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Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter’s Square for his May 18 inauguration. The Chicago, Illinois-born Robert Francis Prevost is the first pontiff from the United States. Photo: Michael Kappeler/AP Images Editor’s note: This story will be updated as comments from the Anglican delegates are released. [Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe joined a…

Volunteers fill bags of dry dog and cat food for Pete’s Pet Food Pantry, a ministry of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Buffalo, New York. Photo: Pete’s Pet Food Pantry/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] When the Rev. Lucinda “Pete” Dempsey-Sims was a deacon at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Buffalo, New…

Christ Episcopal Church Parish House, built in 1882, would house a 17-bed overnight shelter for people in search of permanent housing. It currently hosts the offices of the Affordable Housing Alliance and the Toms River Housing and Homeless Coalition. The Affordable Housing Alliance would run the shelter. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News…

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church released a letter May 15 from Southern Africa Archbishop Thabo Makgoba thanking the U.S.-based church for declining the Trump administration’s request to help resettle white South Africans in the United States – a policy that Makgoba said is based on false assumptions about his country. Upon taking office in…

The Rev. Christopher Easthill, rector of St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican-Episcopal Church in Wiesbaden, Germany, serves as chair of the Council of Churches in Germany. He is the first Episcopal priest to hold that position. Photo: Courtesy of Christopher Easthill [Episcopal News Service] Earlier this year, the Rev. Christopher Easthill, rector of St. Augustine of…

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…