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We had seen things no human being should see

We had seen things no human being should see

We didn't hear anything (because the first plane went into the north tower of the WTC, the farthest from Trinity) but I noticed all these papers floating through the air. I went over to the window and looked up and as high as one could see there was paper floating down, sparkling in the bright sunlight.

24 September 2001

Episcopal chaplains respond to Pentagon disaster

Episcopal chaplains respond to Pentagon disaster

About 100 yards out of the building people began to turn around and point up in the air at a plume of smoke coming from about a third of the way around the building. At that point I still thought it was a bomb. Only later did someone tell me that a plane had crashed into the building.

24 September 2001

To Haiti, with love

To Haiti, with love

To many teens, spring break means partying on the beach, cruising downtown, hanging out with friends at dance clubs and malls. But for several students at York School in Monterey, California, spring signals a return visit to the desperately poor country of Haiti.

17 September 2001

Anglican Church of Canada urges Anglicans write their MPs about schools

Anglican Church of Canada urges Anglicans write their MPs about schools

Canadian Anglicans are again being urged to write their members of Parliament and local newspapers to express their views on the litigation surrounding residential schools.

14 September 2001

AAC statement on the AMiA Denver Consecrations

AAC statement on the AMiA Denver Consecrations

We are disappointed and saddened by the recent actions of some of our brothers and sisters in the Anglican Mission in American, specifically the recent consecrations in Denver, which can only be interpreted as divisive of our common life in Christ.

07 September 2001

Haiti Connection Conference to bring mission groups together in Port-au-Prince

Haiti Connection Conference to bring mission groups together in Port-au-Prince

Episcopal mission groups active in Haiti will join with Haitian diocesan leaders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 24, 25 and 26 October to share a vision and continue to build relationships.

05 September 2001

CSR calls for Australia to provide safe haven for people rescued from sinking ferry

CSR calls for Australia to provide safe haven for people rescued from sinking ferry

The Center for Seafarers Rights (CSR) of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey urged the Australian government today provide safe haven for accept the people rescued from a sinking Indonesian ferry by the M/V Tampa, a Norwegian ship.

03 September 2001

Native elder dies at 85: Primate presented Vi Smith with church's highest award before her death

Native elder dies at 85: Primate presented Vi Smith with church's highest award before her death

Vi Smith, a well-known lay person and elder with the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, died recently at the age of 85.

30 August 2001

The Episcopal Church's response to Israeli occupation of Beit Jala

The Episcopal Church's response to Israeli occupation of Beit Jala

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

Center for Seafarers' Rights calls for end to exploitation of workers in Nairobi, Kenya

Center for Seafarers' Rights calls for end to exploitation of workers in Nairobi, Kenya

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