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>Episcopal News Service
>April 30, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop, interfaith leaders to pray for nuclear
abolition at U.N.
* TOP STORY - EPPN calls for temporary halt to student deportations
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MARYLAND: Bishop Suffragan Rabb announces retirement
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - ALBANY: Retired Albany Bishop Daniel Herzog
rejoins the Episcopal Church
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Continuing Indaba project puts resources on  web
* MISSION - Mar Thoma Diocese of North America and Europe raises money
for Haiti relief
* DAYBOOK - May 3: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Music of Grace: Amazing Grace"

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>TOP STORIES

Presiding bishop, interfaith leaders to pray for nuclear abolition at  U.N.

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Religious leaders and peace activists will
gather in New York May 2 at 12 noon at the Church Center for United
Nations for an interfaith convocation to call for nuclear disarmament
in advance of the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference May
3-28.

"We find common ground in our steadfast commitment to abolish nuclear
weapons," said Mark Johnson, executive director of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation. "From many religions, we come together for those who
have been profoundly impacted by the deployment, testing, and storage
of nuclear arms."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_121949_ENG_HTM.htm

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EPPN calls for temporary halt to student deportations

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Public Policy Network issued a
policy alert April 29 urging Episcopalians to advocate for a temporary
halt to deportation of students who would qualify to continue their
studies in the United States under the terms of the proposed
Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM).

The alert asks Episcopalians to write to Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano, telling her that "withholding legal status from
these children not only hurts them, but it deprives America of future
generations of dedicated citizens, innovators, entrepreneurs and
public servants."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_121948_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

MARYLAND: Bishop Suffragan Rabb announces retirement

[Diocese of Maryland] Episcopal Diocese of Maryland Bishop Suffragan
John L. Rabb said April 30 that he will retire Jan. 1.

Rabb, who has been bishop suffragan of Maryland for 12 years, made the
announcement in his address to the clergy and lay members of the
diocese during the 226th Diocesan Convention.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_121950_ENG_HTM.htm

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ALBANY: Retired Albany Bishop Daniel Herzog rejoins the Episcopal Church

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
has issued an order for Restoration of Ordained Ministry for retired
Bishop of Albany Daniel W. Herzog, who left the Episcopal Church in
March 2007 to join the Roman Catholic Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_121955_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Continuing Indaba project puts resources on web

[Episcopal News Service] The Anglican Communion Office's Continuing
Indaba project has launched a new presence on the World Wide Web.

"The arrival of Continuing Indaba on the Internet as part of the
Anglican Communion web site makes visible the preparatory work already
in hand for the series of pilot conversations between dioceses from
different parts of the communion to take place during 2010 and 2011,"
according to an Anglican Communion News Service story.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_121951_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Mar Thoma Diocese of North America and Europe raises money for Haiti  relief

[National Council of Churches] The Mar Thoma Church Diocese of North
America and Europe said April 30 that it has raised $131,775 for
recovery efforts in earthquake-devastated Haiti.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_121953_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 3, 2010...

* 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 May 3, 1997, Mark MacDonald was elected seventh
bishop of Alaska.

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