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>Episcopal Life Daily
>April 16, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop calls Haitian debt-relief aid 'gesture
of compassion and human generosity'
* TOP STORY - Conservative Anglican primates recognize proposed North
American entity
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Construction of new St. Jude's Cathedral to
begin in June
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHWEST TEXAS: New bishop Scott Mayer sees
diocese as 'open and expansive'
* MISSION - Nevada?s only Spanish-language ministry hopes to expand
* PEOPLE - Brian Grieves, Maureen Shea to leave Church Center posts
* DAYBOOK - April 17, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Pilgrim's Process

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>TOP STORIES

Presiding Bishop calls Haitian debt-relief aid 'gesture of compassion
and human generosity'

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The $20 million that the U.S. will give Haiti
to help that country meet its upcoming debt obligations is "a gesture
of compassion and human generosity toward a neighbor in desperate
need," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told President
Barack Obama April 16.

In a letter thanking Obama for the pledge, the Presiding Bishop said
that she is "proud and pleased that the United States has offered to
alleviate this significant obstacle to Haiti's ability to fight the
crushing poverty and suffering of its people."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom Jefferts Schori
copied on her letter along with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner,
announced the $20 million commitment April 14 during a speech to a
Haiti donors conference at the Inter-American Development Bank in
Washington, D.C.

A copy of the letter is available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/Haiti.Obama.Barack.4.16.09(1).pd f.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_106924_ENG_HTM.htm

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Conservative Anglican primates recognize proposed North American entity

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Conservative Anglican leaders and former
Episcopalians, meeting April 14-16 in London, have said they recognize
a proposed entity composed of disaffected Anglicans in North America.

The announcement came in an April 16 communiqué from the GAFCON/FCA
Primates' Council that was created at the controversial Global
Anglican Future Conference. That meeting was held in Jerusalem during
June 2008, one month prior to the 2008 Lambeth Conference of bishops.
(Many of the bishops attending GAFCON chose to boycott the Lambeth
Conference.)

FCA stands for the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, which the April
16 communiqué described as "a movement for defending and promoting the
biblical gospel of the risen Christ," but which Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams has called "problematic in all sorts of
ways."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_106919_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Construction of new St. Jude's Cathedral to begin in June

Additional CAN$3.5 million needed to complete project

>By Marites N. Sison

[Anglican Journal] After more than three years of waiting for enough
funds to come in, initial construction of the new St. Jude's Cathedral
in Iqaluit is scheduled to begin in June.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_106913_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

NORTHWEST TEXAS: New bishop Scott Mayer sees diocese as 'open and  expansive'

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] During his first month as Bishop of Northwest
Texas, the Rt. Rev. Scott Mayer sized up his surroundings--about
77,000 square miles of plains, small mountain ranges and arid desert
with fewer than 40 congregations and rapidly changing
demographics--and took a leap of faith. He blogged.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_106931_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Nevada's only Spanish-language ministry hopes to expand

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal Life] Iglesia Todos los Santos, the Spanish-language
congregation of All Saints Episcopal Church in Las Vegas, represents a
glimpse of both "a beautiful future" and an awesome challenge facing
the Episcopal Church, says the Rev. Bernardo Iniesta.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_106902_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Brian Grieves, Maureen Shea to leave Church Center posts

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Brian J. Grieves, longtime
peace and justice officer for the Episcopal Church and currently the
senior director of its four mission centers, and Maureen Shea,
director of the church's Office of Government Relations, will leave
their posts after General Convention, Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori has announced.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_106925_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On April 17, 2009...

* 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 April 17, 1923, Alexander Charles Garrett
became the fourteenth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

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>CATALYST

"The Pilgrim's Process" from Penguin Group, by John Bunyan, with a new
introduction by Roger Lundin, 302 pages, paperback, $6.95

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Christian's perilous journey toward salvation: the Slough of Despond
and the Delectable Mountains, Doubting Castle and the House Beautiful,
Vanity Fair and the Celestial City. The author's religious faith, pure
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm

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