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[Episcopal News Service] The General Theological Seminary, the historic Episcopal seminary in New York City, announced Aug. 11 that it had received state approval to lease its Chelsea neighborhood campus to Vanderbilt University. The 99-year lease to Vanderbilt, which is based in Nashville, Tennessee, was first announced in September 2024 as part of General Theological…

[Anglican Communon News Service] The bishop of Lesotho, the Rt. Rev. Joseph Aba Nicanor, has sent a letter to the presidents of Uganda and South Sudan following border conflicts on July 28, in which eight people died. As reported in Anglican News, the incident took place in an area of shared borders in the Nyaingamuda area,…

Former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry (left) joins Mississippi Bishop Dorothy Wells in an Aug. 10 discussion about the impact of the death of Emmett Till, 70 years after his murder. Photo: YouTube screenshot [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi marked 70 years since the murder of Emmett Till with two weekend events at…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Kajo Keji has made an appeal for humanitarian intervention following surprise attacks between South Sudanese and Ugandan soldiers on July 28 in South Sudan’s Kajo Keji county. The incident took place on shared borders in the Nyaingamuda area, Bori Boma of Kangapo II Payam,…

Becky Hope while attending a retreat for digital congregants of Good Shepherd in New York City. Hope also attends Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in person in Portland, Oregon. Photo: Alex Scott/RNS [Religion News Service] After Becky Hope left the evangelical church she had been attending in Portland, Oregon, four years ago, she began watching online services…

During his time in Alabama, Jonathan Daniels lived with the West family in Selma. The family, Alice West has said, kept their doors open to so-called “outside agitators” working in the civil rights movement. Daniels became a part of her family, she said. Photo: Archives of The Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service — Dyer, Indiana]…

[Religion News Service]  When the Rev. Tanya Lopez talks about the day in June when she had to confront masked agents in her church parking lot, she focuses on the man they detained. As the pastor of Downey Memorial Christian Church near Los Angeles, California, she said her primary concern was the person being taken…

[Episcopal News Service] A third Episcopalian in the Diocese of New York was arrested and detained by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement this week at Federal Plaza in Manhattan. The unnamed Episcopalian is a parishioner of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Midtown Manhattan. He was detained while going to a routine asylum…

[Anglican CommunionNews Service] 2025 marks 80 years since the nuclear attacks that were instrumental in ending the Second World War. The atomic bombs detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, resulted in devastating loss of life. This year, the House of Bishops of Nippon Sei Ko Kai (the Anglican Church in…

Workers with World Central Kitchen provide a hot meal to children in the central Gaza community of Deir Al-Balah. A new initiative by the Diocese of New York to help feed starving Gazans encourages people to donate to the organization. Photo: Courtesy of World Central Kitchen [Episcopal News Service] In a July 30 email, New…