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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>January 8, 2009

Episcopal Life Online is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Jerusalem bishop issues statement on Gaza, Al Ahli Arab
Hospital
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Presiding Bishop will convene special
diocesan convention
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Diocesan leaders ask court for access to
assets
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTHERN AFRICA: Archbishop Makgoba comments on storms  and
flooding in KwaZulu Natal, Mozambique
* MISSION - Presiding Bishop encourages support of Middle East churches
through Good Friday Offering
* DAYBOOK - January 9, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History

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>TOP STORIES

Jerusalem bishop issues statement on Gaza, Al Ahli Arab Hospital

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Suheil S. Dawani, Anglican bishop  in
Jerusalem, issued a statement on January 8 about the situation in Gaza  and
the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, an institution of the Diocese of Jerusalem  that
is struggling to provide critical healthcare to anyone in need.

Full statement: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104133_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

FORT WORTH: Presiding Bishop will convene special diocesan convention

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said
January 7 that she will convene a special meeting of the Episcopal  Diocese
of Fort Worth convention on February 7.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_104147_ENG_HTM.htm

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PITTSBURGH: Diocesan leaders ask court for access to assets

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal New Service] The current leaders of the Episcopal Diocese of
Pittsburgh (http://www.episcopalpgh.org) January 8 asked a special  master
overseeing diocesan assets to give them control over those assets.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_104151_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Archbishop Makgoba comments on storms and flooding in
KwaZulu Natal, Mozambique

[Anglican Church of Southern] Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican
Church of Southern Africa has sent messages of support to areas of  KwaZulu
Natal and Mozambique where recent storms and flooding have caused death  and
destruction. The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, whose area of
responsibility includes several of South Africa's neighboring countries,
assures the bishops and people of the church's prayerful support, while
calling for greater political commitment and practical action in  overcoming
global warming.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_104146_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Presiding Bishop encourages support of Middle East churches through Good
Friday Offering

[Episcopal News Service] In her Epiphany letter to all congregations of  the
Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori called on
Episcopalians to continue to pray for their sisters and brothers in the
Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East and to support the annual Good
Friday Offering as an opportunity to demonstrate solidarity with  Anglicans
and all Christians in the troubled region.

"This offering expresses our own commitment to walk with the church of
Jerusalem and the Middle East" as it continues to work toward justice,
reconciliation, and peace, wrote Jefferts Schori. "Through our support  of
these churches we are helping to realize God's vision of shalom."

In a letter to bishops asking for their support of the Good Friday  Offering,
Jefferts Schori emphasized the broad scope of ministry in the Middle  East
church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_104149_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On January 9, 2009, the church calendar remembers Julia Chester Emery,
missionary (1922).

* 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 January 9, 1868, Benjamin Bosworth Smith became  the
ninth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

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