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[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches’ Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing will send a five-person delegation to participate in the 79th World Health Assembly May 17-23 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Rev. Stavros Kofinas, moderator of the Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing, will lead the delegation. Delegates…

[World Council of Churches] Every Sunday, the Rev. Daramali Ismael Gabriel Abudigin leads a two-hours church service in Tawila, as small town in western Sudan’s Darfur region. The 45-year-old Anglican priest is the town’s only church pastor, which recently absorbed thousands of internally displaced people who are fleeing war and famine in El-Fasher, the capital…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches presidents published a Pentecost message May 12 titled “The Holy Spirit Invites Reimagined Communities of Unity.” The message calls on Christians to invite the Holy Spirit to “transform us so that we can be more like Jesus.” Pentecost Sunday, which is celebrated 50 days after Easter…

Goats rest near brambles on May 2 on the property of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Romeo, Michigan. Photo: Courtesy of Donna Folland [Episcopal News Service] For almost a century, cartoons have depicted goats as animals that will eat anything. In Walt Disney’s 1928 animated short “Steamboat Willie,” for example, a goat eats Minnie Mouse’s…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches has joined the Future of Life Institute and 11 other organizations in a joint submission to the United Nations’ new Global Dialogue on AI Governance, which will take place July 6-7 in Geneva, Switzerland. The gathering was established as a space where U.N. member states and…

Members of Christ Church in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, eat lunch with children at Amistad Mission, an ecumenical Christian orphanage and family care nonprofit in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Chris Church has sent members on pilgrimages to Amistad Mission for more than 20 years. Photo: Courtesy of Amy Trinidad [Episcopal News Service] For more than 20 years,…

[Episcopal News Service] Christ Episcopal Church in Reading, Pennsylvania, had a lot of church history tucked literally inside its walls — a time capsule from 1863, the be exact, which was retrieved for unveiling last weekend at the church’s bicentennial celebration. In addition to some very old coins, it mostly contained church documents from early…

In November 2020, the Rev. Kim Jackson made history when she was the first LGBTQ person elected to the Georgia Senate. Photo: Allison Shirreffs [Religion News Service] When the Rev. Kim Sue Jackson, a 41-year-old Episcopal priest and Georgia state senator, started browsing Facebook for breastmilk donors in the Atlanta area, she didn’t think religion…

Left to right: Hawai‘i Bishop Robert Fitzpatrick, the Rev. Keith Chen-Cheng Li and Taiwan Bishop Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang. Li was elected to succeed Chang as bishop of Taiwan on May 9. Photo: Taiwan Episcopal Church/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Keith Chen-Cheng Li, rector of Good Shepherd Church in Taiwan, was elected the seventh bishop…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches is celebrating the United Bible Societies’ 80th anniversary by attending the organization’s annual fellowship event, May 7-11, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Rev. Jerry Pillay, WCC’s general secretary, will send a congratulatory message. This year’s theme is “A Legacy of Purpose, A Future of Possibility.” The event…