Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe on bombing of al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza April 13, 2025

Bishop Yehiel Curry. Photo: Courtesy of Metropolitan Chicago Synod [Religion News Service] The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected its first Black leader on July 30 at its churchwide assembly meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. The Rev. Yehiel Curry, bishop of the ELCA’s Metropolitan Chicago Synod since 2019, will serve a six-year term as the denomination’s…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Rt. Rev. Danald Jute — bishop of Kuching, located in Malaysia and part of the Church of the Province of South East Asia, and chair of the Anglican Interfaith Commission — recently met with Ahmed El-Tayeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, in Cairo. The meeting, held at Al-Azhar, reaffirmed the shared…

[Episcopal News Service] The Book of Common Prayer has a new constitutional definition: “Those liturgical forms and other texts authorized by the General Convention in accordance with this article and the Canons of this Church.” The House of Deputies adopted that language in an evening session June 26 as part of Resolution A072, which was…

[Episcopal News Service] Minnesota Bishop Craig Loya has established a new migrant support fund and has asked diocesan congregations to take a special collection on March 2 to add to its initial gift of $10,000. Loya created the fund, he told Episcopal News Service, because the diocese has seven congregations where immigrants are the majority of…

The Very Rev. Robert Willis [Berkeley Divinity School at Yale] Berkeley Divinity School at Yale on Oct. 29 announced the death of the Very Rev. Robert Willis, dean emeritus of Canterbury cathedral, who died suddenly on Oct. 22 while a resident fellow at the school. He was 77. The school shared a message from his partner…

[Religion News Service — Nairobi, Kenya] African faith leaders are calling for debt forgiveness as the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee year approaches to help their countries tackle growing economic crises. “We urgently need a new debt jubilee to bring hope to humankind, and to bring the planet back from the brink of becoming uninhabitable,” said 27 religious…