[ENS] EUROPE: Episcopalians assist as France receives first group of injured Iraqi Christians / VIDE

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Date Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:55:05 -0500

>Episcopal News Service
>November 11, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - EAST TENNESSEE: Diocese announces bishop nominee 
slate
* WORLD REPORT - EUROPE: Episcopalians assist as France receives 
first grou p of injured Iraqi Christians
* OPINION - On Veterans Day, honor those who served through thanks, 
prayer  and service
* VIDEO - Presiding bishop speaks about Sudan's referendum
* DAYBOOK - November 11: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

EAST TENNESSEE: Diocese announces bishop nominee slate

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Four priests, all from outside of the 
Episcopal Di ocese of East Tennessee, have been chosen to stand for 
election as the Knox ville-based diocese's fourth bishop.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_125660_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

EUROPE: Episcopalians assist as France receives first group of 
injured Iraq i Christians

[Episcopal News Service] French Minister for Immigration Eric Besson 
and re presentatives of the Association d'Entraide aux Minorités 
d'Orient (AEMO)  on Nov. 8 received the first group of Iraqis wounded 
in the attack on the  Syriac Cathedral in Baghdad on Oct. 31.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125650_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>VIDEO

Presiding bishop speaks about Sudan's referendum

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori 
speaks  about the Jan. 9 referendum in Sudan, when southerners will 
vote on whether  to remain a unified country or to secede from the 
north.

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

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

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>OPINION

On Veterans Day, honor those who served through thanks, prayer and 
service

>By Wally Jensen

[Episcopal News Service] Veterans Day is an annual holiday in America 
to ho nor its 24.9 million veterans. World War I officially ended on 
June 28, 191 9, when the Treaty of Versailles was signed in the 
palace just outside of t he small French town for which it is named. 
Hostilities had ended seven mon ths earlier when at 11 a.m. on Nov. 
11, 1918, the Germans and the Allies si gned an armistice.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_125658_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On November 12, 2010, the church remembers Charles Simeon, priest.

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: 
http://www.anglicancommunion.o rg/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On November 12, 1701, the Carolina Assembly 
passed the  Vestry Act of 1701, making the Church of England the 
official religion of t he Carolina colony. Active opposition by 
Quakers and other religious Noncon formists who lived there 
ultimately convinced the proprietors of the colony  to revoke the act 
in 1703.