May 24, 2013
[Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts press release] The Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, met with his doctors at the Dana Farber Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in Boston May 24 and learned that the tumor removed from his brain last Friday is indeed cancerous. He will begin both radiation and chemotherapy in the next few weeks.
“This is hard news for all of us to hear,” the Rev. Canon Mally Lloyd, Canon to the...
[Lambeth Palace -- Press Release] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said today that “all our prayers and mine” are with the family of Lee Rigby, the British soldier killed in Woolwich on Wednesday. In a joint press conference in Leicester with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, the Archbishop praised the responses of different faith groups to the incident and said this is “very much a time for communities to come together”.
The Archbishop made the...
Elio Masferrer Kan, doctor en antropología y miembro del sistema nacional de investigadores, ha concluido mediante un análisis del último censo del Instituto Nacional de Estadística en comparación con los publicados por la Iglesia Católica Romana que hay discrepancias considerables, tanto en la cantidad de feligreses, como en la cantidad de clérigos, monjas y monjes. Masferrer autor de La pluralidad religiosa en México, crisis y proyecciones cree que las estadísticas en su país “hacen...
[Gathering -- Press Release] Snowcapped mountains formed the background this week in Colorado when 87 Generation X and Millenial clergy met to explore a hopeful vision for the Episcopal Church. Participants came from all over the country from a variety of contexts for ministry. There was no agenda beyond the intention to build relationship by listening carefully for the values that motivate their ministry.
The conference was peer led, facilitated primarily by The Rev....
[Church of England] The Church of England has published new legislative proposals to enable women to become bishops which will be debated by the General Synod in July.
This will be the first occasion that synod members have met since November 2012, when the previous legislation narrowly failed to secure the requisite majority in all three houses (laity,...
May 23, 2013
[Episcopal Relief & Development -- Press Release] In Puxi Village, a tiny locale in the Hunan Province of south central China, Liqin (Lee-cheen) greeted her visitors warmly and invited them into her home for lunch. She had just been packing up a meal to take to her husband, who was doing farm work in the field down the hill from their home. As she turned on the tap in her...