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 enormous changes in Canadian society over the past several decades have put clergy under more physical and mental stress than ever and the church is seeking ways to improve and support clergy and staff well-being.
25 April 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
The Revd Canon Dr Eugene R Fairweather, a Canadian Anglican theologian and ecumenist of international stature, died on Saturday 6 April, in Nova Scotia.
10 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
Over the past ten days, suicide bombings in Israel and armoured invasions in the Occupied Territories have galvanized the attention of people around the world.
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