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[Church in Wales] The Electoral College of the Church in Wales will meet at St. Pierre Church and Hotel in Chepstow on July 29 to choose the 15th archbishop of Wales. The college can take up to three days to elect an archbishop. This election follows the retirement of the bishop of Bangor, the Rt. Rev….

[World Council of Churches] His Beatitude Theophilos III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, made a pastoral and humanitarian visit to the Gaza Strip on July 18. This visit comes in the wake of repeated assaults on Christian holy sites in Gaza. The visit closely followed the…

[Anglican Taonga] Brad Wood, youth coordinator for the Diocese of Nelson in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, has added 40 new designs to his set of well-received 80 Aotearoa-New Zealand inspired “Formatio” cards. They are designed for use by spiritual directors, youth workers and Christians at prayer. Wood’s first set of spiritual conversation…

The Council of Nicaea is depicted in a 16th century fresco by Giovanni Guerra and Cesare Nebbia in the Salone Sistino of the Vatican Library. [Episcopal News Service] When some 200 bishops and the hundreds of others who accompanied them arrived at the town of Nicaea in modern-day Turkey in 325, they had before them…

[Diocese of Taiwan] The Rt. Rev. Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang, bishop of the Diocese of Taiwan, has called for the election of his successor.  Chang was elected the sixth bishop of Taiwan in August 2019.  He was consecrated and installed in February 2020. The diocese’s standing committee has formed a nomination committee in preparation for the…

[Episcopal News Service] Two alumnae and two children with ties to the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, are among the 134 known people who were killed by the July 4 floods in the Texas Hill Country. “This tragedy has touched not only residents of the region but also families across the country for…

[Episcopal News Service] Cristosal, an Episcopal-affiliated organization committed to defending human rights and promoting democratic rule of law in Central America, was forced to suspend its operations in El Salvador, though its work will continue from offices in Guatemala and Honduras, according to a July 17 press release. The suspension of operations comes after El Salvador’s…

Rain falls over a makeshift memorial for flood victims along the Guadalupe River, July 13, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas. Photo: Eric Gay/AP [Episcopal News Service] The San Antonio-based Diocese of West Texas is assessing how best to assist with immediate and long-term recovery efforts after July 4 floodwaters killed at least 134 people and left…

[Episcopal News Service] Churches for Middle East Peace, a coalition of more than 30 organizations and churches of which The Episcopal Church is a member, released a statement July 16 condemning the Israeli government’s plan to forcibly relocate more than 600,000 displaced Palestinians to camps in Rafah. The following is the full text of Churches…

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe issued the following letter to the church on July 16, as the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate.   Yesterday, Archbishop Hosam Naoum of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East gave a powerful address to the Church of England’s annual Synod in York about the…