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5B RELIGIONACte dsrlatu $otlt Thursday, January 22, 2004 Conservative Episcopalians plan for future By Richard N. Ostling THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PLANO, Tbxas - Conserv ative Episcopalians appeared on track to launch a new nationwide protest organization Tuesday as they begem the second and final day of a meeting to launch their Network of Anglican Communion Dioce ses and Parishes. The movement, which hopes for significant support from foreign Anglicans, was prompted by the decision of an Episcopal Church con vention last August to approve openly gay Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. But Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, the group’s leader, told a Monday news briefing that Robinson’s name wasn’t even men tioned during the first days deliberations. Instead, he said, the 100 bishops, representing 12 dio ceses and various conserva tive parishes in other dioce ses, focused on building “a united, orthodox and mis sionary Anglicanism” in the ' United States. The delegates at the meet ing plan to complete an orga nizational charter for the network. They also are try ing to produce a new theo logical statement based upon previous conservative platforms. Organizers say the net work is no schism but a “church within a church” whose followers will remain Episcopalians. One reason not to quit: most parishes would be forced to surrender their properties to the denomination. Duncan said the Episcopal Church “split from its own history’ when it endorsed Robinson, while the network upholds traditional Episco pal teaching, “so who left?” Episcopal Church head quarters in New York has issued no formal statement about the meeting. The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of the inter national Anglican Commu nion, in which many over seas churches have protest ed Robinson’s consecration. Some have broken fellow ship with the Episcopal Church or its majority of pro gay bishops. The network hopes to become the American entity to which foreign Anglicans can relate. Canon Bill Atwood of the Texas-based Ekklesia Society, which aids churches in developing nations, said in a phone interview from Uganda that bishops who lead a majority of the world’s Anglicans are preparing a joint statement to recognize the network. A leaked memo from one network activist said the ultimate goal is a “replace ment” jurisdiction aligned with world Anglicanism. A key leader said Sunday that the concept originated with the overseas Anglican lead ers and decisions on replace ment are up to them. The chief business of the Plano meeting is to agree on an organizational charter to govern the network’s early phase. Some delegates worked Monday night in hopes of also fashioning a theological declaration drawn from previous conser vative documents. Perhaps the touchiest Protests against head scarf ban expected in France, Britain, Canada and U.S. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Police expect 10,000-20,000 protesters Saturday at a march through Paris against the outlawing of Muslim head scarves in schools. Other protests are expected in the United States, Canada and Britain. The demonstrations would be the biggest coordi nated protest against a draft law that will forbid Muslim head scarves, Jew ish skullcaps and large Christian crosses in French public schools. The government, worried about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, aims to have the law operating for the start of the 2004-2005 CHURCH NEWS Revival at Liberty Baptist Church Continued from page 8B January 24 The District III Ushers will hold its quarterly meeting at 10 am at Reeder Memorial Baptist Church at 3725 Beatties Ford Road. • Medgar-Evers College Imani Singers of Brooklyn, NY wiW be in concert at Friendship Missionary Bap tist Church at 3301 Beatties Ford Road at 7 p.m. January 30 Live Ministries in collabo ration with seven Charlotte area churches wOl present “I’m Mad” youth rally at 3117 Whiting Avenue at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to young adults ages 12-20. January 30-31 Yadkin Grove Baptist Church Consecration and Connection Service “The Outpouring Of The Oil” will be held at 325 Leonard Road, Salisbury February 9-10 Liberty Baptist Church at 3000 Sam Wilson Road will hold its revival conference at 7 p.m. February 21 Winston-Salem State Uni versity Concert Choir will perform at Friendship Mis sionary Baptist church at 3301 Beatties Ford Road. February 25 Ash Wednesday Service win be held at Friendship Baptist Church at 7 p.m. February 29 Fifth Sunday Hymnsing: A Celebration of Our Heritage- Metered Hymns & Spiritu als will be held at 5:30 p.m. school year in September. It says Muslim scarves and other obvious religious sym bols must be forced out of schools to keep them secu lar. Islamic leaders say the law will stigmatize France’s estimated 5 million Mus lims, who make up 8 per cent of the population. Saturday’s march through northeastern Paris to the Place de la Nation begins at 1 p.m. It was called by the Party of French Muslims. Protests are also expected in other French cities including Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, Nice and Toulouse. Shouting “The veil, my choice,” about 3,000 people took part in a similar protest in Paris on Dec. 21. More than half were women, girls and even young children wearing the “hijab,” or head scarf Protests also are planned Saturday, mostly outside French consulates and embassies, in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and in Ottawa, Mon treal and Tbronto in Cana da, organizers said. A few thousand people are expected in all, said Sha- heen Kazi, national office manager at the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada. “The hijab is so central to the Muslim woman’s identity,” Kazi said. “If we don’t stand up for this issue when it happens in a European country or anywhere else, then it could be like a wave that could carry on throughout Europe and then we don’t know how far it would spread.” In Britain, protests are planned outside the French Embassy in London and a French consulate in Edin burgh, Scotland. They were called by the -Muslim Asso ciation of Britain and the Muslim Women Society. “Hijab is part of a MusHm woman’s faith,” the associa tion said on its Web site. “The French government must realize that it has made a huge mistake.” S n k Mtiabood 1} www.fatherfiood.o^ issue is whether the network should send bishops to min ister to conservative parish es in liberal dioceses, even without denominational per mission. The 12 dioceses at the heart of the network have 235,000 members, or a 10th of the nation’s Episcopalians, though some parishioners in these dioceses hold liberal views. The world Anglican leader. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, named a commission to report by Sept. 30 on solutions to the global division over the U.S. actions and a parallel dis pute over Canadian church blessings for same-sex cou ples. On The Net: American Anglican Council: http://www.americananglican.or g Network: http://www.anglican- commimiondioceses.org Episcopal Church: htfp://www.episcopalchim'h.org Give your mouse something else to do. Click on thecharlottepost.com ®I)e Cljarlottc ^osit Church Directory Silver 111 Mount Baptist Church 'Continuing the Jsegacg - ©g fulfilling the Vleion' Come And Wors&ip With Us I Morning Worship Service 9;45am Children's Church Sunday School 8:45am Wed. Night Bible Study 7:00pm 501 W. 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