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Episcopal Church launches new iPad app, ‘Wayfarer’
The Episcopal Church Office of Communication has launched its first iPad app, Wayfarer.
Available as a free, quarterly iPad app downloadable at iTunes, all the content can also be viewed in an Internet browser here.
“Wayfarer features compelling stories told through video, photographs and words,” said Lynette Wilson, Wayfarer producer.
Wilson, who is also an editor/reporter for Episcopal News Service, addressed the appropriateness of the name. “We chose to name the app Wayfarer because we intend to tell a wide spectrum of stories about people, possibilities and action across a broad landscape,” she said.
“This is an exciting moment – it represents our entry into mobile content, appealing both to Episcopal and broader audiences,” noted Anne Rudig, Director of Episcopal Church Office of Communication. “As the title suggests, each issue of Wayfarer has been shot in a different far-flung location.” The first issue is Kivalina, which chronicles the story of Indigenous Alaskans faced with having to move their entire village to higher ground because of rising sea temperatures.
CNN – Whitney Houston’s journey “home” ends with a private burial in New Jersey on Sunday as questions persist about what caused the superstar’s death. Houston will be buried next to her father at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, south of Newark. Her burial brings an end to her “coming home,” as her family has dubbed the invitation-only memorial service held a day earlier at her childhood church in Newark. The family-only burial is in contrast to the emotionally-charged, star-studded memorial service held at New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston, nicknamed “Nippy,” was soloing in the junior choir by age 11.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/19/showbiz/whitney-houston/
Woman dies after US church shooting
Belfast Telegraph – A Florida pastor’s daughter who was accidentally shot in the head in a church has died in hospital, authorities in the US say. Hannah Kelley, 20, was pronounced dead at about 10.20am on Saturday US time at Bayfront Medical Centre, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said. A post-mortem examination is due to take place. Ms Kelley had been in hospital since last Sunday, when she was struck in the head by a bullet at Grace Connection Church in St Petersburg, where her father Tim Kelley is pastor.
Also – http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/woman-dies-after-us-church-shooting-3024187.html?
New Jersey veto on gay marriage
BBC – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoes a same-sex marriage bill passed by the state legislature, while Maryland legislators back a similar bill.
Read more – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17081970