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>Episcopal News Service
>September 21, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - House of Bishops speak on immigration, Haiti, MDGs
* TOP STORY - House of Bishops issues 'theological resource,' pastoral
letter on immigration
* TOP STORY - Bonnie Anderson addresses stewardship in Oct. 3 
bulletin inserts
* TOP STORY - Ten-year MDG assessment yields mixed view of present, 
future
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: House of Bishops calls on Bennison 
to resign
* WORLD REPORT - RWANDA: Byumba Bishop Onesphore Rwaje elected as new 
primate
* MISSION - Holy Innocents' Episcopal School in Atlanta prepares to
help Haitian partners rebuild
* DAYBOOK - September 22: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Breathe. See. Nourish. Energize.
A Pathway to Healing"

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>TOP STORIES

House of Bishops speak on immigration, Haiti, MDGs

Six-day meeting was 'remarkably full,' says presiding bishop

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg and Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The House of Bishops, concluding its Sept.
16-21 fall gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, has issued a pastoral letter
and a "theological resource" on immigration, pledged to support a
major fund drive to aid the rebuilding of the Episcopal Church in
Haiti and reaffirmed their support of the Millennium Development
Goals.

The bishops also passed a "mind of the house" resolution calling on
one of their colleagues to resign. As of 10 p.m EDT, Diocese of
Pennsylvania Bishop Charles Bennison had not officially responded to
his fellow bishops' request to "tender his immediate and unconditional
resignation."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_124668_ENG_HTM.htm

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House of Bishops issues 'theological resource,' pastoral letter on 
immigration

Episcopalians should respect migrants' human dignity, differences of
opinion on policies

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg and Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The House of Bishops, at the conclusion of
the Sept. 16-21 meeting in Phoenix, told the Episcopal Church that the
starting point for any effort towards immigration reform begins with
"an obligation to advocate for every undocumented worker as already
being a citizen of God's reign on earth and one for whom Christ died."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_124667_ENG_HTM.htm

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Bonnie Anderson addresses stewardship in Oct. 3 bulletin inserts

"On the autumnal equinox just a week ago, as the earth was tipping on
its axis, congregations all across the Episcopal Church were hoping to
tip themselves into the black by preparing for their annual
stewardship campaigns," writes Bonnie Anderson, president of the House
of Deputies, in ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for October 3. Anderson
suggests that Episcopalians "look at old practices in new ways" as
they prepare their personal and church budgets in challenging economic
times.

Inserts may be downloaded here:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_102066_ENG_HTM.htm

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Ten-year MDG assessment yields mixed view of present, future

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] As the United Nations convened on Sept. 21 in
New York for the second day of a three-day summit on the Millennium
Development Goals, many delegates were considering a mountain of
statistics-filled reports attempting to give the world a sense of how
close the goals are to being achieved by their 2015 deadline.

The goals are a set of eight targets designed to reduce by half
poverty, hunger, maternal and child deaths, disease, inadequate
shelter, gender inequality and environmental degradation. The world's
leaders agreed in 2000 to achieve the goals by 2015.

The two major reports available are the U.N.'s 80-page 2010 MDG
report, which notes that "uneven" progress has been made towards
achieving the goals and calls for a "major push forward," and the
102-page 2010 report of the MDG Gap Task Force. The former reports on
the achievements thus far for every goal while the latter looks
specifically at the work done on Goal 8, which calls for the
development of global partnerships.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_124647_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PENNSYLVANIA: House of Bishops calls on Bennison to resign

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal House of Bishop has called on
its colleague, Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles Bennison to
"tender his immediate and unconditional resignation."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_124669_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

RWANDA: Byumba Bishop Onesphore Rwaje elected as new primate

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Onesphore Rwaje of the Diocese
of Byumba has been elected by his fellow bishops to serve as
archbishop and primate of the Province of the Anglican Church of
Rwanda for the next five years.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124645_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Holy Innocents' Episcopal School in Atlanta prepares to help Haitian
partners rebuild

>By Peggy J. Shaw

[Episcopal News Service] Tents are getting moldy. Temperatures soar up
to 140 degrees in the tarp shantytowns.

And one mother and her six children live in little more than a hole in
the ground.

The Rev. John Porter, a religion and ethics teacher at Atlanta's Holy
Innocents' Episcopal School, witnessed these and other things on a
trip to Haiti in July, but he also saw something he had been hoping
and praying for: four church/school complexes, built with funds from
the Holy Innocents' community -- St. Mathieu, St. Jean-Baptiste, St.
Marguerite and St. Jacques -- are salvageable.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_124642_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On September 22, 2010, the church remembers Philander Chase, bishop of
Ohio, and of Illinois.

* 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 22, 1991, The Dead Sea Scrolls were
made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington
Library. On September 22, 1993, Craig Anderson was installed as the
11th dean of the General Theological Seminary in New York.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Breathe. See. Nourish. Energize. A Pathway to Healing" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Frances Murchison,139 pages, paperback, c. 2008,
$20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Drawing on scripture as well as holistic
health practices, this practical guide blends the growing interest in
spirituality and health with the examples set by Jesus, who encouraged
his followers to embrace a life marked by physical healing, emotional
wholeness, and spiritual abundance -- moving people from physical pain
to enlightenment and spiritual revelation.

The book offers the four key principles -- breathe, see, nourish and
energize -- as a daily living practice for readers to begin nurturing
themselves both from the outside in, and the inside out. The book also
offers techniques to help readers apply these principles in their
day-to-day lives.

A chapter is devoted to each of the four disciplines within the title.
Each chapter describes the practice, placing it firmly and logically
within the context of scripture. Throughout the discourse, the author
shares stories of how people have encountered, struggled, and
succeeded with the different elements of each practice. She also
demonstrates how this overall process can lead to physical, mental,
and spiritual transformation.

Spiritual exercises, along with scripture passages, provide handy
encouragement for readers to begin readily incorporating these
disciplines into their lives.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
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