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February 09 2004
KENTUCKY: St. Andrew's pastor feels called to Versailles
It's a decision he and his wife have struggled with. "Claire has asked
me a million times, 'Are you sure you're getting this right?'" he told
his new congregation yesterday. "I have told her time and time again,
'Yes, this is the Lord.'"
Brannen, the new rector of St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Versailles,
said he has felt called by God before, in 1990.
February 09 2004
PERSECUTION IN THE CHURCH - Barnabas Fund Reports
A call by more than 200 mainly Muslim intellectuals and political
leaders from Iraq to stop attacks on Christians and cease forcing women
to wear the veil was published on Sunday 4 January on the Arabic website
Elaph [
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=55&topic=6 ].
The call was directed at Muslim clerics, the Iraqi Governing Council and
February 09 2004
Some Christians See 'Passion' as Evangelism Tool
Three weeks before the release of "The Passion of the Christ," a graphic
portrayal of the torture and crucifixion of Jesus, Christians nationwide
are busy preparing to use it in an immense grass-roots evangelistic
campaign.
February 08 2004
FLORIDA: ORTHODOX PRIEST SHOWN THE DOOR AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
But then he got a surprise. "On Thursday, Feb. 5, I was told I could stay and preach the following Sunday. Then at 4pm on Thursday I got a call from the bishop's assistant saying that I could not preach on Sunday someone else would, but I could address the congregation at the "peace" and that a pre-arranged plan to have a vote on whether to stay or leave was now cancelled."
I was officially inhibited, he told Virtuosity.
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February 07 2004
BREAKING NEWS: FOURTEEN PRIMATES AFFIRM NEW NETWORK
If his consecration proceeds, we recognise that we have reached a crucial and critical point in the life of the Anglican Communion and we have had to conclude that the future of the Communion itself will be put in jeopardy. In this case, the ministry of this one bishop will not be recognised by most of the Anglican world, and many provinces are likely to consider themselves to be out of Communion with the Episcopal Church (USA).
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February 07 2004
World Anglican leaders support U.S. Episcopal group that opposes gay clergy
Their message spurns the leaders and policies of the Episcopal Church, which is the U.S. branch of the international Anglican Communion. The action gives the new U.S. conservative organization a claim to religious legitimacy as it seeks to gain supporters.
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February 07 2004
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: New Westminster and New Hampshire actions harm Church Unity
The Statement of the Primates of the Anglican Communion (16 October 2003) rightly judged that these actions threaten the unity of our own Communion a s well as our relationships with other parts of Christ's Church, our mission and witness, and our relations with other faiths, in a world already confused in areas of sexuality, morality and theology, and polarise Christian opinion.
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February 07 2004
GUATEMALA DISASSOCIATES ITSELF FROM IARCA AND ROBINSON CONSECRATION
This election, consent and consecration would have been one more act in the long line of apostolic succession in the Episcopal Church had if not been for the fact that the Rt Revd Gene Robinson is a declared homosexual that cohabits with another man in a relationship that is no secret, rather openly known and tolerated in the Diocese of New Hampshire and the rest of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
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February 06 2004
Episcopalians may limit church funding
The conference is the first in Mississippi since the consecration of
openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire in 2003 and the
approval of same-sex unions.
The Rev. Reed Freeman, rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in
Hattiesburg, said his church probably lost some members over the
controversy, but said those who left may be people who weren't involved
in the church.
February 06 2004
New bishop of Florida won't ordain gays or celebrate their unions
Clarifying his own place in the disagreement after months of silence,
the newly installed bishop said he would not ordain active homosexuals
or allow their unions to be celebrated, but promised to oppose any
limits on the diocese's participation in the national Episcopal Church.
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