[ENS] Presiding bishop, other Christian leaders meet with Obama on election eve

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>Episcopal News Service
>November 2, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop, other Christian leaders meet with 
Obama
on election eve
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MASSACHUSETTS: Episcopal City Tutoring improves
students' prospects through parish partnerships
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - WESTERN NEW YORK: Presiding bishop visits diocese,
refugee ministry
* DAYBOOK - November 3: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History

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>TOP STORIES

Presiding bishop, other Christian leaders meet with Obama on election
eve

Group raises issues of poverty, peace and justice

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
joined leaders of other mainline Christian denominations in meeting 
with
President Barack Obama on Nov. 1, the eve of the midterm U.S. 
elections,
to express gratitude for his leadership and to address national and
international issues of peace, justice and poverty.

"On All Saints' Day, it was very good to gather with the president to
speak words of support for him as a leader, particularly his work on
behalf of so many people on the margins," Jefferts Schori told ENS. 
"We
expressed our concern for the divisive rhetoric so prevalent in our
society today. We also expressed gratitude for his administration's
concern for the poor and hungry, and our hopes for continued work on 
the
economic situation in this nation, on Middle East peace, and on the
travel ban and restrictions on religious work in Cuba."

The Christian leaders included members of the National Council of
Churches, which represents 45 million people and 100,000 congregations
in the United States, and the global humanitarian agency Church World
Service.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125527_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

MASSACHUSETTS: Episcopal City Tutoring improves students' prospects
through parish partnerships

>By Nancy Davidge

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Eric Hillegas has a vision: Inner 
city
students engaged in free tutoring programs to increase their chances 
of
graduating from high school and continuing on to a college education.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_125528_ENG_HTM.htm

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WESTERN NEW YORK: Presiding bishop visits diocese, refugee ministry

>By Laurie Wozniak

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York
welcomed Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Oct. 29-31 to
address its annual convention and to experience a brief glimpse of the
mission and ministry of the Buffalo-based diocese.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_125540_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On November 3, 2010, the church remembers Richard Hooker, priest.

* 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 November 3, 1534, British Parliament passed the
Supremacy Act, whereby Henry VIII and his successors to the English
throne were declared "the only supreme head in earth of the Church of
England."