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>Episcopal News Service
>June 7, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Episcopalians removed from Anglican Communion's
ecumenical dialogues
* TOP STORY - Brazilian Anglicans commemorate long history, deep roots
within Episcopal Church
* TOP STORY - Edinburgh 2010 participants issue call to common mission
for global Christian community
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Big cuts to national programs, Church House
staff planned for 2011
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Live together with difference, urges Hiltz
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Hiltz supports Episcopal Church, echoes
objections to proposed sanctions
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: 'We are a people of hope,' Jerusalem bishop
tells synod members
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: New style of respectful listening and
dialogue presented in same-sex blessings debate
* MISSION - Building Bridges Seminar addresses changing patterns in
religious authority
* MISSION - Anglican Bible project aims to discover the church's role
in battling climate change
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Archbishop of York preaches at Edinburgh 2010
closing celebration
* DAYBOOK - June 8: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Episcopal Shield Cap"

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>TOP STORIES

Episcopalians removed from Anglican Communion's ecumenical dialogues

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary
general of the Anglican Communion, has written to those Episcopalians
serving on the communion's ecumenical dialogues informing them that
their memberships have been discontinued.

The decision is likely to affect four Episcopal Church members serving
on Anglican dialogues with the Lutheran, Methodist and Orthodox
churches, as well as one member of the Inter-Anglican Standing
Committee on Unity, Faith and Order, who has been invited to serve as
a consultant.

Kearon's announcement came in a June 7 letter outlining the next steps
following Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' Pentecost letter.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_122717_ENG_HTM.htm

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Brazilian Anglicans commemorate long history, deep roots within  Episcopal 
Church

Synod re-elects primate, chooses first female provincial leader,
welcomes President of the House of Deputies

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Embu Guacu, Brazil] Episcopal Church House
of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson helped the Igreja Episcopal
Anglicana do Brasil (IEAB) bring its historic 31st General Synod to a
close June 6 by preaching during the gathering's final Eucharist.

"I am reminded of the long and strong relationship between the
Episcopal Church in Brazil and the Episcopal Church," Anderson said
from the pulpit of St. Paul's, the Anglican cathedral in Sao Paulo. "I
give great thanks for that relationship. Your prophetic witness to
justice, your creative and inspired worship, music and song is an
inspiration to us."

The 31st synod, held June 3-6 at Recanto Betania retreat center just
outside Sao Paulo, honored 200 years of an Anglican presence in
Brazil; 120 years of the IEAB, which has deep roots in the U.S.-based
Episcopal Church and the 25th anniversary of the ordination of women
in the province.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_122712_ENG_HTM.htm

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Edinburgh 2010 participants issue call to common mission for global
Christian community

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service, Edinburgh, Scotland] Indian dancers, an
African-Scottish choir and songs from every continent greeted more
than 1,000 people to the Mound in the Scottish capital June 6 for a
3-hour-long celebration that drew the Edinburgh 2010 missionary
conference to a close.

Archbishop of York John Sentamu told the gathering during his sermon
that "every Christian is a witness ... and as a witness our task is to
take people to Jesus and leave them there with him ... For the world
at this moment, Jesus is on trial, and what you will do and say will
make the most profound difference to those who are judging Christ now.

"As leaders in mission, we must help our churches by acting
prophetically, speaking out for freedom against injustice," Sentamu
said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_122711_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Big cuts to national programs, Church House staff planned for  2011

>By Neale Adams

[Anglican Journal] Declining revenue from dioceses and decisions made
by the Council of General Synod will result in a cut of about CAN$1.1
million (US$1.04 million) in 2011 from the church's current CAN$10
million ($9.46 million) budget.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122687_ENG_HTM.htm

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CANADA: Live together with difference, urges Hiltz

>By Leigh Anne Williams

[Anglican Journal] In his presidential address opening General Synod
2010 in Halifax, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church
of Canada, "leaned into the wind" to speak frankly about some of the
tough questions members will be asked to consider over the next week.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122679_ENG_HTM.htm

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CANADA: Hiltz supports Episcopal Church, echoes objections to proposed  
sanctions

>By Neale Adams

[Anglican Journal] Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican
Church of Canada, has allied himself with the U.S.-based Episcopal
Church in a dispute with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122681_ENG_HTM.htm

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CANADA: 'We are a people of hope,' Jerusalem bishop tells synod members

>By Marites N. Sison

[Anglican Journal] Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem Suheil Dawani on June
5 urged members of General Synod to continue the Anglican Church of
Canada's support for the peace process in the Middle East. He said
that continuing violence and the "rise of extremism" is forcing more
Christians to leave the Holy Land.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122683_ENG_HTM.htm

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CANADA: New style of respectful listening and dialogue presented in
same-sex blessings debate

>By Marites N. Sison

[Anglican Journal] How General Synod delegates may discuss the place
of gays and lesbians in the Anglican Church of Canada could more
closely resemble the Zulu concept of "indaba" than the wild and wooly
debating style found in the House of Commons.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122685_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Building Bridges Seminar addresses changing patterns in religious  authority

[Lambeth Palace] The ninth annual Building Bridges Seminar, which was
convened by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and brought
together 30 prominent Christian and Muslim scholars, concluded on May
28 at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. The theme of the seminar
was "Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_122686_ENG_HTM.htm

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Anglican Bible project aims to discover the church's role in battling
climate change

[ACNS] Members of the worldwide Anglican Communion are working
together on a project to discover what the Bible tells the church
about saving the planet from environmental damage.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_122688_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Archbishop of York preaches at Edinburgh 2010 closing celebration

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of York John Sentamu delivers the
sermon June 6 during the closing celebration of the Edinburgh 2010
missionary conference.

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On June 8, 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 June 8, 1536, following Henry VIII's
Declaration of Supremacy, English clergy drew up the Ten Articles of
Religion, the first articles of the Anglican Church since its break
from Roman Catholicism.

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