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The Rev. Ranjit Mathews of The Episcopal Church speaks July 4 from the floor at the Anglican Consultative Council’s final day of its weeklong meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo: Neil Turner for ACO [Episcopal News Service – Belfast, Northern Ireland] The Rev. Ranjit Mathews, one of three Episcopal delegates to the 19th meeting of…

The Anglican Consultative Council votes July 4 in favor of a resolution calling for further discernment regarding possible revisions to the structure of the Anglican Communion. The ACC chose not to adopt the changes known as the Nairobi-Cairo proposals. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Belfast, Northern Ireland] The 19th Anglican Consultative…

Phillis Wheatley was a West African woman enslaved during the period of the American Revolution who became the first published African American author. Her book, “Poetry on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” was published in 1773. Photo: Smithsonian Institute [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal churches nationwide are hosting and participating in events commemorating the United States’…

Derry resident Richard Moore describes losing his eyesight at age 10 to a British soldier’s rubber bullet. His story was the focal point of the Anglican Consultative Council’s July 1 visit to St. Augustine’s Church in Derry during a daylong pilgrimage. Photo: Neil Turner for ACO [Episcopal News Service – Londonderry, Northern Ireland] The Peace…

[Diocese of Lexington] The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Lexington in Kentucky announced on July 1 the final slate for nominees for election as the diocese’s ninth bishop. With the successful addition of the Rev. Karen Booth as a petition candidate, the candidates are: The Rev. Karen Booth, rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in…

The Rev. Sue Carter, an Episcopal auxiliary chaplain based in the Diocese of Michigan, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard’s Eagle in 2025. Photo: Courtesy of Sue Carter [Episcopal News Service] The U.S. Coast Guard’s Eagle cutter will lead an international fleet of tall and gray hull ships as they sail into New York harbor and…

The U.S. Mint’s Rev. Pauli Murray quarter was released in 2024. It was the 11th quarter in the American Women’s Quarter Program; it celebrates Murray’s life as an activist, writer, lawyer and Episcopal priest. Photo: United States Mint [Episcopal News Service] If you ask New York Bishop Matthew Heyd for his two cents on how…

The Diocese of Alabama ordained and consecrated the Rt. Rev. Richard T. Lawson III as its 13th bishop on June 27 at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham. Photo: Courtesy of the Diocese of Alabama [Diocese of Alabama] The Diocese of Alabama ordained and consecrated the Rt. Rev. Richard T. Lawson III as…

The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order, or IASCUFO, presented its Nairobi-Cairo proposals on June 29 to initiate discussion of the proposals at sessions across three days of the weeklong meeting. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Belfast, Northern Ireland] The Episcopal Church is one of 42 member provinces in…

Members of the Episcopal Diocese of Venezuela’s response team pack emergency supplies for distribution at the diocesan center in Caracas on June 25, one day after back-to-back earthquakes devastated the northern state of La Guaira and Caracas. Photo: Courtesy of Jose Francisco Salazar [Episcopal News Service] Venezuela is still in the early stages of recovering…