As the Presiding Bishop's Deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, I want to make it clear that the Episcopal Church stands with her full communion partner, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in denouncing in the strongest possible terms the recent Israeli occupation of the West Bank town of Beit Jala and the use of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation and an adjacent orphanage there as a military outpost.
30 August 2001
The Center for Seafarers Rights (CSR) of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey has raised fears over the ongoing recruitment of Kenyans to work in cruise vessels abroad. CSR learned that a United Arab Emirate recruiting firm recently approached approximately 50,000 Kenyan citizens for work aboard cruise vessels owned by UK, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek companies.
28 August 2001
The Governing Board of the College of Preachers, located on the grounds of Washington National Cathedral, has approved the Rev. James Corner Fenhagen II of Georgetown, South Carolina as the new Warden [Chief Executive] of the College. Summoned by the Governing Board from retirement, Fenhagen has agreed to serve as Warden of the College on a year-by-year basis.
27 August 2001
A seven-member team from the Refugee Council USA returned from an extensive tour of refugee centers in West Africa and Egypt with discouraging news--refugees are still facing a bleak future.
24 August 2001
While synod members focused primarily on the healing and reconciliation, apology and forgiveness of General Synod 2001, an important set of documents were quietly approved.
24 August 2001
The Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania has turned to a course of legal action to resolve a dispute with one of its parishes that is seeking to remove church property from the diocese after its rector and vestry voted to form a separate corporation, and leave the Episcopal Church.
21 August 2001
Fifteen Latin American, Caribbean, and East African scholars met at Virginia Theological Seminary for four days in June to discuss a topic of persistent tension and promise -"Church Governance and Growth in a Variety of Cultures."
14 August 2001
The Lilly Endowment has awarded a grant of $419,565 to the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest that will enable the Council of Deans of all Episcopal seminaries to review theological education in the church.
14 August 2001
The United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) formally approved a proposal to enter a new ecumenical partnership with seven other denominations, Churches Uniting in Christ (CUIC), that will be inaugurated January 20, 2002 in Memphis.
14 August 2001
"There is an urgent need for us to move away from the shore and out into the deep, to have the courage to question our status quo," Cardinal Edward Cassidy, recently retired president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said during an ecumenical worship service.
14 August 2001