ACNS Weekly Review December 3, 2010

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A weekly roundup of Anglican Communion news plus
opinion, reviews, photos, profiles and other
things of interest from across the Anglican/Episcopal world.

NB: **The Weekly Review is taking a break for
December, but will be back in January 2011. Have a great Christmas.**

> This edition includes...

·       This week's Anglican Communion news

·       Anglican Life - The Anglican Church of
Thailand ordains first Thai priest
·       Anglican Life - Jerusalem in Japan
·       Anglican Life - A Communion wedding
·       Anglican Life - Chaplain to be ordained among those she serves
·       Anglican Life - Polynesia Youth Exchange
·       Video - The needs of the hungry met in New Jersey
·       Comment ? Archbishop's reflection on his visit to Hiroshima
·       Publication of the Week ? The Anglican.
The magazine of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland
·       Bookshelf ? The Anglican Covenant
·       Bricks & Mortar - Sri Lanka's "Great Church" celebrates 150 
years
·       The coming week's Anglican Cycle of Prayer.

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> ANGLICAN NEWS

·       England - Former Archbishop of Canterbury
launches defence of faith 'under attack'
·       England - Archbishop of York launches his own online Advent 
calen dar
·       Cuba - First Woman Bishop of Cuba Episcopal Church
·       New Zealand - New Zealand mining disaster: "You can't export grie 
f."
·       Pakistan - Persecution of Christians
could threaten future of church leadership in Pakistan
·       England - Archbishop's video message for World AIDS Day 2010
·       England - Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Athens

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> ANGLICAN LIFE

The Anglican Church of Thailand ordains first Thai priest

By the Diocese of Singapore communications department

(31 October, 2010) As the sun set on an unusually
cold and chilly day in Bangkok, Revd Pairoj
Phiammattawat was ordained at Christ Church. Led
by Archbishop John Chew, hands were laid to
ordain the first local Anglican priest of Thailand.

It was a historic moment. Over 300 witnesses
gathered; some were pastors and leaders from
other churches in Bangkok. Delegates from the
wider Anglican family, were also present.

This proudest moment however truly belonged to
the local Thai Anglicans. Leaders and members
from Anglican congregations from other parts of
Thailand were present to savor the occasion.
After 105 years of Anglican work and presence,
finally someone from amongst their ranks rose to
assume the ministry of a clergy.

> Click here to read more

Bishop Suheil and Shafeeqa Dawani visit partners in Nippon Sei Ko Kai 
(Japa n)

November 18-26: Bishop Suheil and Shafeeqa Dawani
spent a week in Japan at the invitation of the
Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan.
The visit by the Dawanis was a joyful reunion for
the women and delegates who have visited the
Diocese of Jerusalem in recent years. The Dawanis
were most warmly and respectfully received as is
the custom in Japan, setting the tone for their most gratifying visit.

Welcomed by Bishop Jintaro Ueda of Tokyo and
Bishop Samuel Osamu Onishi of Osaka, the Dawanis
greeted the Synods of the Diocese of Tokyo and
the Diocese of Osaka with a brief visit to Kyoto.
Topics included the current situation in the
Middle East, the Church?s responsibility in
response to that situation, and the ministries of the Diocese of 
Jerusalem.

To see pictures from the visit and read the rest
of the Diocese of Jerusalem's November newsletter download it at

http://www.j-diocese.org/archive?ct=News_Letters

> Marriage Links Durham and Lesotho

From Newslink, the newspaper of the Diocese of Durham

Three years ago Durham geography graduate, Tamara
Cuttill, volunteered to spend a year in Lesotho
working both at the MIS orphanage and helping to
develop the environmental project at the LINK
site. The year turned into two and she fell in
love with one of the LINK activity staff, Teboho,
known to all by his nickname Danger. Tamara is
now on the staff at the LINK as the environmental
officer where she has successfully attracted
Global Fund money for that work. She and Danger
were married at her home church in Kent at the
beginning of September and have returned to
Lesotho to continue their lives and work there.

What follows are excerpts from a letter she sent
shortly before their wedding which gives
fascinating insights into life in Lesotho.

"Here is another update from Lesotho,

about   little daily events that make life here
challenging, fun, upsetting, and each day
different. The first story I want to tell you is
about a 17 year old boy who I have been helping
with school work. He lived in a one room house
with his mother, who was ill with cancer, and his
younger brother. He has been going to high school
and is in standard C (third year). He has
epilepsy, which has been giving him problems
recently. Because the hospital doesn't always
have the right medication, he was put on 3
different types of medication over three months.
Last week his mother passed away, so he is now
looking after his little brother. His family
lives in Thaba Tseka, a district in the mountains
about 7 hours away, or they work in Johannesburg.
They have all come together to organise the
funeral, which will cost around 2 months salary.
We will have to look at ways to allow him to
continue in school and be able to support him and his family.

