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[Church in Wales] Saint Deiniol’s Cathedral in Bangor, Wales,  has been awarded “The Freedom of the City of Bangor,” the highest honor the City Council can bestow, in recognition of its substantial contributions to the community throughout its long history. The award comes as the city celebrates its 1500th anniversary in 2025. In a unanimous decision…

The Rev. Spencer Reese, vicar of St. Paul’s, Wickford, Rhode Island, and an accomplished poet, is the recipient of the 2025 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Photo: Spencer Reese [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal priest and poet the Rev. Spencer Reese last week was awarded the John Updike Award from…

On March 10, 2025, the first day of the 69th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – CSW69, Julia Ayala Harris, president of the House of Deputies and one of six delegates presenting Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe, preached during a livestreamed Eucharist at the Chapel of Christ the Lord at the Episcopal Church…

The National Park Service website about the Rev. Pauli Murray Family Home, a National Historic Landmark, has been edited to remove a biography of Murray as well as references to Murray’s transgender and queer nature. Photo: Pauli Murray Center [Episcopal News Service] The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham, North Carolina,…

[Anglican Journal] The Anglican Church of Canada should consider making major cuts to the size of its governance gatherings and committees, says the report of a commission tasked with reimagining its future. The church is about a quarter the size it was in 1967, but its governance groups remain the same size, the commission’s chair, Archdeacon…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican Communion’s United Nations representative in Geneva, the Rev. Glen Ruffle, spoke to the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council in late February about the need for politicians in South Sudan to show more commitment to the nation’s peace process. Tensions in South Sudan are rising, and on…

The Rev. Chris Yaw, rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Southfield, Michigan, is interviewed on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” [Episcopal News Service] An Episcopal church in Michigan was featured on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” for a humorous segment about a very serious issue: gun violence. Desi Lydic, a correspondent on the satirical…

Fourteen Episcopalians volunteered to transfer a baptismal font, an altar cross and a processional cross from Fryeburg, Maine, to Riverside Episcopal Church in McCalla, Alabama. The journey was dubbed the “font relay” on Facebook. Photo: Melissa Bailey [Episcopal News Service] Ten states; 1,560 miles. Eleven parishes and a seminary student; 14 adult volunteers and a…

[Episcopal News Service] Saint Augustine’s University, the historically Black college with Episcopal roots in Raleigh, North Carolina, has been dealt another setback in its ongoing fight for survival after its accrediting agency denied the school’s latest appeal. The accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, or SACSCOC, is in the…

[Diocese of Los Angeles] Members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Pomona, California, launched a ministry to help dress young girls around the world and revitalized community in their own backyard. On a recent Saturday, about a dozen women and men in the church’s Sophia room were busily laying out patterns, cutting, stitching and ironing…