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Visitors to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brighton, Michigan, Sept. 19-21 can light candles at a memorial altar in the church nave to remember deceased cast members of the “Gilmore Girls” TV show during the city’s Destination Stars Hollow weekend. Photo: St. Paul’s [Episcopal News Service] From Sept. 19-21, the city of Brighton, Michigan, will…

[Episcopal News Service] Angel Rivera was ordained and consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Cuba Sept. 18 at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Havana. Rivera’s ordination marks a significant step toward self-determination for the Havana-based church in Cuba, which formally reunified with The Episcopal Church in 2020 after five years of efforts that…

[Episcopal News Service] A quick Episcopal liturgical quiz: How many rites for Holy Eucharist are contained in the Book of Common Prayer? If you said four, you’d be wrong – the prayer book offers the traditional Rite One, the contemporary Rite Two and a third liturgical order available for special circumstances – but a liturgy…

[Episcopal News Service] Dallas Bishop George Sumner said Sept. 18 in a message to the diocese that he intends to retire from leadership of the diocese on Jan. 1, handing ecclesiastical authority to his successor Bishop Coadjutor Robert Price, who was consecrated earlier this month. “I will have completed a little more than 10 years…

Giulia Bonoldi, managing director of the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center, left, gives a tour on Sept. 17 to Janet Day-Strehlow, an Episcopal Migration Ministries Province II liaison, the Rev. Sarah Shipman, EMM’s director, center, and Max Niedzwiecki, who serves on The Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on World Mission, as Holly Masterman, right, a JNRC volunteer,…

[Anglican Communon News Service] “Lungs of the Earth” is a call for environmental action and advocacy, shared Sept. 16 from the Anglican Communion Office. The initiative will invite Anglican churches to “restore and protect the lungs of the earth” with a focus on three vital ecosystems: cceans, forests and ice caps. The initiative will amplify…

[Episcopal News Service] Layan Nasir, the 25-year-old Anglican Palestinian woman who spent eight months last year in administrative detention by the Israeli government, has been declared guilty by an Israeli court and given a prison sentence of seven-and-a-half months. Nasir is a member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Birzeit in the occupied West Bank….

Episcopal bishops pose for a group photo at the House of Bishops’ Sept. 10-15 meeting at the Coral Costa Caribe Beach Resort in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic. Photo: Frank Logue [Episcopal News Service — Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic] After visiting several mission sites in the Santo Domingo-based Diocese of the Dominican Republic, engaging in conversations…

Massachusetts Bishop Julia Whitworth prays with Blanca Martinez at a rally in Burlington before her appointment with federal immigration officials. Photo: St. Peter’s-San Pedro Episcopal Church, via Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians from across the Diocese of Massachusetts joined a large group of community members on Sept. 16 in rallying behind an immigrant from Honduras…

[Diocese of East Carolina] The Diocese of East Carolina’s Search Committee has announced a slate of three nominees to stand for election as the ninth bishop of East Carolina during the Nov. 14-15 diocesan convention at the Maxwell Convention Center in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Approved by the diocesan Standing Committee on Sept. 4, the nominees…