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[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…

Acacia Theatre Company rehearses ” An Inspector Calls” in the theater space that St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church created in a former storage room in its basement. Photo: Acacia Theatre Company [Episcopal News Service] Inside St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in River Hills, Wisconsin, a short walk down a flight of stairs gets you to a small but…

The Rev. Bryan Velez of the Diocese of Puerto Rico offers ashes to a woman on a street in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, on Ash Wednesday. Photo: Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Churches across The Episcopal Church marked Ash Wednesday with services and the imposition of ashes in churches, parks, online, on city streets and other…

[Anglican Taonga] The 2025 Anglican Missions’ Lenten Appeal offers Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia donors a chance to support climate resilience in the Solomon Islands — notably on the climate-change affected Pacific atoll of Ontong Java — and the humanitarian work of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East in Gaza and the…

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church is one of 45 religious groups to initially sign Church World Service’s declaration calling on faith communities nationwide to stand against anti-immigrant policies through advocacy and prayer. Church World Service, of which The Episcopal Church is a “covenant member,” is an ecumenical organization that provides international disaster relief and…

The Rev. Cathy Carpenter, priest-in-charge at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Valparaiso, Indiana, imposes ashes on a driver on Feb. 14, 2024. The church offers Ashes to Go as a convenience for people who are unable to attend full Ash Wednesday services in the middle of the week. Photo: Shireen Korkzan/ENS [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal…