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 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
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
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
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
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
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