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The Anglican Consultative Council meets about every three years, with all 42 Anglican provinces invited to send representatives. This year’s meeting is being held June 28-July 4 at the Presbyterian Church’s Assembly Buildings Conference Centre in central Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo: Neil Turner for ACO [Episcopal News Service – Belfast, Northern Ireland] Anglican leaders sounded…

[Religion News Service] On a recent Friday morning, groups of young men on motorbikes roared around the grounds of the All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi to disrupt and scare those gathered for a civil meeting about the country’s proposed national budget reforms. Police officers initially repelled the estimated 50 bikers, who then spread panic into…

  Attendees of St. Mary Anne’s Episcopal Church’s monthly Bridging the Gap Faith and Recovery Service present the church’s rector, the Rev. John Schaeffer, with a picture of a goose. Geese used to frequently make messes on St. Mary Anne’s property, which is in the Diocese of Easton and sits near the North East River…

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s Washington, D.C.-based Office of Government Relations issued a statement on behalf of the church June 25 lamenting the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Trump administration in its attempt to restrict asylum-seekers’ entry into the country. The statement also took issue with a separate Supreme Court ruling…

Residents walk among the rubble of building damaged in earthquakes the previous day in Catia La Mar, Venezuela. June 25, 2026. Photo: Pedro Mattey/AP [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal and Anglican leaders are calling for prayers and offering support after back-to-back major earthquakes in Venezuela killed at least 188 people and injured at least 1,500 others…

Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, left, with Archbishop Hosam Naoum, bishop of the Diocese of Jerusalem and primate of the Anglican Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East, at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. June 2025. Photo: Lambeth Palace [Archbishop of Canterbury] Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally and Jerusalem Archbishop Hosam Naoum have written a…

The Rev. Canon Andy Moore introduces himself and St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church. Photo: Screenshot [Religion News Service] On a Sunday in March, the Rev. Andy Moore looked out at the empty back-left pews at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which had once been filled with Haitian immigrants. “We pray in a very…

The Diocese of Rhode Island’s Episcopal Conference Center in Pascoag. Photo: Courtesy of Kristin Knudson [Diocese of Rhode Island] After nearly a decade of planning and collaboration, construction has begun on a 2.9-megawatt solar energy project at the Episcopal Conference Center (ECC), a ministry of the Diocese of Rhode Island. The project is expected to…

Left to right: Verena Hammes, the Council of Christian Churches in Germany’s executive director; the Rev. Christopher Easthill, the Council of Christian Churches in Germany’s chair; and the Rev. Kirsten Guidero, The Episcopal Church’s ecumenical and interreligious relations officer. Photo: Jens Haverland [Council of Christian Churches in Germany] The Rev. Kirsten Guidero, The Episcopal Church’s…

[World Council of Churches] Faith leaders, government representatives, health professionals, development partners, researchers and disability organizations from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda have established a regional plan to promote disability-inclusive sexual and reproductive health and rights. The goal is to strengthen collaboration, knowledge sharing, research and policy advocacy across East Africa. The platform was established during…