Episcopal Relief and Development based in the United states of America, has sent an emergency grant of $25,000 assistance through, following a major earthquake in El Salvador, in which hundreds have died and tens of thousands were left without homes.
07 February 2001
The leaders of nine Canadian churches have called for a peace settlement in the Middle East that would guarantee "peaceful existence within secure borders" for both Israelis and Palestinians.
07 February 2001
10 days have passed after the earthquake that has desolated our country. I can say that Salvadorans are now waking up from this horrible nightmare; we begin to look at everything with more calm and we find 98 municipalities of the national territory are practically destroyed.
26 January 2001
This is the second official statement from Bishop Martín Barahona to the members of the Episcopal Church in El Salvador, in the Central Region of America, in the United States and in other places of the world, to all our friends.
19 January 2001
This report is the result of an emergency committee raised from the clergy and diocesan personnel.... As of today, our congregations have not reported deaths but only damages of infrastructure, and of course, the psychological damage we all have experienced and the suffering because of so much devastation.
17 January 2001
While the people of El Salvador continue to dig out from a disastrous 13 January earthquake, living in fear of additional aftershocks, authorities are trying to assess the damage.
17 January 2001
"Stewardship: Living Our Covenant With God" is the fifth International Leadership Development Conference sponsored by The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS) for lay leaders, clergy and diocesan staff.
17 January 2001
The extraordinary Pastoral Synod convened by the Episcopal Church of Cuba which included delegates from women, young people and men from organised and non-organised missions, said the Church must develop a more communitarian character in order to carry out its mission in the current Cuban ecclesiastical and social context.
17 January 2001
More than 525 leaders of faith communities, including at least 45 Episcopalians, have signed a letter to President Clinton urging him to commute the sentences of low-level, non-violent federal drug offenders.
17 January 2001
It is a historical fact that Anglicans and Lutherans have no mutual doctrinal anathemae between them. Yet they have acted over the years as if they were separated by mutual condemnations.
11 January 2001