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[Episcopal News Service] West Tennessee Bishop Phoebe Roaf, whose diocese is based in Memphis, issued a statement Sept. 29 responding to the Trump administration’s deployment of troops to the city to combat crime. Residents want safe communities, Roaf said, but she emphasized the need to trust local leaders and instead address the root causes of…

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of the Great Lakes and Assisting Bishop Anne Hodges-Copple issued a statement calling for prayers after a Sept. 28 mass shooting and arson attack at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, a suburb of Flint, left four people dead and eight…

descendants and members of the VTS board break ground for the Reparations Memorial. Photo: VTS [Episcopal News Service] Virginia Theological Seminary held a groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 25 for a memorial on its campus in Alexandria that will honor African Americans, enslaved and free, who labored at the seminary from 1823 to 1951. The memorial, to…

The Rev. Daramali Abudigin. Photo: Courtesy of Daramali Abudigin [Religion News Service] A priest of the Anglican Church of Sudan who stayed in El-Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur, to serve Christians remaining there, is now homeless after paramilitary violence forced him out of his church. The Rev. Daramali Abudigin, 44, kept his St. Mathew…

A hiker walks in the Los Padres National Forest in California. Photo: U.S. Forest Service [Episcopal News Service] The Green Team, a creation-care ministry at All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Montecito, California, is environmentally active in ways you might expect, and some you might not: beach clean-ups, outdoor choruses at dawn, birding trips, boat…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Episcopal Church of South Sudan is in a country experiencing political upheaval, instability and prolonged periods of violence over many years, even after South Sudan became an independent nation in 2011. Despite ongoing reconciliation dialogues being encouraged by international bodies, a sustainable and peaceful remedy has not yet been reached in…

[Anglican Communion News Service] Due to heavy, sustained rainfall in recent months, the Church of Pakistan, United has urged Anglican sisters and brothers to pray for those in their province who have been impacted by the floods. The local church has also been involved in distributing relief items such as baby food and sanitation kits…

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Laurent De Prins, rector of Epiphany Opelousas in the Diocese of Western Louisiana, had just finished speaking by phone with Episcopal News Service about the clean water crisis affecting his community when he received an alert underscoring just how severe that crisis has become. De Prins and other Opelousas residents…

All Saints Episcopal Church in Frederick, Maryland, is just one of the churches in the Episcopal Dicoese of Maryland that has seen an increase in newcomers attending services this year. Photo: All Saints [Episcopal News Service] Earlier this year Maryland Bishop Carrie Schofield-Broadbent began to hear reports of a growing number of new people coming…

[Anglican Communon News Service] The centennial of the Malines Conversations, a milestone in Anglican–Roman Catholic dialogue, was marked Sept. 21 in Mechelen, Belgium, with a four-day conference, an academic session and a concluding Evensong service at Saint Rumbold’s Cathedral. The Malines Conversations were a series of five informal ecumenical conversations held from 1921 to 1927…