Episcopal Divinity School appoints the Very Rev. Lydia Kelsey Bucklin president and dean

Dr. Audrey Evans, center, poses with students at St. James School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Evans, a devout Episcopalian, was a pioneering British American pediatric oncologist who co-founded Ronald McDonald House Charities. Later, she co-founded St. James School shortly after retiring from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2009. Photo: Courtesy of David Kasievich [Episcopal News…

[World Council of Churches] As World Heath Day — observed April 7 annually — approaches, the World Council of Churches is inviting people across the world to join in prayers and reflections. For World Health Day this year, when the World Health Organization also will commemorate its 76th anniversary, the theme is “My Health, My…

One of the 16 colonial-era angel paintings being revealed at Old North Church, overpainted and hidden for more than a century. Photo: Old North Church [Diocese of Massachusetts] Through a painstaking and possibly once-in-a-lifetime paint restoration project underway at Old North Church in Boston, a host of colonial-era angels is coming into view, one by one, for…

[World Council of Churches] On behalf of the World Council of Churches, its general secretary, the Rev. Jerry Pillay, expressed solidarity with the people of Kanaky New Caledonia, a group of islands about 900 miles east of Australia, as they cope with tension and blockades that have brought shortages of food, healthcare and essential services….

[Episcopal News Service] Atlanta Bishop Rob Wright announced April 15 that the Rev. Greg Warren will serve as interim executive director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing, based in the diocese and Georgia’s capital city. The Rev. Greg Warren was named interim executive director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in…

[Anglican Communion News Service]  The Most Rev. Gilbert Rateloson Rakotondravelo was installed as the archbishop and primate of the Province of the Indian Ocean during a Jan. 19 service at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. Rakotondravelo served as bishop of Fianarantsoa before he was elected archbishop on Dec. 14, 2024. Rakotondravelo…