Episcopal Press and News
World Church -In Brief
Diocesan Press Service. May 10, 1966 [43-10]
The Archbishop of Canterbury met with Patriarch German of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade from April 30 to May 3.
New York Seminary students rallied to help salvage books and manuscripts spared in a fire which raged for more than five hours in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. Nearly a thousand students from Union Theological Seminary across the street, neighboring Columbia University, Barnard and other institutions in the area worked drying out thousands of books soaked by the tons of water poured into the building.
The Churchmen's Study Tour of Africa will be held July 12 - August 14. The tour is jointly sponsored by several churches, including the Episcopal Church, and further information can be obtained by writing Herman Will, Jr., 100 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Washington, D. C. 20002. The cost of the tour is $2,175, including air fares, hotels, meals, land transportation, sight-seeing and taxes. Inquiries should be made before June 1.
The Rt. Rev. C. Edward Crowther, Anglican Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman in South Africa, has been refused permission to enter Damaraland, South West Africa. Bishop Crowther is a British - born American citizen. He was to have been the keynote speaker at the third annual convocation of the Anglican Church in Ovamboland. The Diocese of Damaraland is under the jurisdiction of another American, the Rt. Rev. Robert H. Mize.
The Consultation on Equal Employment met in April in St. Louis under the auspices of the National Council of Churches. The urgency of finding jobs now for America's underemployed minority groups, coupled with complex obstacles to full employment, occupied the 100 leaders from business, industry, labor, government and churches that attended.
A program and publishing venture of "Grassroots Ecumenism" designed to assist Roman Catholics ,Protestants ,Anglicans, Orthodox and Jews to engage in ecumenical dialogue was launched recently at a news conference held in both New York and Kansas City, Mo. by two Roman Catholic lay groups. The program covers everything from how to hold a church open house to ecumenical etiquette. In one booklet, Blueprints for Action, it outlines how to hold interreligious conferences so that the nation's religious faiths may join in the struggle for equal opportunity for all or enlist in the war on poverty.
The Parish Hall of Christ Church, Sausalito, Calif. was one of four contemporary church buildings to receive an award for excellence at the 27th National Conference on Religious Architecture. Architects were Henrik Bull & Associates of San Francisco.
American Methodism recently celebrated its Bicentennial in Baltimore, Md. Among those who addressed the gathering was President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The Rt. Rev. Philip P. Parmar, Bishop of Bhagalpur, India since 1955, was enthroned as Bishop of Delhi on April 21. He was appointed to the post by the Metropolitan of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon to succeed the Rt. Rev. F. R. Willis, who retired in January.
The Rt. Rev. J. Brooke Mosley, Bishop of Delaware, has been appointed to the board of directors of Union Theological Seminary, New York City.
The Second North American Conference on Family Life will be held May 30 to June 3 at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada. During the five-day session more than 500 family life experts from the United States and Canada will weigh moral and ethical issues of contemporary family life.