said Esther Page, chairwoman of the school's board of
directors, in a telephone interview from Brockton, Massachusetts,
where she is visiting friends and family and undergoing medical
treatment.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_121469_ENG_HTM.htm

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INDIAN OCEAN: Primate suspends 'all communication' with Episcopal
Church, Anglican Church of Canada

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop Ian Ernest of the Province of the
Indian Ocean is the third Anglican primate in as many months to write
to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams expressing disquiet about
recent developments in the Episcopal Church concerning issues of human
sexuality.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_121456_ENG_HTM.htm

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Conservative Primates Council elects new leadership, criticizes  Episcopal 
Church

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] A group of conservative Anglican primates,
meeting April 5-9 in Bermuda, has criticized the Episcopal Church for
the election of a partnered lesbian as a suffragan bishop in Los
Angeles and named new leadership for the Global Anglican Future
Conference/Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Primates Council.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_121452_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Canon Petero A. N. Sabune named Africa partnership officer

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Petero A. N. Sabune has been
named Africa partnership officer for the Episcopal Church beginning
May 17, according to an April 13 announcement by Antoinette (Toni)
Daniels and the Rev. Margaret Rose, co-directors of mission.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_121457_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On April 14, 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 14, 1582, the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland, was chartered. The founding of the university is attributed
to Bishop Robert Reid of St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, who
left the funds on his death in 1558 that ultimately provided the
university's endowment.

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>EBAR PICK

"The Great 50 Days - The Daily Office from Easter to Pentecost" by
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