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>Episcopal News Service
>January 14, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - In Haiti, Milwaukee men are alive; others continue to
wait for news of the missing
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion rally to aid Haiti
* TOP STORY - Church's response to Haitian crisis grows
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Relief and Development bulletin inserts
address Haiti crisis
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Church helps to train leaders in Liberia
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury issues message of
support for Haiti victims
* WORLD REPORT - SCOTLAND: Election to decide if Britain will have
first female Anglican bishop
* DAYBOOK - January 15: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Healing of America - A Global Quest for Better,
Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

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>TOP STORIES

In Haiti, Milwaukee men are alive; others continue to wait for news of
the missing

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] In some ways, the waiting and watching for
two missing members of a mission trip to Haiti was over for Mary Alice
Eschweiler, a board member of the Haiti Project of the Episcopal
Diocese of Milwaukee (http://www.diomil.org).

>In other ways, not so much.

On Jan. 14 she said she'd received word that James Tamlin and Andrew
Lee, part of a group of seven current and former University of
Wisconsin-Madison students on the trip, were alive. But she didn't
know where they were, or if reports they were being evacuated to the
Dominican Republic were true. Nor did she know the fate of some 2,000
villagers with whom the Haiti Project has shared a long-time
partnership.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118489_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion rally to aid Haiti

Leaders call for an 'immediate and generous' response

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] From spare pocket change to thousands of
dollars and additional pledges of ongoing assistance, Anglicans and
Episcopalians around the globe rallied Jan. 14 to aid their sister
Diocese of Haiti in the aftermath of the worst earthquake in the
island nation's history.

News of the Jan. 12 magnitude 7 earthquake, which destroyed most of
the Episcopal Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral)
complex including the residence of Bishop Jean-Zaché Duracin in the
capital city Port-au-Prince, reverberated across the international
religious community, evoking prayers and eliciting concern for the
missing and injured, as the death toll, estimated in the thousands,
continued to climb.

Church leaders, from Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa,
urged a generous and immediate response, while acknowledging tough
economic times.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118484_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Church's response to Haitian crisis grows

Episcopal Relief and Development official due to travel to region

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church continued Jan. 14 to
respond to the devastating impact of the massive earthquake that
destroyed wide swaths of Haiti.

Katie Mears, Episcopal Relief and Development's program manager for
USA disaster preparedness and response, soon will be traveling to the
Dominican Republic, Haiti's western neighbor on the island of
Hispaniola, to further assess the situation and coordinate the
agency's response to this disaster, according to a news release.

The magnitude 7 earthquake, whose epicenter struck 10 miles southwest
of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, at 4:53 p.m. local time on
Jan. 12, was immediately followed by a series of aftershocks. About a
third of Haiti's approximately 9 million people live in
Port-au-Prince.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118481_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Relief and Development bulletin inserts address Haiti crisis

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Relief and Development has released
a set of bulletin inserts addressing the crisis in Haiti as that
country and its Episcopal diocese struggle with the after-effects of
the earthquake that devastated the island nation on Jan. 12.

The inserts, which may be downloaded at

http://www.er-d.org/BulletinInsertsCT, detail some of the losses the
nation and the Diocese of Haiti have sustained and its own immediate
efforts to assist.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118480_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Church helps to train leaders in Liberia

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Bahnavileh Jones, 26, returned to Liberia
from Ghana in 2002, toward the end of the war-torn country's 15-year
civil war, making his way to the Episcopal-affiliated Cuttington
University in Suakoko, Bong County, where he volunteered on the farm.

Eventually, the university awarded Jones a scholarship, and in May
2008 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in rural development and
agriculture; he now works for the university's agricultural extension
program.

It is Jones's dream, he said, to continue higher learning.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118478_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury issues message of support for Haiti  victims

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has
given a message of support to the people of Haiti affected by the
devastation caused by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_118445_ENG_HTM.htm

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SCOTLAND: Election to decide if Britain will have first female Anglican  bishop

>By Trevor Grundy

[Episcopal News Service] Britain might soon have its first female
Anglican bishop, serving the 38,000-member Scottish Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_118472_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On January 15, 2010, the church remembers Martin Luther King, Jr.,
civil rights leader.

* 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 15, 1535, Henry VIII declared himself
head of the Church of England.

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>CATALYST

"The Healing of America - A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and
Fairer Health Care" from Penguin Group, by T. R. Reid, 277 pages,
hardcover, c. 2009, $25.95

[Penguin Group] In his global quest to find a possible prescription,
Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our
own-including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada-where he
finds inspiration in example. Reid shares evidence from doctors,
government officials, health care experts, and patients the world
over, finding that foreign health care systems give everybody quality
care at an affordable cost. And that dreaded monster "socialized
medicine" turns out to be a myth. Many developed countries provide
universal coverage with private doctors, private hospitals, and
private insurance.

In addition to long-established systems, Reid also studies countries
that have carried out major health care reform. The first question
facing these countries-and the United States, for that matter-is an
ethical issue: Is health care a human right? Most countries have
already answered with a resolute yes, leaving the United States in the
murky moral backwater with nations we typically think of as far less
just than our own.

The Healing of America lays bare the moral question at the heart of
our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding
the health care debate. Reid sees problems elsewhere, too: He finds
poorly paid doctors in Japan, endless lines in Canada, mistreated
patients in Britain, spartan facilities in France. Still, all the
other rich countries operate at a lower cost, produce better health
statistics, and cover everybody. In the end, The Healing of America is
a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can
borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
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