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• Archbishop blamed for Vatican offer: CEN 11.13.09 p 7.

  
  Conger — Authority: 430
  The Archbishop of Canterbury’s shameful failure of leadership lies behind the Pope’s offer of a home for alienated Anglicans, the primates’ council of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON/FCA) said in a statement released on Nov 10. While Pope Benedict XVI’s offer of an “Apostolic Constitution” ...
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• The Toilet is still a luxury for 2.5 billion people worldwide…

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 123
  It had to happen sooner or later: a world day dedicated to, ahem, toilets. When all sorts of public interest causes are claiming the 365 days of our year, it was only a matter of time.19 November is World Toilet Day – a day to celebrate the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise [...]
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• Vandana Shiva on How We The Rich World Can Stop Hurting the Poor World

  
  Casaubon's Book — Authority: 498
  I really recommend this video, in which Vandana Shiva articulates how people in the Global North can relieve some of the tremendous ecological pressure on people in the Global South. It is couched in the context of Transition Initiatives, but can just as easily apply to neighborhood or personal level actions.    ...
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• A Statement from the GAFCON/FCA Primates Council in response to the Pope’s Offer

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 547
  We have received the Archbishop of Canterbury’s letter informing us of the Pope’s offer of an ‘Apostolic Constitution’ for those Anglicans who wish to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. We believe that this offer is a gracious one and reflects the same commitment to the historic apostolic faith, ...
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• From the Maldives to Boulder, Colorado: ‘Small Islands’ film making waves…

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 123
  y good friend Dilrukshi Handunnetti, a leading investigative journalist in Sri Lanka, is currently on a Jefferson Fellowship traveling in the United States. She is one of a dozen journalists from the Asia Pacific who have been competitively chosen to participate in this prestigious programme, which in 2009 is focusing ...
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• Massive Malaria Vaccine Trial Begins

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 721
  A new vaccine trial is underway in Africa in an attempt to control malaria, a disease that not only kills 1 million people every year, but also makes 300 million seriously sick. If the trial results come back positive, a worldwide vaccine could be available as soon as 2012. Los Angeles Times: Each year, malaria ...
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• Tap wealth of local products emerging to fight ‘neglected’ diseases of poor: study

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 126
  Experts propose ‘Global Health Accellerator’ to help new drugs, diagnostics, vaccines reach distant marketsResearch firms in developing countries have a medicine cabinet full of affordable and innovative drugs, diagnostics and vaccines on shelves or in development to address “neglected tropical diseases” but ...
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• Orombi: Faith of our fathers

  
  Northwest Anglican — Authority: 119
  A man whom I respect greatly, the Anglican archbishop of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi recently gave a message in Geneva, Switzerland. When I was confirmed as an Anglican I was confirmed by a pastor in the Church of Uganda serving under Archbishop Orombi so in some way he is a spiritual father to me. Here are some ...
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• TRUE MUSIC, BUBU MUSIC

  
  DUTTY ARTZ — Authority: 124
  Ahmed Janka Nabay gets mentioned in a New York Times CMJ rundown ; There was also an African apparition: Janka Nabay from Sierra Leone, wearing a straw skirt and singing and dancing to recorded tracks of what he said was a 500-year-old tradition called bubu music. The tracks were modern, and the beat, fast and ...
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• EU Agrees to Pre-Copenhagen Deal

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 721
  It looks like the EU is anteing up for December’s Copenhagen conference on global warming, agreeing to a conditional deal that estimates climate change will need almost $150 billion every year until 2020, and that the EU is prepared to pay its “fair share”—though poorer countries say it’s still not enough. ...
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• Southern Sudan

  
  Lent & Beyond — Authority: 438
  Matthew 12:18-21 Young’s Literal Translation Lo, My servant, whom I did choose, My beloved, in whom My soul did delight, I will put My Spirit upon him . . . a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory, and in his name shall nations hope.’ ...
  4 weeks ago

• Southern Sudan

  
  Lent & Beyond — Authority: 438
  More details on the murder of Archdeacon Joseph Mabior Garang at the altar during a service of Morning Prayer. Witnesses report that Mabior was shot twice in the legs and that his attackers may have also used a military knife called a “sonki.” After the first shots, 30 men and women from the church and town, ...
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• Ross Douthat: Benedict’s Gambit

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 547
  The news media have portrayed this rightward outreach largely through the lens of culture-war politics — as an attempt to consolidate, inside the Catholic tent, anyone who joins the Vatican in rejecting female priests and gay marriage. But in making the opening to Anglicanism, Benedict also may have a deeper ...
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• Global South Primates Steering Comm:A Pastoral Exhortation to the Faithful in the Anglican Communion

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 547
  4. At the same time we believe that the proposed Anglican Covenant sets the necessary parameters in safeguarding the catholic and apostolic faith and order of the Communion. It gives Anglican churches worldwide a clear and principled way forward in pursuing God’s divine purposes together in the one, holy, catholic ...
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• Spirit of Freedom Prisoner Listing Oct 2009

  
  Earth First! Action Reports - Direct action - no leaders - confront, stop & reverse the destruction of the earth — Authority: 132
  Spirit of Freedom (October 2009) Produced by EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK "The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!" (Former Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner) read more
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