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Demonstrators show their support outside the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Orlando, Florida, during the June 18, 2016, funeral service for Christopher Andrew Leinonen, one of the victims of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting. Photo: John Raoux/AP [Episcopal News Service] The Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Orlando, Florida, memorialized the 49 people who were shot and…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Most Rev. Marinez Rosa dos Santos Bassotto, primate of the Anglican Episcopal Church in Brazil and bishop of the Amazon, has been appointed chair of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network. The network connects Anglicans worldwide who work on creation care, climate justice and environmental action. Bassotto has focused much of…

Bunk beds at the shelter for unhoused people inside St. Paul’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Ocean City, Maryland. Photo: Courtesy of Jill Williams [Episcopal News Service] St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church is preparing to file a federal lawsuit against Ocean City, Maryland, after it received a citation from the resort town on June 8 for…

Dan Levy stars as Nicky Dardano, a gay pastor in the Netflix sitcom “Big Mistakes.” Photo: Netflix trailer screenshot [Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Warren Thomas Swenson is a happily married gay Episcopal priest with an “ordinary” routine. As a former associate priest serving small mission churches in southeast Tennessee, he has preached, presided over…

[Episcopal News Service] Mexico, Canada and the United States will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup June 11-19. The quadrennial soccer championship is expected to attract millions of spectators across 104 matches played throughout North America. All three host countries are increasing security in an effort to prevent crime during the 48-team tournament, including human…

[Lambeth Palace] Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally hosted a debate on June 5 in the House of Lords, urging peers to take note of artificial intelligence’s impact on human relationships and wider society. Hailing AI as a “remarkable product of human creativity” which has led to “extraordinary discoveries and breakthroughs,” Mullally also stressed the importance…

Archivist Denton Waits, from left, archives assistant Kayla Floyd, Riley Temple and the Very Rev. Ian S. Markham pose with a newly discovered draft of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” at Bishop Payne Library on the campus of Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. Photo: Adelle M. Banks/Religion News Service  [Religion News…

The Rev. Robert Morley, chaplain of the Anglican Church of the Holy Ghost in Genoa, Italy, leads a memorial service June 3 for those who died in a 1944 U.S. bombing raid on the city in World War II. Photo courtesy of Jack DuPont [Episcopal News Service] A 17-year-old Episcopalian from Mississippi, who is completing…

[Episcopal News Service] All dioceses in The Episcopal Church regularly rely on the 1979 Book of Common Prayer to structure their worship services. The bishop of the Diocese of Dallas wants his diocese’s congregations to refrain from using any other liturgical text, at least on Sundays. Last month, Bishop Robert Price issued new guidance for…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches Young People in the Ecumenical Movement will host its second online gathering on June 10 via Zoom. Young ecumenists worldwide are invited to meet, share experiences and strengthen relationships across regions. Building on the momentum of the first virtual gathering held in 2025, the 90-minute event…