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Tamara Mykhalevych, a Ukrainian refugee, leads a musical improvisational exercise during a conference last month at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Geneva, Switzerland. Mykhalevych teaches music and movement classes at the church’s Refugee Welcome Center. Janet Day-Strehlow, who chairs the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe’s Institute for Christian Studies, looks on. Photo: Lynette Wilson [Episcopal…

A bicyclist rides past federal immigration agents walking North Clark Street near West Oak Street in River North, Chicago, on Sept. 28. Photo: Chicago Sun-Times via AP [Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians in the Diocese of Chicago are calling for the immediate release of a church member who was detained last month by federal immigration officials…

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of New York has created a new Immigrant Legal Support Fund to help asylum-seekers and others applying for special immigration status pay new fees that now are required when they make their legal claims. In an Oct. 4 email, New York Bishop Matthew Heyd said the fund offers the…

Note: After the Oct. 3 announcement that London Bishop Sarah Mullally has been named the 106th archbishop of Canterbury, the Church of England has outlined the next steps in the process leading to her formal installation in March 2026. Those steps are outlined below. [Church of England] The Canterbury Crown Nominations Commission nominated the name…

London Bishop Sarah Mullally was approved by King Charles III as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the world’s 85 million Anglicans, on Oct. 3, 2025. Photo: Alberto Pezzali/AP [Episcopal News Service] London Bishop Sarah Mullally has been chosen as the next archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to serve in…

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s Green Caucus is relaunching an environment-themed Compline series, with monthly online worship services beginning Oct. 6 in celebration of the Feast of St. Francis and the conclusion of the Season of Creation. Compline is a nighttime liturgy in the Book of Common Prayer that completes the Daily Office cycle…

[Episcopal News Service] The primary complainant in one of the two disciplinary cases against John Howard, former bishop of the Diocese of Florida, released a written statement Oct. 3 voicing strong disagreement with Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe for his decision to end the cases against Howard before they reached a hearing. The Rev. Elyse Gustafson…

The 2025 Ancient Order Radical Vocation Conference, commonly known as RADVO, took place Sept. 25-27 at the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas. Photo: Courtesy of Kimberly Durnan [Diocese of Dallas] The message of hope in a tumultuous world is the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ, and the recurring theme for the…

Every October, Christ Church in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, hosts a pumpkin patch to raise money to support its ministries and the local food pantry and education programs. Photo: Courtesy of Nicholas “Nick” D’Amato [Episcopal News Service] Christ Church in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, will host its 20th annual volunteer-led pumpkin patch Oct. 6-31. Proceeds from the…

[Church of England] Congregation members from two parishes will be marking the United Kingdom’s Black History Month – October – by celebrating their connection to one of the 18th century’s most famous figures in the campaign to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. Writer and campaigner Olaudah Equiano, who was enslaved but later bought his own…