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	<description>Website for Bridgefolk, a movement of sacramentally-minded Mennonites and peace-minded Roman Catholics who come together to celebrate each other&#039;s traditions, explore each other&#039;s practices, and honor each other&#039;s contribution to the mission of Christ&#039;s Church.</description>
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		<title>MWC requests prayer for Honduran church following murder of pastor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mennonite World Conference has issued the following press release in the wake of the murder of Rafael Erasmo Arevalo, a Mennonite pastor in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras.  Bridgefolk participant Joetta Schlabach has been traveling in Central America and had recently talked with other church workers in the Copán area.  Motives for the murder are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret O&#8217;Gara to address  Washington (DC) Theological Consortium on Christian unity, February 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Margaret O&#8217;Gara, Canadian ecumenical leader and Bridgefolk Board member, is scheduled  be the featured speaker at the annual Washington Theological Consortium Figel Lectures on Christian Unity in Washington DC Feb 2 2012.  Additional information can be obtained by visiting the  Washington Theological Consortium website:  http://www.washtheocon.org/consortium_events.html February 2, 2012: Prayer Service for Christian Unity  4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Miller reflects on 22 years at the helm of Mennonite World Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mennonite World Conference news release by Phyllis Pellman Good “As long as the wind is in its sails. . .” Larry Miller remembers one moment clearly when, as a 38-year-old, he was weighing whether or not to accept the nomination to lead Mennonite World Conference. The year was 1988, 23 years ago, and he was sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invoking the gift of unity among Christians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY, 18 JAN 2012 (VIS) &#8211; The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins today, was the theme of Benedict XVI&#8217;s general audience celebrated this morning in the Paul VI Hall. The Holy Father explained how this initiative has been held annually for more than a century and brings together Christians from Churches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week of prayer for Christian unity begins tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2012/01/17/week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity-begins-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY, 17 JAN 2012 (VIS) &#8211; The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is due to begin tomorrow, 18 January, under the theme &#8220;We will all be changed by the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ&#8221;. The Week is promoted by the World Council of Churches (WCC), a worldwide fellowship of 349 Churches seeking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference on future of liberation theology includes examination of Mennonite peacemaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Plankey National Catholic Reporter  Mexico City (NCR)  &#8211; More than 300 theologians and pastoral workers met here last month in anticipation of the anniversaries of two events that have shaped contemporary Latin America: the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the 40th anniversary of the publishing of Gustavo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Smucker, &#8220;Respect for Life: The Consistent Life Ethic in Catholic Social Teaching&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read Julia Smucker&#8217;s recent article in Life Matters Journal surveying the development of &#8220;consistent life ethics&#8221; in recent Catholic teaching. Smucker is an enthusiastic Bridgefolk participant and an MA student in Theology at Saint John&#8217;s School of Theology in Collegeville, MN.  She describes herself as proud that fellow students have dubbed her The Anti-Dichotomy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic bishop and Mennonite Central Committee worker in Guatemala join to resist dam project threatening Maya Indian land</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tobias Roberts International Development Worker (reposted from the Huffington Post) Tension filled the cramped, block-wall room in the Guatemalan highlands as indigenous leaders sat across from negotiators for ENEL, an Italian-based energy company building a $228-million hydro-electric dam in the area. Local Mayan Ixhil leaders hoped the presence of a renowned Catholic archbishop, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darrin Snyder Belousek publishes major study on the atonement and peacemaking</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk participant and board member Darrin Snyder Belousek has just published a major new book on atonement.  The book develops a biblical theology of the cross in connection with justice and peacemaking.  Published by Eerdmans, the book is entitled Atonement, Justice, and Peace: The Message of Cross and the Mission of the Church.   Belousek notes [...]]]></description>
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