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12/06/10--13:49: Climate justice is focus of four-day Episcopal/Anglican gathering in Dominican Republic (chan 1829024)

Reposted from Episcopal News Service…. By Lynette Wilson, December 06, 2010 [Episcopal News Service] Anglican and Episcopal leaders from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean are arriving Dec. 6 in the Dominican Republic for a four-day gathering to explore … Continue reading →


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12/08/10--06:39: In Dominican Republic, gathering explores climate justice perspectives (chan 1829024)

Reposted from Episcopal Church News:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_126095_ENG_HTM.htm By Lynette Wilson, December 08, 2010 [Episcopal News Service] What started in 2004 as a 2,000-square-foot organic garden behind La Iglesia Santa Maria Virgen in Itabo, Cuba, grew to a community-wide project that empowered people … Continue reading →


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12/10/10--06:59: Update From DR:: Statement, Commitments Forthcoming (chan 1829024)

Dear Friends: It is impossible to describe the gratitude I feel at this moment. For the last four days I have experienced a tremendous outpouring of love, community, and solidarity.  God has been made real to me, by sisters and … Continue reading →


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12/12/10--18:17: Deforestation, intensive storms and floods show effects of climate change in Dominican Republic (chan 1829024)

Reposted from Episcopal News Service http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_126122_ENG_HTM.htm By Lynette Wilson, December 09, 2010 [Episcopal News Service – San Pedro, Dominican Republic] It is estimated that by 2050, 80 percent of the rivers in the Dominican Republic will have dried up unless something … Continue reading →


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12/12/10--19:13: Update: Final Report from DR meeting still forthcoming, floods in Panama… (chan 1829024)

We are in the process of making final edits to the statement from conference participants and the commitments we have made to each other going forward.  These both will be posted as soon as they are completed.  You might consider … Continue reading →


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12/15/10--06:26: In the darkness, hope awaits (chan 1829024)

Reposted from: Episcopal News Service: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_126199_ENG_HTM.htm By Stephen Blackmer, December 14, 2010 [Episcopal News Service] Last week’s gathering in the Dominican Republic of Episcopalians and Anglicans from Latin American, the Caribbean and the United States — bishops, clergy, staff, seminarians and … Continue reading →


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01/13/11--15:42: Disobedience: direct action on global warming, by Bill McKibben (chan 1829024)

From the Christian Century. Dec 27, 2010 by Bill McKibben If there was ever an issue about which civil disobedience should not be required, global warming is it. It’s not like the civil rights movement, in which protesters had to break through … Continue reading →


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01/16/11--06:22: Final Statement and Commitments from December Meeting (chan 1829024)

December 7-10, 2010 Episcopal-Anglican Climate Justice Gathering Bishop Kellogg Conference Center, San Pedro de Macorís *** STATEMENT AND COMMITMENTS*** We are a group of Anglican Episcopals from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States who feel the urgency of addressing … Continue reading →


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03/08/11--17:39: Presiding bishop’s message for Lent: Are you traveling light on the earth? (chan 1829024)

By Katharine Jefferts Schori, March 08, 2011 Reposted from: [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church observes Lent in solidarity with Christians throughout the ages. Lent has anciently been understood as a time of solidarity with those who are to be baptized … Continue reading →


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09/19/11--16:16: Brazil’s Anglican Church works with indigenous people in their fight for land, existence (chan 1829024)

Reposted from Episcopal News Service By Lynette Wilson, September 16, 2011 [Episcopal News Service] Guarani Chief Pedro Alves lives with his people in Tekoa Vy’a Renda Poty, a tiny village owned by the city of Santa Helena in the southern Brazil … Continue reading →


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