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>Episcopal News Service
>December 13, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Anglicans, Episcopalians issue statement on climate
justice, form commitments
* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop sends Christmas message in Dec. 19
bulletin inserts
* CHURCHWIDE - Oregon Episcopal School team wins $100,000 national
science prize
* CHURCHWIDE - Committee seeks nominees to join in church governance
* WORLD REPORT - IRELAND: In government meeting, church group raises
concerns about Sudan referendum
* DAYBOOK - December 14: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History

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>TOP STORIES

Anglicans, Episcopalians issue statement on climate justice, form
commitments

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] As Anglicans and Episcopalians met last week 
in
the Dominican Republic to share their stories and organize around 
issues
of climate justice, in Panama heavy rains and floods killed at least 
10
people, displaced 4,700 more, and forced the first-ever 
weather-related
closure of the Panama Canal.

"While we are here for the conference on climate justice, in Panama
people are being evacuated out of areas that are being flooded," said
Bishop Julio Murray of the Episcopal Church of Panama Dec. 9, in an
interview with ENS. "The groups that are mostly affected are the
indigenous groups that live in the area of Alto Bayano ... it is the
first time in my lifetime that the Panama Canal has had to suspend
traffic ... this is an example of what happens when water levels rise 
in
rapid ways."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_126183_ENG_HTM.htm
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Presiding bishop sends Christmas message in Dec. 19 bulletin inserts

"For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments 
rolled
in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire." Citing these words 
from
Isaiah 9:5 - now included as part of the first lesson for Christmas 
Eve
-- Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori writes in her 2010
Christmas message, "The coming of this prince of peace will mean the 
end
of all signs of war and violence. An occupied people will finally live
in peace, without anxiety about who or what will confront them the 
next
time they go out their front doors." Jefferts Schori's message is the
text of Episcopal News Weekly bulletin inserts for Sunday, Dec. 19 
(also
appropriate for use on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day).

Bulletin inserts may be downloaded here:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CHURCHWIDE

Oregon Episcopal School team wins $100,000 national science prize

Students hope research may aid autistic children

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Two Oregon Episcopal School high school
students, inspired by the movie "I, Robot," took top honors Dec. 6 in 
a
national science competition for their research to recognize emotion 
in
the human voice.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_126171_ENG_HTM.htm

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Committee seeks nominees to join in church governance

[Episcopal News Service] Nominations for membership on seven bodies or
positions to be elected at the Episcopal Church's General Convention 
in
2012 are now being accepted by the Joint Standing Committee on
Nominations.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_126174_ENG_HTM.htm

More Churchwide stories:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

IRELAND: In government meeting, church group raises concerns about 
Sudan
referendum

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Members of the Church of Ireland Sudan
Partnership Group met with Irish government officials on Dec. 9 to
express their concerns about the future of Sudan as a referendum on
independence approaches.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_126173_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On December 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 December 14, 1715, Thomas Tenison, archbishop 
of
Canterbury, beginning in 1695, died in London.