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>Episcopal News Service
>June 11, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: No legislative decision on same-sex blessings
but an open spirit enters discussions
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Third and final draft of Anglican Covenant
called 'a very significant improvement'
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Anglicans need to get to the causes of
poverty, says U.N. Anglican Observer
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: General Synod 2013 and Lutheran Convention to
be 'fully integrated'
* MISSION - 'New Dreams-New Visions' pilot project launched
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Episcopalians can learn much from Brazilian
province, Anderson says
* DAYBOOK - June 14: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Episcopal Shield Flip Flops"

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: No legislative decision on same-sex blessings but an open
spirit enters discussions

>By Leigh Anne Williams

[Anglican Journal] "Despite all our differences we are passionately
committed to walking together." So said a pastoral statement approved
June 10 by the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada on the
issue of same-gender blessings. And it may mark the beginning of a new
spirit and approach to a question that has divided the church in
recent years.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122853_ENG_HTM.htm

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CANADA: Third and final draft of Anglican Covenant called 'a very
significant improvement'

>By Marites N. Sison

[Anglican Journal] The 2010 General Synod of the Anglican Church of
Canada has approved a resolution receiving the final text of the
proposed Anglican Covenant. It also directs the Council of General
Synod, after a period of consultation and study, to recommend whether
or not it should be adopted at its next meeting in 2013.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122854_ENG_HTM.htm

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CANADA: Anglicans need to get to the causes of poverty, says U.N.
Anglican Observer

>By Neale Adams

[Anglican Journal] Hellen Wangusa, the Anglican Observer at the United
Nations, told General Synod that Anglicans need to examine the causes
of hunger and poverty in the developing world.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122855_ENG_HTM.htm

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CANADA: General Synod 2013 and Lutheran Convention to be 'fully  integrated'

>By Neale Adams

[Anglican Journal] A fully integrated meeting with the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Canada is planned to take place at the Anglican
Church of Canada's General Synod 2013 in Ottawa.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122851_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

'New Dreams-New Visions' pilot project launched

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] A new pilot project aimed at pairing retired
clergy with small, under-resourced congregations with strong lay
leadership to empower God's mission locally is underway, according to
a June 10 news release.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_122859_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Episcopalians can learn much from Brazilian province, Anderson  says

[Episcopal News Service] House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson
explains the importance of the Episcopal Church's covenant
relationship with the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil. She
reflects on the relationship during her attendance at the province's
31st General Synod, held June 3-6 just outside Sao Paulo.

Video:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm#ooid=NmdGtmMTpQIMs4MJ0 
IJtKGaqxyE34svd,BjdXJnMTpclv5XctiFFtM1k9YF2dJ4-e

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On June 14, 2010, the church remembers Basil the Great, bishop of  Caesarea.

* 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 14, 1889, the Christian Social Union was
founded. This organization within the Church of England addressed
social injustice, which flourished in the latter part of the 19th
century and continued into the early 20th century. Through the work of
"slum priests," it became attached to the Oxford Movement. Its leaders
included Henry Scott Holland, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, and
briefly William Temple, later archbishop of Canterbury.

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