While former president Jimmy Carter visits Cuba in hopes of improving diplomatic relations between the island nation and the US, Anglicans in Cuba are quietly seeking to rejoin the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) after a 35-year separation.
23 May 2002
With comprehensive hate crimes bills just a few days away from appearing on the Senate's agenda, more than 130 Episcopal clergy have signed a letter calling on Congress to pass legislation to fight hate crimes in the United States.
13 May 2002
She was supposed to have died, but had switched with a colleague, and now the flight attendant pointed at the pit. "This is hell," she said. It was very early in the morning and the woman, who smelled of alcohol and was drenched in tears, seemed beyond the comfort of the attentive priest at her side.
08 May 2002
The Revd Dr Titus Presler has been named dean and president of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest.
23 April 2002
Episcopal congregations across the country are encouraged to join others that minister to mariners on America's inland waterways through Ministry on the River's ecumenical River Friendly Church program.
23 April 2002
A delegation of US Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican Church leaders are visiting the Middle East between April 16 and 27. Planned for several months, the trip is "all the more urgent" given the deepening crisis, said the delegation's leader, the Revd Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches.
23 April 2002
Amid the terrible surge of violence in the Holy Land, I wish to thank you for your decision to send Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region and for your call for Israeli forces to withdraw from Palestinian cities.
08 April 2002
Presiding Bishop Hanson of the ELCA has sent this letter to President Bush with a copy to Secretary Powell. The letter from Jerusalem Christian leaders that he enclosed with this letter follows:
03 April 2002
The current round of violence in Israel and the occupied territories has brought the crisis to its lowest and most dangerous ebb in many years.
03 April 2002
Katherine Tyler Scott, president of Trustee Leadership Development Inc, noted author and leadership educator, has been elected president of the board of the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes,
26 March 2002