Amie Newman’s Blog (Managing Editor for RH Reality Check, an award-winning, daily online publication covering global reproductive and sexual health news and … www.huffingtonpost.com/amie-newman ) (July, 2010) Haitian women are fighting for their lives – and the lives of their children. There is no simpler way to put it. Since a devastating earthquake brought the…
Category Archives: Haiti
Haiti diocesan-reconstruction plan symbolizes ‘new vision,’ bishop says
The Rev. Will Wauters, San Antonio, TX was EPF’s representative to the ‘Haiti Connection’ meeting where he delivered a check to Bishop Duracin from the sale of ‘Haiti-EPF T-shirts. From ENS: Haitian Connection meeting hears that ‘dependency holds back development’ By Mary Frances Schjonberg, November 05, 2010 [Episcopal News Service – Miami] The first phase…
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba: Southern Africa Visits Haiti
‘The Anglican Communion needs to be actively involved in helping the rebuilding and healing of Haiti, working with the Église Épiscopale d’Haïti (the Anglican/Episcopal Diocese of Haiti) and its bishop the Rt Revd Zaché Duracin.’ This was the message that Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa wanted to share with the…
The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council’s Peace & Justice Resolutions
The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council met February 19-22, 2010 and passed the following resolutions on peace and justice. From the General Convention website, “The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church is an elected body representing the whole Church. In the course of the three years between convention, known as the “triennium”, the Executive Council will…
HAITI now and then: So Close and Yet So Far
Cecelia Lynch, Associate Professor, Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Director, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies and EPF member “The sound rose up and spread across the rooftops of the old city, a deep, guttural, Biblical sound—the sound of souls wailing by the thousands.” This is not a description of post-earthquake Haiti, but a…
Praying for Haiti – Lent 2010
The devastating earthquake in Haiti destroyed the tools of many empowering Episcopal ministries in the Diocese of Haiti. Episcopal churches, primary and secondary schools, universities and vocational schools, hospitals and clinics no longer are able to serve the countless Haitians who depend on these institutions for their spiritual, educational and medical needs. One of the…
