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A proposed bill currently before the Ugandan Parliament that, if passed, would extend prison sentences for homosexuals and introduce the death penalty in certain cases has generated outrage from a number of religious groups while some Anglican leaders are being more cautious with their responses.

The Rev. Michael Joseph Hanley was elected Nov. 20 to be the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, pending the required consents. Hanley, 54, rector of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Roseville, Minnesota, was elected on the second ballot out of a field of three candidates.

An advertisement focusing on the welcoming nature of the Episcopal Church that ran in the Nov. 20 edition of USA Today is being made available to dioceses and congregations for local media use.

Shortly before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid held a press conference Nov. 19 to celebrate the long-awaited health reform legislation unveiled Nov. 18, pastors and lay leaders from states with senators whose votes are seen as crucial to the outcome of reform gathered outside the Capitol Building to pray for continued progress on legislation to extend affordable coverage to families.

The work given to the Episcopal Church by the July meeting of General Convention in Anaheim, California, has begun.

Episcopal Church House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson sent a letter Nov. 16 to diocesan deputies and first alternates that outlined the process she will use for replacing the Rev. Brian Prior as the house's vice president.

The Archbishop of Canterbury today gave an address in Rome, as the guest of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The address is part of a symposium being held at the Gregorian University, to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Cardinal Willebrands, the first president of the Council.

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ONE Sunday is a day each year on which congregations pray for and commit to common action toward an end to global poverty. With text from the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations, Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for Nov. 22 mark ONE Sunday with information about the Millennium Development Goals and what congregations and individuals can do to help.

Fort Worth Episcopalians spent a busy and joyous Nov. 13-15 weekend electing their next provisional bishop at diocesan convention, and a day later celebrated the ordination of the first woman priest in the 27-year history of the Texas diocese.

Bishop Christopher Epting, the Episcopal Church's deputy to the Presiding Bishop for ecumenical and interreligious relations, issued a statement Nov. 16 on the Vatican's Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus.

The Episcopal Church is joining the Interfaith Immigration Coalition postcard campaign, aimed at sending a holiday message to members of the U.S. Congress.

The process for building a closer relationship between the Episcopal and Moravian churches is taking place in the denominations' decision-making bodies, but the realities of that work will bear fruit in their congregations and beyond.

The Episcopal Public Policy Network (EPPN) has issued an appeal for church members to call on President Barack Obama to end the Coal River Mountain mining project.

In a lecture on12th November, the RSA, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, set out the principles by which development agencies and faith communities can engage in dialogue to build trust and mutual understanding of their distinctive motivations in order to collaborate more effectively in tackling issues of justice and global poverty.

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A handful of students in Rochester, New York, may well be prototypical of one way the church will train Episcopalians for ministry in the future. "We're going to have to have some alternative delivery systems," said Diocese of Atlanta Bishop Neil Alexander, who heads the House of Bishops Task Force on Theological Education.

Women and men from around the Anglican Communion gathered in one of the most beautiful cities in the world Nov. 2-6 to focus on the ugly billion-dollar trade in children.

Each year on Nov. 14 the Episcopal Church remembers the consecration and ordination in 1784 of Samuel Seabury as the first bishop of Connecticut and first Episcopal Church bishop in the newly formed United States of America. Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for Nov. 15 mark Seabury's feast day with a brief history of his life and ministry

The text of an Apostolic Constitution, that outlines provisions to accept groups of former Anglicans who wish to enter into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, was released Nov. 9 by the Vatican.

Mourners at a prayer vigil on the evening of Nov. 6 filled a stadium at the Fort Hood Army Base near Austin, Texas, where a day earlier a gunman killed 13 and wounded 31 military and civilian personnel.

The small Christian community that remains in the Middle East is united in its effort to 'witness to the living Lord,' Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem Bishop Suheil Dawani said this week in New York.