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January 08 2007 By virtueonline SYRACUSE, NY: The Episcopal Church Attempts to Intervene in Diocesan Lawsuit

To date, St. Andrews and its priest, Fr. Robert Hackendorf, have successfully resisted the attempt by the diocese to take the parish through legal action, when action was first taken by the diocese in July 2006 and again in September.

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January 08 2007 By virtueonline PENNSYLVANIA: Diocese in financial Free Fall

The convention then did the following:

* Reduced spending from $3.45 million approved last November to $2.28 million.

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January 06 2007 By virtueonline SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA: Bishop spins parish departure

"Votes to leave typically followed years of preaching and teaching against the Episcopal Church, our polity and our theology," he wrote.

In a "Dear Colleagues" letter, Powell said he called Bishop Lee to offer his condolences and full support and then recounted his own personal story of the departing Church of the Holy Spirit, the largest parish that fled his diocese six years ago over bad faith and morals.

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January 04 2007 By virtueonline OLYMPIA, WA: Departing Orthodox Parishes & Liberal Bishop Show Civility

Based on conversations among the leadership teams of St Charles and St Stephens parishes a plan was drawn up and all the parties signed on to it. Furthermore the process of departure was shepherded by resources within the Anglican Communion Network and ably aided as well by the Western Dean, The Rev. William Thompson. ACN determined that both parishes would come under the oversight of Recife Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti and he generously welcomed them in early October of 2004.

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January 03 2007 By virtueonline The Rev. Lauren Stanley, the Sudan, TEC, Homophobism and Fleeing Parishes

As a former Roman Catholic who walked away from that church taking nothing with her, she believes that Episcopalians who want to should leave the keys and check book at the front door on the way out. She even cites Archbishop Peter Akinola who declared that fleeing Episcopalians should be prepared to forfeit properties and pensions as they go.

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January 03 2007 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Bishop of Duham's Blast At Covenant Divides Evangelicals

The signers include such illustrious figures as evangelical patriarch the Rev. Dr. John R. W. Stott, Bishop Wallace Benn, President of the Church of England Evangelical Council, The Rev. Dick Lucas, The Rev. David Phillips, (Director of Church Society and the leadership of Church Society), The Rev. Simon Vibert (St Luke's Wimbledon Park, Diocese of Southwark and Chair of the Fellowship of Word and Spirit) and The Rev. David Petersen, (Principal of Oak Hill College) to name but a few.

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December 29 2006 By virtueonline PITTSBURGH: Liberal Parish Seeks to Reopen Property Dispute

In October 2005, a Pennsylvania state court judge approved a settlement in the lawsuit, which challenged a 2003 diocesan convention resolution asserting that congregations own their buildings and that neither the diocese nor national church structures could claim them if a parish decides to leave.

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December 28 2006 By virtueonline 2006 - THE YEAR IN REVIEW

She is the first female Primate of the worldwide Anglican Communion who, within weeks of her nomination, found herself at the center of controversy with an unacceptable rating with most of the church's archbishops because of her ultra-liberal views on theology and morality.

She is the first Primate ever, to refer to Jesus as "mother Jesus" during a homily at the 75th General Convention Eucharist beginning an alienation from orthodox Anglican believers that only got worse with time.

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December 27 2006 By virtueonline GEORGIA: Mother Church of Diocese told to pay up or get out by liberal bishop

The chancellor then made an astonishing admission. "Bishop Louttit is concerned that Lambeth 2008 may not even take place and it is certainly not clear that our Presiding Bishop will even be invited to attend. In addition, it is impossible to predict what action if any might come from that meeting should it take place."

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December 26 2006 By virtueonline VIRGINIA: Liberals Rip Actions of Episcopal Parishes, Bishops Minns and Akinola

The first blast came from Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson who wrote an article titled "Episcopalians Against Equality" in which he bemoaned, "Don't look now, but Virginia is seceding again."

He said the vote by the churches to leave was a protest "to its increasingly equal treatment of homosexuals."

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