February 10, 2012
- For Valentine's Day, candy's dandy but alternative gifts are quicker, go farther, and don't show up on the bathroom scales. CWS's Best Gift catalog offers instant-click, last minute heroes a way to win hearts.
- More than 120 people, many homeless, have died in recent days due to recent frigid temperatures in eastern Europe. The weather has also stranded people in Serbia and Bosnia, where snow levels have trapped residents in villages. Elsewhere in eastern Europe, the cold has closed schools and airports, paralyzing parts of the region.
- [Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] Becoming A Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society: An Adaptive Moment, a proposal to address and discuss potential restructuring of the Episcopal Church, is available for viewing here or here. Presented by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Bishop Stacy Sauls, Chief Operating Officer of the Episcopal Church, Becoming A [...]
- [Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] The 2012 World Mission Sunday in the Episcopal Church will focus on Mission Is Transformational. World Mission Sunday, always observed the last Sunday after Epiphany, is February 19. The annual observation was designated to increase awareness of, and participation in, the wider global mission of the Episcopal Church. “Conversations, [...]
- [Ecumenical News International] Following the re-introduction in Uganda of a bill that would harshly punish homosexuality, gay rights activists, including some church leaders, are uniting through Twitter and Facebook to oppose it. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 was revived on Jan. 7 in parliament by David Bahati, the legislator who is its architect, prompting fresh protests [...]