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>Episcopal News Service
>May 3, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Bulletin inserts outline conference on domestic poverty
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - TENNESSEE: Weekend floods damage at least one
Episcopal church
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Constitutional talks with church collapse
after clergy pull-out
* MISSION - Haiti bishop to speak at Compass Rose Society's annual
general meeting
* DAYBOOK - May 4: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Christ and Culture - Communion After Lambeth"

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>TOP STORIES

Bulletin inserts outline conference on domestic poverty

More than 170 Episcopalians, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts
Schori, House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson and others
involved in social service ministries gathered in Newark, New Jersey,
April 28-30 for "Called to Serve: The Episcopal Church Responds to
Domestic Poverty," a conference designed to explore the nature of
domestic poverty and the church's role in addressing it. ENS Weekly
bulletin inserts report on the conference and the Episcopal Church's
efforts to relieve poverty. NOTE: The "Jubilee" video will be posted
on Wednesday, May 5 at the URL listed in the insert text.

Inserts may be downloaded here:  
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

TENNESSEE: Weekend floods damage at least one Episcopal church

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Two days of record rain in the Nashville area
have damaged buildings at St. George's Episcopal Church and closed the
Diocese of Tennessee (http://episcopaldiocese-tn.org) offices.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_121992_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

KENYA: Constitutional talks with church collapse after clergy pull-out

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] Church leaders in Kenya have
abandoned constitutional talks with the government, announcing that
they will rally Christians to vote against the draft basic law for the
east African country when it is put to a referendum.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_121969_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Haiti bishop to speak at Compass Rose Society's annual general meeting

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin of Haiti will
address the Compass Rose Society's 2010 annual general meeting, set
for Sept. 7-8 in London.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_121973_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On May 4, 2010, the church remembers Monnica, mother of Augustine of  Hippo.

* 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 4, 1851, Arthur J. Mason, hymn translator,
was born in England.

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>EBAR PICK

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