[ENS] VIDEO - Bishops reflect on immigration crisis, visit to U.S.-Mexico border

[<mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal News Service
>September 17, 2010

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

Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/episcopal_news

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* WORLD REPORT - GREAT BRITAIN: Benedict becomes first pope to visit
Lambeth, Westminster Abbey
* OPINION - Promoting peace and stability in Sudan
* VIDEO - Bishops reflect on immigration crisis, visit to U.S.-Mexico 
border
* VIDEO - Presiding bishop reflects on vigil at the U.S.-Mexico border
* DAYBOOK - Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Lifting Women's Voices - Prayers
to Change the World"

>_____________________

>WORLD REPORT

GREAT BRITAIN: Benedict becomes first pope to visit Lambeth, 
Westminster Abbey

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Pope Benedict XVI's four-day visit to Great
Britain is taking place in a mix of pageantry, prayer, protest and the
intrusion of terrorist threats.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124609_ENG_HTM.htm

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

>_____________________

>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Bishops reflect on immigration crisis, visit to U.S.-Mexico 
border

>By Lynette Wilson and Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal bishops from more than 20 dioceses
spent three days at the U.S.-Mexico border for an eye-opening
experience of the nation's immigration issues.

>Video: http://bit.ly/aqbLzf

>- - - - -

Video: Presiding bishop reflects on vigil at the U.S.-Mexico border

>By Lynette Wilson and Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
reflects on immigration issues following a vigil remembering those who
have died trying to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. in
search of a better life. About 40 Episcopal bishops and spouses
participated in the vigil, which typically happens each Tuesday and in
sponsored by Frontera de Cristo, a bi-national Presbyterian Church
border ministry.

>Video: http://bit.ly/anPbGD

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

>_____________________

>OPINION

>Promoting peace and stability in Sudan

>By Bul Garang Mabil

[Episcopal News Service] The present situation in the Sudan -- marked
by the upcoming January 2011 referendum on self-determination in
Southern Sudan as defined in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement
(CPA) signed in Kenya between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement
(SPLM) and the Government of Sudan's National Congress Party (NCP) --
poses complex questions to many people. With the possibility of
Southern Sudanese independence in 2011, many people in the
international community and the Sudan alike have begun to express a
growing fear not only over a possible resumption of the north-south
civil war, but also over the likelihood that a new independent state
will not prove viable. The reasons commonly cited for this pessimistic
prediction are insecurity and the potential for tribal fragmentation.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_124607_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

>_____________________

>DAYBOOK

On September 20, 2010, the church remembers John Coleridge Patteson,
bishop of Melanesia, and his companions, martyrs.

* 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 September 20, 1852, Thomas Church Brownell
became the seventh presiding bishop.

>_____________________

>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Lifting Women's Voices - Prayers to Change the World" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Margaret Rose, Jenny Te Paa, Jeanne Person &
Abagail Nelson, 393 pages, hardcover, c. 2009, $25

[Church Publishing, Inc.] This stunning collection of prayers from
women throughout the Anglican Communion is organized according to
themes of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.

It makes direct connections between women's personal lives and global
concerns of women everywhere, showing the interrelatedness, for
example, between a woman's prayer for her infant in America and the
plight of child laborers in developing countries.

The prayer selections are representative of women from of all parts of
the Anglican world. Members of the editorial board include Jane
Williams, Phoebe Griswold, plus women from Asia, South America, and
the Middle East.

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