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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;font-weight:bold">The
Episcopal <st1:personname w:st="on">Church</st1:personname></span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="4" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;font-style:italic">Office
of Public Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold">Episcopal
Church Presiding Bishop Issues World AIDS Day letter:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic">“Pray for a future without AIDS”<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">[November 30, 2010] “Pray for a future without AIDS,” Episcopal
Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori asks in her World AIDS Day
2010 letter.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">World AIDS Day is noted annually on December 1.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">“The first priority: continue to advocate forcefully for
government investment in the fight against AIDS both here and abroad,” she
noted. “The second priority: Episcopalians must continue to raise
awareness of HIV/AIDS within our own communities. “<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The following is the letter from Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">___________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Brothers and sisters in Christ,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">On the first day of December, people around the world pause to remember
World AIDS Day. Christians remember all who live with HIV and AIDS, and
all who have died, at the same time we begin the season of Advent. We
search for a healer and a hope-giver as we prepare for the coming of the
Redeemer. One of the traditional prophetic readings for the season says:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic">While
gentle silence enveloped all things,<br>
and night in its swift course was now half gone, <br>
[God’s] all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne,<br>
into the midst of the land that was doomed. [Wisdom 18:14-15, NRSV]<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The magnificent contrasts of this ancient vision – silence
pierced by the Word, doom cast out by new life – seem a fitting frame for
reflecting on the challenges and opportunities confronting us on World AIDS Day
2010.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The world lives in painful silence and gathering doom. More than
30 million people around the world are living with HIV, and at least 2.5
million persons will be infected in the coming year. Developing countries
experience HIV and AIDS as major links in the chain of poverty and instability
binding so much of God’s creation. In the United States HIV rates
are also rising among the poor. An increased need for American funding of
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment has been met with silence and retreat, as
other pressing challenges vie for national and global attention. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">And yet silence and doom do not have the last word. The UNAIDS
report released last week notes that the rate of new HIV infections has either
stabilized or been reduced significantly in 56 nations. New infections
have fallen 20% in the past decade, and AIDS deaths have fallen 20% in the past
five years. The director of UNAIDS urges the world to break “the
trajectory of the AIDS epidemic with bold actions and smart
choices.” The Centers for Disease Control identify HIV/AIDS as one
of six diseases which can be overcome. Research results released last
week show promising results in clinical trials of a new prophylactic drug,
designed to prevent HIV infection in at-risk communities. This success
comes in the wake of recently publicized advances in identifying HIV
‘controller genes,’ which may lead to advances in vaccines or
treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">This contrast confronts us on World AIDS Day: great progress and
even greater hope despite public discourse and political leadership that rarely
prioritizes an end to this deadly and stigmatizing disease. What can Christians
do to ensure the victory of hope and new life in the face of silence and death?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The first priority: continue to advocate forcefully for
government investment in the fight against AIDS both here and abroad. The
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government’s has, in the past two years, decreased our nation’s
promised investment in HIV/AIDS abroad. This reduction had included both
funding for particular countries, and our investment in the multinational
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Archbishop Desmond
Tutu wrote compellingly of President Obama’s unfulfilled commitments in a
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/opinion/21tutu.html">New York Times
op-ed</a> this past summer. As the President prepares his budget for the
coming fiscal year, I urge Episcopalians to challenge him and the new Congress
to keep <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
promises to the world. Joining the <a href="x-msg://125/Local%20Settings/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/OLK5/episcopalchurch.org/eppn">Episcopal
Public Policy Network</a> will connect your voice to those of other
Episcopalians working in this and other areas of social justice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The second priority: Episcopalians must continue to raise
awareness of HIV/AIDS within our own communities. This Church still has
AIDS, and urgent challenges remain. Stigma continues to be a major issue
in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and around the world. Encouraging routine testing is essential,
particularly among adults over age 50. I commend to all Episcopalians the
work of the <a href="http://www.neac.org/">National Episcopal AIDS Coalition</a>,
which has done much to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS and avenues of healing
within our own communities.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Finally, I urge your prayers. As we prepare to mark the thirtieth
year of the world’s awareness of HIV and AIDS in 2011, pray for all who
have died from this terrible disease. Pray for those living now with HIV
and AIDS. And pray for a future without AIDS. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">These past weeks have brought us new signs that such a future is indeed
possible. Pray that we will use our collective resources,
imagination, and will to make a world without AIDS a reality.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Presiding Bishop and Primate<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The Episcopal Church<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
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