Episcopal Church Asks U.S. Congress to Probe Balao Abduction

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The Episcopal Church in the Philippines has asked the United States Congress, particularly the Committee on Appropriations, Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations to look into the abduction of its member James Balao and other human rights abuses in the country.

In a testimony, Rev. Canon Brian Grieves, the Episcopal Church’s senior director for Mission Centers, and Alexander D. Baumgarten, international policy analyst in the church’s government relations office, submitted a five-page testimony dated March 18, regarding the human rights situation here in the Philippines and the U.S. military assistance to the Philippines.

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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • * Economics, Politics • Foreign Relations

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Posted March 28, 2009 at 4:40 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Jill Woodliff wrote:

The bishops of the Episcopal church of the Philippines have publicly protested the abduction.  Is this related to the Egyptian government’s refusal to let the Primate of the Philippines attend the Primates’ meeting in Alexandria or not?

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