To read the rest of the newspaper and see a

picture of the happy couple visit http://bit.ly/eDBiC8

Chaplain to be ordained among those she serves

By Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service, December 02, 2010

On Dec. 3 in Chicago, hospital chaplain Carol
Reese will become the Rev. Carol Reese in an
ordination service at John H. Stroger Jr.
Hospital, the former Cook County Hospital, where
she has served as a chaplain in the trauma
department since 2005. For Reese, formally
entering the priesthood at the hospital -- her
parish, really -- is an opportunity to call
attention to the plight of the medically
underserved: She is the first paid chaplain in
the history of Stroger Hospital, and the only
paid chaplain in the Cook County system.

"This is a public hospital -- probably half or a
little more than half of patients are uninsured
-- a hospital like this is always scrambling,"
said Reese in a telephone interview. "To think
about doing something nonmedical, even though
people thought it was a good idea, when some of
the basic services are hard to provide, can seem a bit over the top.

"The thing that is interesting about this is
colleagues, people who don't think of themselves
as religious folks, see this as important and put
a lot of time and effort into making this
happen," she said. "[In the beginning] it wasn't
the church people taking the lead; some have along the way ?"

> To read more of this article click here

> Take a look at Polynesia Youth Exchange

From Rev. John Hebenton TSSF, Anglican Youth
Network Facilitator, Tikanga Pakeha

"On Monday (6th Dec) 130 young people and leaders
will be gathering to Fiji from Fiji, Samoa,
Tonga, American Samoa, and Aotearoa-New Zealand
for our supposedly biennial for Tikanga Youth
Exchange (the last one was in 2006) and the
launch of the Youth Yeah for the Diocese of Polynesia.

This week in Suva will be a week of learning
about what it means to be a three Tikanga
Anglican church, how we, led by God's Spirit have
sought to incarnate the gospel in each culture
that is part of our church, and yet seek to still be one together.

There will be live blogs, picture galleries put
up each day, and interviews with speakers and
participants posted each day. Check it out here:
http://t3.org.nz and in particular here
http://www.t3.org.nz/index.php/blog/week-exodus-to-fiji-for-anglican-youth/
Keep up to date. Pray for us.

> Te pai me te rangimrie."

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> VIDEO

Food pantry serves hungry residents of Asbury Park

By Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service

Hungry folks in Asbury Park, New Jersey, know
that the food pantry at Trinity Church is there every week to help.

> Video: http://bit.ly/hX1Mtt

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

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> COMMENT

> Short reflection on my visit to Hiroshima

The Most Reverend Roger Herft, Archbishop of Perth, Australia

?It was important for my first journey to Japan
to make a journey to Hiroshima. The welcome and
hospitality offered to me by Augustine Kobayashi
and the family was overwhelming. In the midst of
this vibrant, modern city is a sensitively
constructed reminder of what took place on 6
August 1945 at 8.15am. As I entered Peace Park
and the museum there were hundreds of primary
school children engaged in study tours. I was
disturbed and distracted by the shrieks of
excitement that accompanied their conversation ?
after all I wanted to be quiet to take in the
agony and anguish of those who had been vaporized
by the atomic blast ? and then it hit me ? this
is how it was on that morning. Men and women
travelling to work, children in school or on
their way neatly dressed in their uniforms, lunch
boxes intact, all of them engaged in the animated
conversation of the innocent - and then in a
moment the promise of life with its potential snuffed out in the name 
of pe ace?

Read the rest in the latest edition of the Nippon
Sei Ko Kai Newsletter here:
http://www.nskk.org/province/nskk_pdf/nl10_2_oct.pdf or online here

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> PUBLICATION OF THE WEEK

The Anglican - The magazine of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland

Learn what's happening in Auckland, New Zealand
by checking out the fully compostable The Anglican magazine for 
Advent 2010.

The latest issue includes thoughts from Bishop
Ross, a Desert Care Protocol for pilgrims, and a
story about a Friend in Zambia.

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> BOOKSHELF

> The Anglican Covenant by Mark D. Chapman

Product Description: This book is a collection of
essays by leading theologians and church leaders
on the implications of the proposed Anglican
Covenant, which has been offered as a solution to
the recent crises facing worldwide Anglicanism.
At the Anglican Primates' meeting in February
2007, a draft Covenant was commended for study by
the constituent churches of the Anglican
Communion. This book presents a sober and
dispassionate discussion of the theology and
politics behind the Covenant. The writers
represent a number of different theological
traditions and disciplines within and beyond
Anglicanism. What unites them is a desire to
understand other opinions and to listen to
different views. The contributors include
theological educators, church historians,
ethicists, biblical scholars, and canonists from
different parts of the Anglican Communion and
from ecumenical partners. While the book aims to
be dispassionate and to stand apart from the
rhetoric of ecclesiastical parties, it also
offers original and thought-provoking discussions
based on detailed and thorough scholarship.

