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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe will join other leaders from across the Anglican Communion as part of an Anglican delegation attending a May 18 worship service in the…

[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, announced May 13 it is selling its diocesan headquarters to a nonprofit founded partly by the diocese in the 1980s that in recent years has expanded its ministry of serving people experiencing poverty, hunger and homelessness. The nonprofit, New Bethany, was founded through a partnership with the…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The central members and Anglican Communion representatives of the Canterbury Crown Nominations Commission were announced on May 13. This commission works prayerfully and collaboratively to discern and nominate the next archbishop of Canterbury. The Crown Nominations Commission for the archbishop of Canterbury nomination is larger than that for other diocesan bishops,…

The animal ministry at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, includes outreach to nearby veterinarians to let them know they are loved and their services are appreciated. Ending an animal’s life can take a psychological toll on veterinarians, who also must console owners who are grieving the loss of their pet, a family member….

White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 15, 2025. Photo: Associated Press [Episcopal News Service] When a small group of white South Africans, whom the Trump administration has deemed refugees, arrive in the United States this week, they will…

[World Council of Churches] Churches in Haiti are communicating with hearts overwhelmed by the growing suffering of their people, according to the Rev. Eliner Cadet, president of the National Coalition of Haitian Pastors. Cadet appealed for Christian solidarity and support, for united prayer for the Haitian people, and for the return of peace, justice and…

[Office of the Archbishop of York] On May 9, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell offered his thoughts in the Yorkshire Post on the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe over the Nazis, which took place on May 8. In it he called for the active defense of international law and the rules-based order that followed…

[Episcopal News Service] To say this year has been a busy one for The Episcopal Church’s Washington, D.C.-based Office of Government Relations would be an understatement. With President Donald Trump taking office for a second term in January and quickly upending many of the legal, political and diplomatic norms of the nation and its capital…

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Family (Iglesia Episcopal La Sagrada Familia) was built by farmworkers who are its members. Photo: Facebook [Episcopal News Service] An Episcopal congregation that serves seasonal farmworkers in southeast North Carolina has a new church building thanks to the hard work of church members who built it themselves. It’s the…

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP [Religion News Service] In a shocking vote that caught the Catholic world by surprise, the College of Cardinals elected Robert Francis Prevost, 69, the 267th pope on May 8. He is the…