The Rt Revd Leo Frade, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, has expressed his concern for the plight of the Haitian refugees who arrived on American soil this week.
06 November 2002
News that a car bomb had exploded outside police headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, on October 22, killing two and wounding 36, saddened but did not surprise Richard Parkins, director of Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM).
30 October 2002
The 143rd convention of the Diocese of Kansas narrowly defeated a resolution opposing Bishop William Smalley's policy of blessings for couples outside of marriage in a vote that was characterized by people on both sides of the issue as "prayerful" and "grace-filled."
24 October 2002
The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church in the USA affirmed their solidarity with the Episcopal Church and the suffering people of Colombia through prayer and witness. The council met mid-October in Wyoming.
23 October 2002
The Revd Paul Matthew Washington, rector of North Philadelphia's Church of the Advocate for 25 years, died Monday of heart failure in Philadelphia at the age of 81.
18 October 2002
The Anglican Library Society has been established out of St Paul's Parish in Riverside, Illinois. The Society supports people in the Anglican Communion charged with running church libraries, websites, and archives.
18 October 2002
Historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, caught fire on 9 October and the sanctuary of the 82-year-old structure is a "total loss." Smoke damaged the rest of the building and the cathedral's 3,000-pipe organ, dedicated just last November, sustained "significant damage," according to the Fire Department.
14 October 2002
Faced with a strong "mind of the house" resolution that would have chastised colleagues for "inappropriate behaviour" that threatens the unity of the church, the bishops of the Episcopal Church, meeting in Cleveland, asked the Committee on Pastoral Care to find a better way to deal with the issues.
10 October 2002
"The AIDS pandemic is still in its infancy," warned Stephen Lewis, special envoy for the secretary general of the United Nations in Africa, in a speech at the Cleveland meeting of the House of Bishops on October 1. "And it could spread rapidly to other places on the globe."
10 October 2002
Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk and poet: "If we attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, our own freedom, integrity and capacity to love, we will not have anything to give to others. We will communicate nothing but the contagion of our own obsessions, our aggressiveness, our own ego-centered ambitions."
01 October 2002