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Articles published by the Diocese of Newark and media coverage of our churches and members.

Video: "The Way of the Cross" in Washington, D.C.

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St. Peter's, Clifton display promotes strict gun laws

[The Record] Anyone passing St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will see photos of victims of the Connecticut elementary school massacre, their smiling faces with their names and ages producing a mournful memorial that, the pastor says, is also a call for stricter gun control.

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Photo album: "Way of the Cross" Witness in Washington, D.C. Against Gun Violence

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Episcopalians go to Washington for prayerful march against violence
Patty Watts of St. David's, Kinnelon in front of the Capitol.

[Episcopal News Service] Rain, snow, and temperatures that were barely above freezing did not deter a group of about 400 Episcopalians from taking to the streets of the nation’s capital March 25 to transform the traditional re-enactment of Jesus’ journey to Calvary and the tomb into a prayer procession meant to challenge what they called a culture of violence.

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As witness against gun violence, diocesan members to walk "Way of the Cross" in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Capitol Building

During the pre-dawn hours of Monday, March 25 – the Monday in Holy Week – some 60 people from the Diocese of Newark will head to Washington, D.C., where they will join hundreds of Episcopalians from across the country in challenging the epidemic of gun violence that claims so many thousands of American lives each year.

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The transition begins...
John King and Michael Francaviglia

John King, who is succeeding Michael Francaviglia as Director of Administration & Secretary of Convention, officially started work on March 18. (Unofficially, he's already shadowed Michael at several meetings, including last week's Diocesan Council meeting, in order to start learning the ropes.) Michael and John will work together through Michael's retirement on April 5.

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Photo Album: Celebration of the Feast of Absalom Jones 2013

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The Rev. Virginia Dinsmore to serve as diocesan Coordinator for Missional Church Strategy
The Rev. Ginny Dinsmore

Bishop Mark Beckwith is pleased to announce that the Rev. Virginia (Ginny) Dinsmore will join the diocesan staff as Coordinator for Missional Church Strategy beginning April 1, 2013.

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RIP: The Rev. William Bailey
The Rev. William Bailey

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. William Bailey, who in 2004 became the first vocational deacon ordained in the Episcopal Diocese of Newark in more than a quarter century, died March 6 at his home in Morris Plains, New Jersey, after a long illness. He was 81.

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Churchwide conversation focuses on human trafficking

Laura Russell, a lawyer from the Diocese of Newark who has worked with trafficking victims for more than 10 years, was a member of this panel. Russell served as a lay deputy to the 2012 General Convention, and is a member of the diocesan Justice Board.

[Episcopal News Service] There are more human beings in bondage today, twice as many as at the height of the slave trade, working in conditions of forced labor and sexual servitude in what is a $32 billion a year business, second only to the illicit drug trade, said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in her opening remarks during an hour-long, churchwide conversation on human trafficking March 6.

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