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[Episcopal News Service] A concert opera honoring Bishop John Henry Hobart will make its world debut May 31 at Trinity Church in New York.  The church’s Trinity Choir and Downtown Voices choral ensembles will perform the piece with its new music chamber ensemble, NOVUS. Melissa Attebury, Trinity’s music director, will conduct the 50-minute work, which…

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in the West Ashley neighborhood of Charleston, South Carolina, worships in a temporary space in an administrative building during repairs to its main church building. Photo: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, via Facebook [Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of South Carolina is using seed money from The Episcopal Church to launch its…

David Adamo Bundy is learning Italian at the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center housed at St. Paul’s Within the Walls Episcopal Church in Rome, Italy. Photo: Lynette Wilson/ENS [Episcopal News Service] In late February, Davide Adamo Bundy, 59 – born in Italy and reared in Arkansas – landed at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport carrying his…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Most Rev. Stephen Cottrell, the archbishop of York in the Church of England, recently visited two Episcopal Church dioceses in the United States, the Diocese of Rhode Island and the Diocese of Pennsylvania. During the visit, Cottrell attended and preached at a service of Evensong at Christ Church in Westerly,…

[Diocese of Newark] When the Rev. George Dredden gave a phone interview about what he experienced outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, he was still hoarse and coughing after being exposed to pepper spray. Dredden, who serves as priest for community engagement at Christ Church in Short…

St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, an Episcopal parish in New York, celebrated Pentecost May 24 with a post-worship neighborhood cookout and a flash dance featuring music by Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican reggaeton musician. Photo: Imani Riaz Amanullah [Episcopal News Service] St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, an Episcopal parish in New York’s East Village, celebrated Pentecost May…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican Province of Central Africa recently ordained 14 women to the priesthood in a first for the province. The service was held May 17 at the Anglican Holy Cross Cathedral in Gaborone, Botswana. Among those present were  the Most Rev. Albert Chama, archbishop of Central Africa and bishops from South…

[Religion News Service] Pope Leo XIV took direct aim at the power of Big Tech in his first encyclical on May 25, warning that artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, weakening democracy and undermining what it means to be human. The 83-page papal teaching document, titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), frames AI as the new industrial…

The Diocese of Texas’ Camp Allen in Navasota is cleared to open its summer camp under the state’s new licensing regulations. Photo: Camp Allen, via Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal camps in Texas are navigating new state regulations to reopen this summer, a year after one of the state’s camps was the scene of a…

Sarah K. Fisher was ordained and consecrated the 9th bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina on May 23, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Diocese of East Carolina [Diocese of East Carolina] The Diocese of East Carolina ordained and consecrated the Rt. Rev. Sarah K. Fisher as its 9th bishop on May 23 at the…