Episcopal Life Online Newslink August 9, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Evangelical Lutheran Church holds biennial Churchwide Assembly in Chicago * WORLD REPORT - AFRICA: Christian leader warns about repeating Darfur mistakes * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: New role for old bones at Anglo-Saxon church * WORLD REPORT - MELANESIA: Empowering youth is focus of churchwide consultation * WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: Bishops meet with former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
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TOP STORIES
Evangelical Lutheran Church holds biennial Churchwide Assembly in Chicago International concerns, human sexuality issues addressed
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] The biennial Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which began meeting August 6 at the Navy Pier in Chicago, has committed to renewed efforts to surpass $25 million in annual giving to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal; expressed concern for genocide in Darfur; opposed the escalation of war in Iraq; and re-elected Mark Hanson as its presiding bishop to serve a second six-year term.
The assembly began August 9 to debate a series of resolutions about human sexuality. The most prominent of those resolutions, or "memorials," involve allowing same-gender blessings and eliminating the ELCA's prohibition against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) ministers entering into same-gender relationships.
Earlier in the day August 9, the assembly recognized the presence of Episcopal Church guests in its midst. House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson; Bishop Christopher Epting, the Presiding Bishop's deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations (EIR); associate deputy Tom Ferguson; and General Convention secretary and executive officer Gregory Straub are attending some or all of the assembly as invited ecumenical guests.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_88989_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
AFRICA: Christian leader warns about repeating Darfur mistakes http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88979_ENG_HTM.htm
ENGLAND: New role for old bones at Anglo-Saxon church http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88983_ENG_HTM.htm
MELANESIA: Empowering youth is focus of churchwide consultation http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88986_ENG_HTM.htm
MIDDLE EAST: Bishops meet with former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88985_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm