Sunday, March 11, 2007

News Briefs

GENEVA – Four United Nations envoys on Friday condemned a proposed Nigerian law banning same-sex marriages as a violation of international human rights law. (Read the Reuters article here.)
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NEW HAMPSHIRE -- To celebrate NHPR's twenty-fifth anniversary, we continue our series with New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, the church’s first openly gay and non-celibate Bishop. We'll talk with him about his time with the church and what his role as Bishop has meant to him, to the state and the church in general. We’ll also get his perspective on how the Granite State has grown and changed over the last 25 years in not only faith and religion, but in general. (Listen to the NPR interview here.)
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SOUTH AFRICA -- More than 400 people from 30 of the Anglican Communion's 38 provinces are attending the March 7-14 TEAM conference to review the Communion's response to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how the church can do more as one of the world's largest grassroots development networks. The conference is also meant to "encourage a prophetic articulation for an Anglican theology which supports witness and action for social justice." (Read the ENS article here.)
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ROCHESTER, NEW YORK -- Feline members of the Bradley-Hopkins family have lost their appeal for alternative oversight on the feeding time issue threatening to polarize the household. The ruling came today that "mysterious feline primates have no jurisdiction in this house." No word yet if there will be further appeals. (Read the entire Blog post -- and see the adorable picture -- here.)

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