Episcopal Life Online Newslink May 3, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - May Day immigration rallies keep pressure on U.S. Congress * TOP STORY - Nigerian Primate responds to letter from Presiding Bishop * WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Primate reflects on bishops' meeting * WORLD REPORT - ZAMBIA: ERD provides assistance following severe flooding * FEATURE - Educating for action
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TOP STORY
May Day immigration rallies keep pressure on U.S. Congress
By Staff
[Episcopal News Service] Immigrant-rights groups around the United States marched on May 1 to urge Congress to pass legislation that will make the immigration system one that balances enforcement with acknowledgment of the need for an expanded program to permit foreign workers to enter the country legally.
Immigrant-rights and faith-based advocates of reform, including the Episcopal Church, have consistently pressed for allowing those immigrants without documentation the chance to earn credit toward permanent status if they are employed and meet certain additional requirements.
"The Episcopal Church has solid, far reaching policies which embrace an immigration system that does not separate families, respects the dignity of workers by giving them access to legal membership in our society, and which balances a reasonable regard for enforcement with a recognition that the U.S. needs foreign workers and therefore should give them a legal means of offering their labor," said Richard Parkins, director of Episcopal Migration Ministries.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_85567_ENG_HTM.htm
Nigerian Primate responds to letter from Presiding Bishop
By Staff
[Episcopal News Service] Nigerian Primate Peter Akinola has responded publicly to an April 30 emailed letter from Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, asking him to reconsider plans to install Nigerian Bishop Martyn Minns as head of the Nigerian-based Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA).
The installation service is set for May 5 at the Hylton Memorial Chapel, a nondenominational Christian event center in Woodbridge, Virginia.
Jefferts Schori said the installation "would violate the ancient customs of the church" and would "not help the efforts of reconciliation." Such action, she said, "would display to the world division and disunity that are not part of the mind of Christ."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_85575_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
CANADA: Primate reflects on bishops' meeting
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_85558_ENG_HTM.htm
ZAMBIA: ERD provides assistance following severe flooding http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_85572_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURE
Educating for action
Ecumenical Advocacy Days participants urge end to torture, spotlight child poverty
By Nan Cobbey
[Episcopal Life] "We know that the United States has tortured to death 30 people -- these we've documented. There are probably hundreds more."
Linda Gustitus, chair of the Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), wanted her audience at Ecumenical Advocacy Days to recoil from such a reality. She had some hard facts to present at the event that drew more than 1,000 Christians, Muslims and Jews to Washington, D.C., in March. She wanted them to speak up, to just say "No." She gave them ammunition.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_85556_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm
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