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Episcopal churches throughout the Diocese of Northern Michigan are marking the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives as a monthlong observance by displaying red dresses in May. Each participating parish will display dresses outside and inside the parish. Photo: Diocese of Northern Michigan/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal churches throughout…

[Episcopal News Service] Trinity Episcopal Church’s experimentations with intergenerational worship started in 2024 after a simple decision. The Sunday nursery at the church in Kirksville, Missouri, was getting too crowded and chaotic, so the congregation decided that children ages 7 and older would join their parents in the pews during worship services. The Rev. Carrol…

[Episcopal News Service] Several church leaders in the Diocese of Haiti are headed to trial in a weapons trafficking case, after an appeals court in the Caribbean island country reversed a lower court ruling that had dismissed the charges. The latest developments in the ongoing criminal case create new uncertainty for a diocese that has…

[Diocese of Southern Ohio] The Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio gives thanks for the life and ministry of its ninth bishop diocesan, the Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Breidenthal, who died May 14 surrounded by his family. He was 75. Elected bishop in 2006 and consecrated the following year, Breidenthal served the Diocese of Southern Ohio…

Bunk beds at the shelter for unhoused people inside St. Paul’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Ocean City, Maryland. Photo: Courtesy of Jill Williams [Episcopal News Service] Nearly six weeks after St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in downtown Ocean City, Maryland, opened its overnight shelter for unhoused people inside its building, city officials charged the parish…

[Church of England] The good news of Christ needs to be shared, Pope Leo said in a May 14 video message marking the start of the worldwide Thy Kingdom Come prayer movement for more people to come to know Jesus. Christ is “everything” for us and in him we find fullness of life and its…

[Episcopal News Service] When the Rev. Chris Corbin looks at The Episcopal Church’s membership and attendance numbers, he sees bright spots. Corbin, a priest in the Diocese of Wisconsin, has launched a project with backing from Forward Movement called the Growing Episcopal Churches Study. In it, he already has obtained survey responses from hundreds of…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches’ Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing will send a five-person delegation to participate in the 79th World Health Assembly May 17-23 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Rev. Stavros Kofinas, moderator of the Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing, will lead the delegation. Delegates…

[World Council of Churches] Every Sunday, the Rev. Daramali Ismael Gabriel Abudigin leads a two-hours church service in Tawila, as small town in western Sudan’s Darfur region. The 45-year-old Anglican priest is the town’s only church pastor, which recently absorbed thousands of internally displaced people who are fleeing war and famine in El-Fasher, the capital…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches presidents published a Pentecost message May 12 titled “The Holy Spirit Invites Reimagined Communities of Unity.” The message calls on Christians to invite the Holy Spirit to “transform us so that we can be more like Jesus.” Pentecost Sunday, which is celebrated 50 days after Easter…