Anglican Communion News Service

The Episcopal Church of El Salvador denounces before the general public and the international community the murder attempt that Bishop Barahona and two of his closest collaborators suffered. This past Wednesday night (17th), Bishop Barahona, along two of his closest working partners, was victim of the violence that has held this country imprisoned

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Peace and hope to the Churches of Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Provinces of the Anglican Communion. We, the Bishops that make up The Anglican Church of the Central American Region (IARCA) gathered in Managua, Nicaragua have made a space for reflection and biblical analysis and shared our individual concerns and experiences of our ministry as pastors and spiritual leaders of our clergy and people. We are convinced that the Holy Spirit has taken over and manifested a presence in this meeting and has guided us on the search for the necessary process that will help us improve our relationship and to identify the guidelines that will support our common ministry.

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"To my colleagues, the Primates of the Great Anglican Communion; to my sister and brother bishops of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America; and to the bishops and other clergy and lay leaders of our beloved Province of the Central Region of America, which includes the countries of Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador; to all, peace and goodness in the name of the living and true God that surely is among us.

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Statement of the Episcopal Church of Guatemala on the participation of the Central American Primate in Gene Robinson’s consecration

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San Salvador

With the celebration of a forum entitled "Women in the ordained ministry" and other activities, the Anglican Episcopal Church of El Salvador honoured the Salvadoran women during the month of October.

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Please remember in your prayers this weekend the people of the Anglican Church of the Central American Region [Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama], IARCA, as they install their second Primado Elegido, the Rt Revd Martin Barahona, Bishop of El Salvador. Bishop Barahona was elected to a three-year term in April; he can be re-elected in 2005. He succeeds the Rt Revd Cornelius Wilson, Bishop of Costa Rica, who died on Monday 12 August 2002, after a long struggle with cancer.

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The Rt Revd Cornelius Joshua Wilson, Bishop of Costa Rica.

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11 June 2002

As it is well known through different channels, we have discovered a shameful mismanagement of funds in the dioceses of Northern and Western Mexico, which has led us to a grave crisis as an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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For years many responsible Episcopalians were concerned that a lack of adequate financial controls made the millions of dollars that the church disburses annually overseas vulnerable to theft, and it would appear that in the Anglican Church of Mexico their worst fears have been confirmed.

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Twelve members of "Collective", supporters of Amos Trust, who have recently returned from a visit in Nicaragua and Honduras, Central America, are hosting an exhibition of pictures of hope taken by the group as the people there are trying to rebuild their lives two years on from Hurricane Mitch.

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This is the report #6 that I want to share with you, to let you know with great happiness that thanks God, the seismic activity in El Salvador has diminished, although from time to time, we are surprised by some tremors, but the population, little by little is taking stronger security and in the middle of the disaster, we are beginning a normal life.

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We had not woken up from the earthquake of February 13th yet when suddenly, a tremor of 6.6 on the Richter scale hit us on Saturday 17th at 2:24 in the afternoon. A telluric movement with different characteristics and with epicenter on the south of the capital city of San Salvador. Damages have not been estimated yet because there are confusion and panic on the population.

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Crying, pain, suffering, anguish, desperation: Tuesday February 13 at 8:22 a.m. time of El Salvador, exactly after a month from the earthquake of January 13, a strong telluric movement of 6.6 in the scale of Richter hit our country again, affecting mostly the departments of San Vicente, La Paz and Cuscatlán in the central area of the Republic.

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10 days have passed after the earthquake that has desolated our country. I can say that Salvadorans are now waking up from this horrible nightmare; we begin to look at everything with more calm and we find 98 municipalities of the national territory are practically destroyed.

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This is the second official statement from Bishop Martín Barahona to the members of the Episcopal Church in El Salvador, in the Central Region of America, in the United States and in other places of the world, to all our friends.

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This report is the result of an emergency committee raised from the clergy and diocesan personnel.... As of today, our congregations have not reported deaths but only damages of infrastructure, and of course, the psychological damage we all have experienced and the suffering because of so much devastation.

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While the people of El Salvador continue to dig out from a disastrous 13 January earthquake, living in fear of additional aftershocks, authorities are trying to assess the damage.

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"But the disciples took Saul by night, and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket." Acts 9:25

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Sweaters and winter apparel are definitely OK. Temperatures that may seem shirt-sleeve weather to you cold-blooded types can seem unbearably cold to us in the tropics. When I was growing up, I spent all of my summers on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Like everyone there, I complained if the temperature rose above 75 Farenheit, that it was getting too hot. Now that I have lived in the tropics for 13 years, like everyone else here on the coast

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"I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." Genesis 9:11

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"Therefore its name was called Babel, because the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth." Genesis 11:9

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"I called on thy name, O Lord from the depths of the pit; thou disdst hear my plea, Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!" Lamentations 3:55

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Yesterday I had a problem with my e-mail, and it did not go out, so I am resending it today in a separate message.

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The recovery continues. Yesterday the post office opened in San Pedro Sula for the first time in two weeks. Tomorrow the airport terminal will open again for the first time in almost two weeks. For the past several days TACA has been flying small planes in and out of here taking passengers to connect with international flights in La Ceiba and Tegucigalpa. As of tomorrow, the jets will once again be landing and taking off from San Pedro Sula.

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"You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers." II Corinthians 1:11

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It's only from the hopeful power that scriptures gives us that we are able to continue. Micah's words in chapter 7 verse 8, "when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me" are words that remind us that we must continue and that there is hope.

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How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street." Lamentations 4:1

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