Author: wwedderburn

During the 45th anniversary week of St. Óscar Romero’s martyrdom, Cristosal hosted an ecumenical group on a pilgrimage in El Salvador from March 21-24, 2025, to commemorate his life and teachings. Here, the group is at the altar of the chapel inside the Hospital of Divine Providence in San Salvador, where Romero was assassinated on…

[Episcopal News Service] Imagine attending an Episcopal worship service on Sunday, sitting down in one of the pews and facing ahead to see a 20-foot representation of the moon levitating over the altar. No imagination will be required at Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York. Starting April 11, the cathedral will welcome…

The 2025 AAPI Clergy and Lay Leadership April 2-4 retreat is taking place at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City, Missouri. New York Bishop Suffragan Allen K. Shin, third from left in the front row, and West Missouri Bishop Provisional Diane Jardine Bruce, third from right in the front row, formed the first…

[Religion News Service] Although the All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Khartoum, Sudan, suffered huge damage in the two-year battle for the Sudanese capital, the country’s archbishop is relieved the structure was never bombed. Speaking on April 1, days after the Sudanese Armed Forces, the national army, had recaptured the city from the paramilitary Rapid Support…

[Religion News Service] Outside, on the banks of a chilly river flowing into the blue-black waters of Hudson Bay, it was only 10 degrees. Inside St. Thomas Anglican Church, in the northern Canadian hamlet of Inukjuak, about 70 people were gathered – one of them an imposing, 6-foot-1 man with a thatch of white hair, a…

Education for Ministry is celebrating 50 years of providing local theological formation with new offerings and a celebratory birthday event later this year. Photo: Education for Ministry [Episcopal News Service] In advance of its 50th anniversary celebration in June, Education for Ministry has announced new, shorter options meant to engage more people in theological formation…

[Melbourne Anglican] A parish church in Vermont, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, has created a safe space for youth in the Chinese community to find connection and encouragement. The vicar of Holy Name Anglican Church, the Rev. Grace Wang, and parishioner and counselor Ping Luo saw a need with young people disconnected from family and…

[Episcopal News Service] An interfaith prayer vigil in Washington, D.C., is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. April 3, the eve of the first hearing in The Episcopal Church’s joint lawsuit with partner denominations seeking to protect houses of worship from immigration enforcement actions. The vigil will be held at National City Christian Church and will be…

[Church of Ireland] A Church of Ireland rector in the Diocese of Clogher is undertaking a pilgrimage of a different kind by walking from his church in Fermanagh to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. The Rev. Stephen McWhirter, rector of Rossorry Parish Church, will be walking from the landmark church on the outskirts of Enniskillen in…

On March 30, former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby did an interview with the BBC in which he said he failed to follow up allegations of abuse by John Smyth within the Church of England because the scale of the problem was “absolutely overwhelming.” He added the scale of the problem was “a reason –…