April 1, 2002 Controversy delays vote for new bishop

Havana The bishop of Cuba has postponed an electoral synod to choose a successor in light of deep division in the Cuban church. Bishop Jorge Perera Hurtado was himself appointed in 1994 after an electoral synod failed to...

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April 1, 2002 Traveller's Notebook

THE opening procession for the inaugural service of the 93rd synod of the Episcopalian Church in Cuba was led off by the dean's dog, Puchurro. The dog, who had the low slung and bouncing step of a dachshund but the coat of a...

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April 1, 2002 At the edge of Ground Zero

Six months to the day after the terrorist attack on New York City, the interior of St. Paul's Chapel adjacent to the site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center stood, remains decorated with banners and hundreds of...

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April 1, 2002 Anglican priest awarded world's richest prize

New York Rev. John C. Polkinghorne, a mathematical physicist who amazed his scientific colleagues more than 20 years ago by becoming an Anglican priest, has won the 2002 Templeton Prize, one of the world's most prestigious...

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April 1, 2002 Ecumenical team to probe allegations of child abuse by aid workers

New York The World Council of Churches (WCC), along with Action by Churches Together (ACT) International and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) are sending an ecumenical team to West Africa to investigate allegations of the...

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April 1, 2002 New Roman diocese in Russia strains relations

Moscow The Vatican has set up Roman Catholic dioceses in Russia, satisfying the repeated requests of its small Russian flock but plunging to new depths in its relations with the Russian Orthodox Church. The Vatican...

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April 1, 2002 Truth-telling is the path to healing, Tutu tells U.S. audience

Cambridge, Mass. Healing can happen when you give truth-telling a chance. That was the good news that Desmond Tutu, the retired archbishop of Cape Town in South Africa, brought to the Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in...

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April 1, 2002 New president bishop

Cairo (ACNS)-Bishop Clive Handford of Cyprus and the Gulf has been elected president bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East following the retirement of Bishop Iraj Mottahedeh this monthl. Bishop...

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April 1, 2002 Child abuse probed

Sydney (ENI)-Australia's Anglican Church has announced an enquiry into child abuse in church institutions amid continuing criticism of the country's constitutional head of state - a former Anglican archbishop - over handling...

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April 1, 2002 Ecumenical meeting

Nairobi (Staff)-Ecumenism continued apace with an international meeting in Nairobi in January of Anglicans and Baptists. The Anglican Church of Canada's director of faith, worship and ministry, Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan,...

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