Compassion Provides Tsunami Disaster Relief
Jeremy Reynalds, Assist News Service

Compassion International, the well known Colorado Springs based child development organization, has set up a Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund in the wake of the recent disaster. Compassion will use the funds raised to care for orphaned children as well as delivering food, clean water, medical care and counseling to families in crisis. Compassion is providing the relief aid to in a three-phased relief plan over the next three months. Compassion is leading its relief initiative on the ground in Aceh, Indonesia; one of the areas devastated by the tsunami. Compassion officials said that while Compassion doesn't usually do a lot of emergency relief, the gravity of this situation demanded a different response. According to Compassion, its relief activities in the initial emergency stage will include meals, medical treatment, emergency shelter construction, identification of unaccompanied children and distribution of basic household and hygiene kits. Its second stage response will include distribution of dry rations, cooking kits, continued medical care and counseling and ongoing efforts to reunite children with their parents. Compassion will round out the initiative with what it called a "long-term assessment for stabilization."

Conservative Minister Quits Episcopal Church To Become Bishop
AgapePress

A conservative minister from Pennsylvania has quit the Episcopal Church to become a bishop in the Anglican Church in America.  David Moyer will oversee the traditionalist denomination's military chaplaincy.  Moyer says he could not submit to the heretical teaching of Episcopal Bishop Charles Bennison, who once said since the Church wrote the Bible, the Church can rewrite the Bible.  Bennisson, says Moyer, "denies the physical, bodily resurrection of Jesus -- which I guess would mean that the tomb was not empty on Easter day."  And there is more, Moyer says.  "He also is the leading advocate in the Episcopal Church for same-sex marriages," he says, adding that Bennison "brags about the fact that in the diocese of Pennsylvania there are 22 priests serving the diocese [who have] live-in, same-sex lovers in their rectories."  Bennison defrocked Moyer in September 2002, a move that Moyer is fighting in court.  Moyer's parish, the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, does not accept his defrocking and has voted to keep him as rector.