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March 15 2007 By virtueonline ALBANY: New Bishop Is Committed To Anglican Communion

Bishop Love lives up to his name. He is a humble, loving, pastoral soul; deeply concerned for every life he touches. His gentleness, though, should not be mistaken for weakness. He is thoroughly orthodox in faith and morals. He is a Nashotah House graduate, and sees himself as Anglo-Catholic (liturgically), Evangelical (gospel driven), and Charismatic - the gifts of the Spirit including healing are a big part of the diocese's outreach ministry.

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March 07 2007 By virtueonline OREGON: Executive Council Cries Deficit. Diocesan Pledges Down. Legal Costs Up

The Executive Council, which met in Portland, Oregon, also called for the establishment of a task force "to look at steps and strategies necessary to achieve a balanced budget in 2008 and 2009" without increasing the payout ratio or drawing down reserves.

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March 07 2007 By virtueonline PENNSYLVANIA: Standing Committee Blasts TEC For Withholding Info. about Bennison

The Standing Committee, a majority of the Diocesan Council, and most priests in the diocese, now want Bennison gone. He has resisted all efforts to have him either resign or retire.

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March 04 2007 By virtueonline Just Who Is Doing The Pushing & Splitting?

Laurie Goodstein, religion writer for The New York Times framed the issue on National Public Radio Tuesday, by saying that it is the "conservatives" who is pushing everyone else to adopt their "orthodoxy" that is threatening to split the communion.

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March 01 2007 By virtueonline Is An Anglican Divorce Inevitable?

Two scenarios, however, do present themselves as possible options: One is that the Global South Primates, lead by Nigerian Primate Peter Akinola and eleven of his fellow archbishops, could decide to leave and form their own communion, by simply refusing to attend Canterbury in 2008 and setting up a parallel Lambeth style conference on African soil.

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February 27 2007 By virtueonline FUTURE OF COMMUNION HANGS PRECARIOUSLY IN THE BALANCE

Despite these strong and solemn words, the future of the Anglican Communion still hangs precariously in the balance. Nothing is written in stone. Despite a time line and a paper thin agreement that the Episcopal Church must conform absolutely to the Windsor Report or face ecclesiastical retribution, the Anglican Communion could still come apart at the seams before the next Lambeth conference.

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February 25 2007 By virtueonline MARYLAND:Bishop Withdraws Invitation to West African Primate over Eucharist Snub

The snub by Ihloff intensifies the sharp differences and highlights the ecclesiastical culture wars now being fought publicly and openly between Western heterodox Episcopal bishops and orthodox Global South bishops and archbishops.

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February 23 2007 By virtueonline ARCHBISHOP NDUNGANE ADMITS POVERTY EXISTS

"By 2010 we are talking about 50 million orphans in Sub Saharan Africa as a consequence of war, famine, droughts, and preventable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. We know that there are more than 800 million people living in poverty in the world ... this is not only immoral, it is a sin, it is evil."

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February 22 2007 By virtueonline PRIMATES DRAW LINE IN THE SAND FOR UNRULY CHURCH

"We came very close to separation," said Southern Cone Archbishop Gregory Venables of this weekend's meeting of global Anglican leaders, "but Biblical doctrine and behavior have been affirmed as the norms in the Anglican Church," he told First Things magazine.

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February 19 2007 By virtueonline Williams Endorsement of Gay Agenda Revealed in S.P.R.E.A.D Document

A team of theologians headed by the Rt. Rev. John Rodgers produced the document believing that the Anglican Communion has not been made fully aware of the archbishop's views that are at variance with the vast majority of 78-million Anglicans most of whom reside in the Global South and who eschew homosexuality.

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