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>Episcopal News Service
>January 26, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Churches play crucial role in creating a home to help
humanity grow, says Archbishop of Canterbury
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Relief and Development hosts Archbishop of
Canterbury, launches NetsforLife Inspiration Fund
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Church writes off $78 million from Manhattan
property investment
* WORLD REPORT - WCC head to tell Davos meeting: Haiti debt should be  canceled
* PEOPLE - Nelson Famadas, Episcopal Relief and Development board
member, dies at 61
* DAYBOOK - January 27: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - A Paradise Built in Hell - The Extraordinary Communities
that Arise in Disaster

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>TOP STORIES

Churches play crucial role in creating a home to help humanity grow,
says Archbishop of Canterbury

Rowan Williams joins panel for discussion at New York's Desmond Tutu  Center

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Using the words of St. Lawrence, a Roman
Catholic deacon, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told those
gathered at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York City Jan. 26 that
Christians treasure the world's most vulnerable people because they
treasure humanity, and they know that God treasures humanity.

And in treasuring the most vulnerable, especially children, Williams
said, faith-based groups and churches play a crucial role in helping
the human race "imagine itself afresh" and in creating a "home," or
the space necessary to help one another grow.

Williams gave the keynote address and joined a panel gathered at the
Tutu Center on the campus of the General Theological Seminary to
discuss the theme: "Where Does our Treasure Lie? - A rights and
faith-based approach to safeguard children from the effects of the
global financial and economic crises."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118818_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Relief and Development hosts Archbishop of Canterbury,
launches NetsforLife Inspiration Fund

[Episcopal Relief & Development] Episcopal Relief and Development
hosted a luncheon Jan. 26 in New York City in honor of Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams and to launch the NetsforLife® Inspiration
Fund to continue the agency's ongoing fight against malaria.

Among the 75 guests in attendance were friends and supporters of
Episcopal Relief & Development and the NetsforLife® program
partnership; members of the agency's board of directors; and many
NetsforLife® corporate partners, including Chris Flowers of the White
Flowers Foundation, Florence Davis of the Starr International
Foundation, and Steven Phillips of ExxonMobil.

After briefly welcoming the guests and blessing the meal, Presiding
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori introduced Diocese of Colorado Bishop
Robert O'Neill, chair of the agency's board of directors.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118814_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Church writes off $78 million from Manhattan property  investment

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Church of England stands ready to lose
about $78 million invested in the largest real estate deal in American
history after Tishman Speyer Properties announced it was turning over
two Manhattan apartment complexes to creditors.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_118801_ENG_HTM.htm

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WCC head to tell Davos meeting: Haiti debt should be canceled

>By Peter Kenny

[Ecumenical News International] The head of the world's largest
grouping of churches, the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, is to tell the World
Economic Forum meeting in Davos that Haiti's foreign debt must be
immediately and unconditionally canceled.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_118794_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Nelson Famadas, Episcopal Relief and Development board member, dies at  61

Episcopal Relief & Development board member and prominent Puerto Rican
and southeast Florida businessman Nelson Famadas died Jan. 25 in
Miami, Florida, of complications from heart surgery.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_118809_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On January 27, 2010, the church remembers John Chrysostom, bishop of
Constantinople.

* 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 27, 398, John Chrysostom was
consecrated bishop of Constantinople.

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>CATALYST

"A Paradise Built in Hell - The Extraordinary Communities that Arise
in Disaster" from Penguin Group, by Rebecca Solnit, 353 pages,
hardcover, c. 2009, $27.95

[Penguin Group] Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster--whether
manmade or natural--people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful,
and brave?  What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find
in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this
joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities?

In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit
explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906
earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up
Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws
people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social
possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths
and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a
timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work
consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural
histories.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, call 800-903-5544, or visit your
local Episcopal bookstore.