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>Episcopal News Service
>January 18, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Haitian bishop, living in tent city, says 'the people are  strong'
* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop: King would 'remind us that the people
of Haiti are our brothers and sisters'
* CATALYST - Evolution of Faith and Religion - An Exploration

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>TOP STORIES

Haitian bishop, living in tent city, says 'the people are strong'

Duracin calls for help as church, Episcopal Relief & Development respond

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Rejecting offers to evacuate him from
Port-au-Prince, Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin
said Jan. 18 that he must remain in the Haitian capital.

"No, I will stay with my people," the Rev. Lauren Stanley, one of four
Episcopal Church missionaries assigned to the Haitian diocese, told
ENS the bishop said in response to the evacuation offer.

Stanley was home in Virginia when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck
just before 5:00 p.m. local time Jan. 12 and has been monitoring
diocesan reports from there.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118530_ENG_HTM.htm

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Presiding bishop: King would 'remind us that the people of Haiti are
our brothers and sisters'

>By Sharon Sheridan

[Episcopal News Service] When 8-year-old Ismail Taylor-Kamara saw the
news about the devastation Haiti suffered in last week's earthquake,
he e-mailed his priest, the Rev. Canon Sandye Wilson, asking her to
help him organize the children at St. Andrew & Holy Communion in South
Orange, New Jersey, to help Haitian children.

"He asked the most important question: 'Will you help me?'" said
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori after meeting Taylor-Kamara
at the church's "Small Fry Mass" for families with small children on
Jan. 17. "We can do far more together than we can ever do alone. But
it takes a leader to start that."

Jefferts Schori later expanded on that concept of working together,
and of everyone's interconnectedness in helping to achieve the dream
of God's promised land, in her sermon at the church's main Sunday
worship service, which honored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s
birthday and the culmination of the South Orange church's year-long
150th-anniversary celebration.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118527_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CATALYST

"Evolution of Faith and Religion - An Exploration" from AuthorHouse,
by Ajit Randhawa, PhD, 409 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $19.99

[AuthorHouse] Wars have been fought in the name of 'religion' since
the beginning of time. Some would even argue Adam and Eve fought the
first religious war by defying orders from God in an attempt to gain
control of the Garden of Eden. The truth is no war should be fought in
the name of religion. By definition religion is the belief in a
greater being and that belief is traditionally rooted in love and
peace.

The new book, Evolution of Faith and Religion: An Exploration, by
Ajeet Randhawa explores the history of faith and explains why the
common thread in all six major world religions revolve around
spirituality, peace and love. Understanding the origin of religion is
the first step in accepting our differences and solving the world's
conflicts.

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