About the Author: Mark Chapman is Vice President
of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford and a member
of the Faculty of Theology, Oxford University. He
has written widely on modern church history,
ethics and theology. His books include Ernst
Troeltsch and Liberal Theology (Oxford), The
Coming Crisis (Sheffield), Blair's Britain (DLT)
and Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction
(Oxford). The Rev. Dr. R. William Franklin,
Ph.D., is Visiting Fellow and Associate Priest of
the Anglican Centre in Rome and Associate
Director of the American Academy in Rome. He is
Dean Emeritus of the Berkeley Divinity School at
Yale University, and he was a Consultant at the
1998 Lambeth Conference. Canon Gregory Cameron
was ordained in the Church in Wales in 1983.
After years in Parish and Youth ministry he was
he was appointed to the post of Director of
Ecumenical Affairs at the Anglican Communion
Office in 2003. As Director of Ecumenical Affairs
and Studies, he was co-secretary of all
international Anglican ecumenical dialogue
commissions of the Anglican Consultative Council,
and additionally Secretary to three Commissions
of the Anglican Communion, including the Covenant Design Group.

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> BRICKS & MORTAR

An occasional column about Communion buildings....

Cultural integration through Christianity - 150th
anniversary of the Holy Emmanuel Church, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

> By Keerthisiri Fernando, Sri Lanka

> Introduction and Background

On the 27th of December 2010 the ?Great Church?
or Mahapalliya at Rawatawatte in Moratuwa will be
celebrating its 150th anniversary. Although Holy
Emmanuel Church is 150 years old the Anglican
congregation there has a history of over 200
years. When the British took the coastal areas of
Sri Lanka from the Dutch in 1796, many buildings
where the Dutch worshipped became places for
Anglican worship - the established religion of
the British Empire. Accordingly, at Rawatawatte,
from the latter part of the 18th century a Dutch
building became a place of Anglican worship.

The Dutch structure was built in 1675 on the site
of the general cemetery behind the present
church. As the old building was in a dilapidated
state, a new church was built in 1815 to replace
the Old Dutch building. As the church was closely
associated with the then British Governor Sir
Robert Brownrigg it was called "Brownrigg
Palliya". By the mid 19th century it was in poor
condition and a proposal was presented to the
Bishop of Colombo by Gate Mudaliyar Jeronis de
Soysa to ask the Governor to authorize the
building of a new church to replace the old
one.  Consequently the necessary authorization
was granted to build the new church. Hence the
church celebrating 150 years was created in 1860
as an offspring of the previous churches.

> General Context ? early saga

With more than 200 years of Anglican worship
Moratuwa is proud of its history of almost 500
years of Christianity. After the arrival of the
Portuguese at the Galle harbour in 1505, by
1519  Roman Catholicism was practised in various
areas in Moratuwa. When the Dutch seized the
coastal areas from the Portuguese in 1658 there
were many well-established and flourishing Roman
Catholic churches in Moratuwa. When the Dutch
persecuted the Portuguese and Roman Catholicism
in Sri Lanka due to their opposition in Europe,
almost all the Roman Catholic churches were
smashed and in many places Dutch Reformed
churches were erected. The Dutch Government in
Sri Lanka prohibited all religions except the
Dutch Reformed Church. The Dutch Reformed church
building that stood behind the present church at
the arrival of the British was built in the
context of the social history of Moratuwa, which
was an integral part of the history of Sri Lanka.

> Read more here

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THE COMING WEEK?S ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER (click
the link for the full details of the ACP)

> Friday 03-Dec-2010

> Psalm: 27: 1-4,13,14    Isa 14:24-27

Kisangani - (Congo) The Rt Revd Lambert Funga Botolome

> Saturday 04-Dec-2010

> Psalm: 146: 4-11    Isa. 16: 1-5

Kita Kanto - (Japan) The Rt Revd Zerubbabel Katsuichi Hirota

> Sunday 05-Dec-2010     Advent 2

> Psalm: 126    I Kgs 17: 1-7

PRAY for The Lusitanian Church (E-P to the

Archbishop of Canterbury) Lusitanian Church -
(Portugal) The Rt Revd Fernando Soares

> Monday 06-Dec-2010

> Psalm: 25    I Kgs 17: 8-16

Kitale - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Stephen Kewasis Nyorsok

> Tuesday 07-Dec-2010

> Psalm: 34: 1-6,21,22    I Kgs 17: 17-24

> Kitgum - (Uganda) The Revd Benjamin Ojwang

Wednesday 08-Dec-2010     The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

> Psalm: 85: 7-13    I Kgs 18: 1-16

Kitui - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Josephat Vundi Mule

> Thursday 09-Dec-2010

> Psalm: 30: 1-5,11,12    I Kgs 18: 17-29

Kobe - (Japan) The Rt Revd Andrew Yutaka Nakamura

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