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1. Episcopal bishops reject Anglican primates' recent communiqué on issues of governance and homosexuality.

2. Jefferts Schori invalidates the election of a conservative bishop in South Carolina.

3. The Supreme Court is hearing the 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case. (If you want to know what a bong hit is, see The Wall Street Journal's article.)

4. Christians participate in protesting the Iraq war on its 4th anniversary.

5. Harvard will return the ancient bells they acquired from a Moscow church in the 1930's.

Index | Episcopal response to Anglican communiqué | Conservative Episcopal vote overridden | Anglican rift | Catholicism | Evangelicalism and church life | Sanctuary | Global warming | Malaria | Islam | Indonesian beheading trial | Crime | Bong Hits 4 Jesus | Iraq war protests | Church and state | Politics | Candidates | People | Books and entertainment | Same-sex marriage | Homosexuality | Morality | Life ethics | Mexico abortion bill | Purity balls | Education | Harvard bells | Lent | Other

Episcopal response to Anglican communiqué:

• American bishops reject primates' communiqué | The House of Bishops has declined to participate in a pastoral initiative designed by the primates to care for congregations and dioceses which for reasons of conscience cannot accept the Episcopal ministry of their bishop or primate. (Anglican Mainstream)
  
  
• Anglicans closer to schism as US bishops reject gay ultimatum | The Anglican Church took another step towards its apparently inevitable schism when US Episcopal bishops rejected the ultimatum from primates of the Anglican Communion to fall into line over homosexuals. (The Times)
  
  
• Bishops' 'Mind of the House' resolutions | Mind of the House of Bishops Resolution Addressed to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church (Episcopal News Service)
  
  
• Episcopal bishops in U.S. defy Anglican Communion | The nation's Episcopal bishops have rejected a key demand from the larger Anglican Communion, saying a plan to place discontented U.S. parishes under international leadership could do permanent harm to the American church (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Episcopal bishops reject Anglican demands | In a clear message that could jeopardize the Episcopal Church's standing within the communion, the resolutions rejected the so-called "pastoral scheme" that resulted from a meeting of Anglican leaders, or primates, last month in Tanzania, saying "it would be injurious to the Episcopal Church" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Episcopal bishops reject Anglican ultimatum on gays | They branded the Communion's demands "spiritually unsound" and called for an urgent meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Communion leadership (USA Today)
  
  
• Episcopal bishops spurn demands from Anglicans | They dismiss foreign control, renew support for gays and lesbians (TheHouston Chronicle)
  
  
• Episcopal Church rejects demand for a 2nd leadership | Bishops rejected a demand to create a parallel leadership to serve the minority who oppose their church's liberal stand on homosexuality (The New York Times)
  
  
• Episcopal-Anglican rift deepens | U.S. bishops say no to a key demand (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Global Anglican dispute remains after U.S. meeting | U.S. Episcopal Church leaders said on Wednesday they wanted to remain in the global Anglican Communion but rejected a demand they give up authority over conservative American parishes opposed to their stance on gay issues. (Reuters)
  
  
• U.S. Episcopal bishops reject call for a second leader | They say acceding to anti-gay-bishop parishes could split church (The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.)
  
  

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