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During his May 23 visit to the Episcopal Church Center in New York City, Bishop Lloyd Allen of the Diocese of Honduras described a flourishing diocese that is teaching its congregants to be “independent.”

“Since we established that we would do evangelism head-over-heels, it’s a new dawn in our diocese,” said Allen, president of Province IX and a member of the Presiding Bishop’s Council of Advice.

He said programs such as Experiencing God, the Cursillo Movement, Happening, New Beginning and Evangelism Explosion are “used throughout the diocese” and have caused growth. There are presently 151 congregations in the diocese, which is divided into nine deaneries (San Pedro, Sula, Comayagua, Copan, Omoa and Puerto Cortez, Santa Barbara, Tegucigalpa, Paraiso, Atlantida, and the Islands of Bahia) in the North Western and South Central Eastern region.

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Oil companies that import gas and diesel into Honduras threatened to halt all new investments in the country on Tuesday if the government does not change a price scheme they say is hurting their profits.

Foreign firms, including ExxonMobil (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research)(RDSb.L: Quote, Profile, Research), and local distributor Dippsa say a price formula set up by the government in an effort to keep prices low for consumers has cost them millions of dollars in lost profits.

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Ericsson has been awarded a GSM/EDGE contract by Digicel Group in Honduras, making Ericsson the preferred supplier for Digicel’s operations in the Caribbean, El Salvador and now in Honduras.

Under the agreement Ericsson will be the sole supplier of a GSM/EDGE network including core network, radio access and microwave transmission. It will provide subscribers with access to a reliable and robust network as well as services such as GPRS/EDGE mobile internet access, per-second billing and international roaming. The deal also includes Ericsson’s Mobile Softswitch Solution, which is capable of carrying large volumes of voice traffic in a state-of-the-art network architecture.

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Police say that Honduras’ top prosecutor has been shot by his bodyguard — apparently by accident.

National police chief Ambrosio Ordonez says Leonidas Rosa’s bodyguard was cleaning his weapon when it unexpectedly fired. The bullet ricocheted off the floor and grazed Rosa’s leg as he got in his car to go to work Monday.

Rosa was being treated at a local hospital.

He has come under intense criticism recently. Five attorneys leading a hunger strike accused Rosa of being corrupt, and nationwide protests insisted on his resignation.

Rosa denied those allegations, and the government refused to force him to step down.

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