[ENS] LOS ANGELES: Ecumenical refugee agency awarded 'highly competitive' $115, 000 federal grant

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>Episcopal News Service
>September 30, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Ecumenical refugee agency awarded
'highly competitive' $115,000 federal grant
* WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: Youth ministry, education are priorities
for Ramallah parishes
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTHERN AFRICA: Church, archbishop encourage
election of women bishops
* WORLD REPORT - 'Keep train on track' for Sudan peace pleads world
church leader
* OPINION - Tailgate Eucharist: Taking it to the people
* DAYBOOK - Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "We Get to Carry Each Other - The
Gospel According to U2"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: Ecumenical refugee agency awarded 'highly competitive'
$115,000 federal grant

Funds to be used to expand educational, legal services

>By Pat McCaughan

[Diocese of Los Angeles] Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Service,
an ecumenical agency under the auspices of the Diocese of Los Angeles,
has been awarded a "highly competitive" $115,000 federal grant to
enable the diocesan agency to expand legal and education services for
those seeking to become U.S. citizens.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_124812_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

MIDDLE EAST: Youth ministry, education are priorities for Ramallah 
parishes

>By Lucy Chumbley

[Diocese of Washington] The Rev. Hanna Daly, rector of St. Andrew's,
Ramallah, and St. Peter's, Birzeit, met his wife, Anita, when they
both taught at the School for the Deaf in Salt, Jordan.

The couple and their three school-age children moved to Ramallah in
2009 from Amman, where Daly subsequently established a successful
youth ministry. They are now set on building a strong youth program at
St. Andrew's.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124817_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Church, archbishop encourage election of women 
bishops

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The provincial synod of the Anglican Church
of Southern Africa is encouraging the election of women as bishops and
urging dioceses that do not yet ordain women as priests to do so.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124823_ENG_HTM.htm

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'Keep train on track' for Sudan peace pleads world church leader

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International] The general secretary of the World
Council of Churches has pleaded for the full implementation of the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Sudan so that Africa's biggest
country can achieve stability.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124820_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Tailgate Eucharist: Taking it to the people

>By Dan Webster

[Diocese of Maryland] It had been sometime since I had visited a
parking lot before a National Football League game. In my previous
career, and even during seminary, I followed television camera crews
into special parking lots and flashed press passes at the media gates.
So I guess you could say I had never "tailgated" at a Charger game in
my hometown of San Diego or, for that matter, anywhere else.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_124813_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On October 1, 2010, the church remembers Remigius, bishop of Rheims.

* 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 October 1, 965, John XIII became pope. He was
one of the few popes not to change his name on his accession.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"We Get to Carry Each Other - The Gospel According to U2" from
Westminster John Knox Press, by Greg Garrett, foreword by Brian D.
McLaren, 141 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $11.95

[Westminster John Knox Press] Who among us has not experienced hearing
a song that moved us deeply, that spoke to us in a truly spiritual
way? Millions of fans around the world have found that inspiration in
the music of U2, arguably the biggest band in the world today. Now, on
the heels of their latest studio album No Line on the Horizon, comes
this engaging and informative examination of the spirituality that
drives the band and its music. The author, who interviewed the
fledgling band on their second U.S. tour, takes us from their
upbringing in Ireland, to their dominance over the music scene in the
early 1990s, and then to their role as spiritual ambassadors to
post-9/11 America. Throughout we get a picture of the spirituality
that flows out of U2's music and how their influence has spread beyond
music into issues such as AIDS activism, debt relief for developing
nations, and the crisis in Darfur.

"U2's private practice and public presentations of Jesus' good news
are often discussed but are almost never subjected to sound critical
and theological analysis. Greg Garrett has corrected that situation
handsomely. If you care at all about the role of music in Western
Christianity today, you'll want to read this book." -- Phyllis Tickle,
author of The Great Emergence -- How Christianity Is Changing and Why

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