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>Episcopal News Service
>February 1, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Judge orders property returned to
Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - WASHINGTON: Bishop Chane to retire in 2011
* WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: President Bishop Mouneer Anis resigns
from Standing Committee
* DAYBOOK - February 2: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK: 2010 Lenten Meditations - Healing Ourselves and a Hurting  World

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

PITTSBURGH: Judge orders property returned to Episcopal Diocese of  Pittsburgh

[Episcopal News Service] A judge has told the organization headed by
former bishop Robert Duncan that claims to have withdrawn from the
Episcopal Church in 2008 that it must turn over control of the Diocese
of Pittsburgh's assets.

In a Jan. 29 order Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joseph
M. James accepted as accurate an inventory of diocesan property
submitted by a "special master" he had appointed earlier and told
Duncan's organization it must transfer the assets.

The inventory includes $22 million in cash, cash equivalents,
receivables, and investments including about $2.5 million in pooled
parish investments and real estate and other real property.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119053_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WASHINGTON: Bishop Chane to retire in 2011

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of Washington Bishop John
Bryson Chane announced Jan. 30 that he will retire in the fall of
2011.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_119046_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

MIDDLE EAST: President Bishop Mouneer Anis resigns from Standing  Committee

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] President Bishop Mouneer Anis of Jerusalem
and the Middle East has resigned from the Standing Committee of the
Anglican Communion saying that his presence has "no value whatsoever"
and that his voice is "like a useless cry in the wilderness."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_119052_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On February 2, 2010, the church remembers The Presentation of Jesus in
the Temple.

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer:

http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On February 2, 1594, Giovanni F. da Palestrina,
celebrated as one of the most gifted composers of Renaissance church
music, died.

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>CATALYST

EBaR Pick: "2010 Lenten Meditations - Healing Ourselves and a Hurting
World," Episcopal Relief & Development, 52 page paperback booklet.
This is a free resource.

[Episcopal Relief & Development] With the theme "Healing ourselves and
a hurting world," this devotional will inspire members of your
congregation to reflect on their own lives and their relationships
with a world in pain.

All meditations and artwork are courtesy of Sr. Claire Joy, Community
of the Holy Spirit.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, call 800-903-5544, or visit your
local Episcopal bookstore.