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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…

[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…

The Rev. Roger Haenke is the subject of a Title IV proceeding by the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, based on an allegation that he had engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor. Photo: Wesbite of St. John’s, Chula Vista, California [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego on Aug. 5 issued a…

[Episcopal News Service] The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Easton on Aug. 4 announced the appointment of a Steering Committee to work with the Rt. Rev. Mary Gray-Reeves to plan listening gatherings across the diocese beginning in November. The gatherings’ purpose will be to support reconciliation and healing in the diocese. The Steering Committee…

Elizabeth “Ketty” De Los Santos, right, a 59-year-old grandmother from Peru and a parishioner of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in White Plains, New York, was arrested and detained by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents on July 31 at Federal Plaza in Manhattan after leaving a routine asylum hearing. Photo: St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church/Facebook [Episcopal…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Rt. Rev. James Lule, bishop of the Diocese of Kajo Keji in South Sudan, 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 near the village of Bori…

[Scottish Episcopal Church] The General Synod Office of the Scottish Episcopal Church is to move to a new home in Edinburgh city center, while the long-term future of Forbes House is addressed. Modern office space has been identified close to the existing GSO premises, offering strong public transport links and good accessibility, and negotiations on a…

Yeonsoo “Soo” Go reunited with her mother, the Rev. Kyrie Kim, an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of New York, after being released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Aug. 4. She was arrested and detained for allegedly overstaying her visa, though it’s not set to expire until December. Photo: Screenshot [Episcopal News…

The Rt. Rev. Hays Rockwell, the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Missouri, died Aug. 2 at his home in West Kingston, Rhode Island. Photo: Providence Journal obituary [Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Hays Rockwell, who served as a bishop in the Diocese of Missouri for 11 years, died in his sleep Aug. 2…

[Episcopal News Service] The Fargo-based Diocese of North Dakota on Aug. 4 announced a slate of four candidates for the diocese’s 12th bishop. They are: The Rev. Lecia Diaz Brannon, director of alumni relations for the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas; The Very Rev. Shay Craig, dean of Christ Cathedral in Salina, Kansas;…