(By James Solheim ENS) In a sweeping liturgy that combined soaring choral music, the heady rhythms of Native American drums and African American spirituals, with the spectacle and colour of stately processions, Frank Tracy Griswold of Chicago was invested as the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church at Washington National Cathedral January 10.
18 January 1998
Grace and peace to those of you who are present in this sacred space representing the Episcopal Church, our world-wide Anglican Communion, the ancient churches of the East and West, the churches of the Reformation, and the two other faith communities
12 January 1998
Good Shepherd Mission, Fort Defiance, Ariz, is much more than a simple parish church, although it is that. In its 103-year history, it has been a hospital, school, orphanage and training centre. Currently, mental health, AODA and traditional healing, Americorp and a community college rent space inexpensively. There is housing for teachers in the local school system.
12 January 1998
The American Bible Society (ABS) is giving $5 million to a project intended to link every church in North America to the World Wide Web.
23 December 1997
Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning has renewed the Episcopal Church's call for the Israeli government to share Jerusalem as the capital of two sovereign states, Israel and Palestine.
23 December 1997
A bomb thrown into the property of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I seriously injured an Orthodox deacon and damaged a portion of the Cathedral of St George in Istanbul, Turkey, in early December.
23 December 1997
The Washington National (Anglican) Cathedral has filed a lawsuit against Warner Brothers and its parent company, Time-Warner, for "illicit use" of a cathedral sculpture in the film, "The Devil's Advocate".
22 December 1997
The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief recently issued $50,000 in emergency grants in response to civil unrest and natural disaster in Sierra Leone, Kenya and Spain.
22 December 1997
Recent diplomatic overtures by the United States that would increase the flow of humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people are welcome indeed. I have been deeply pained to see the suffering and death among the innocent of Iraq since the implementation of sanctions seven years ago. I have repeatedly called for the provision of humanitarian aid. It was an enormous relief to see an agreement last year which now allows the sale of a limited amount of Iraqi oil for humanitarian purposes. Any willingness by the United States to increase such aid is to be encouraged. But the current proposal probably does not go far enough.
25 November 1997
A $25,000 emergency grant has been sent to Bishop Jose Saucedo Mendoza in the Diocese of Cuernavaca to help with emergency efforts in the areas near Guerrero and Alcopulco, Mexico, following the destructive floods and mud slides caused by Hurricane Paula in early October.
31 October 1997