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[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of Georgia plans to move from its current diocesan offices into another Savannah building vacated last year when one of the diocese’s churches closed, a shift that Bishop Frank Logue said brings numerous financial and ministry benefits. The current diocesan offices are located on 34th Street in Savanah in a…

[World Council of Churches] Churches in Africa remain on alert as mpox continues to spread in parts of the continent, prompting international health organizations to declare it a health emergency. Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a viral disease caused by monkeypox virus and is in the same family as smallpox. Last week the World…

[Episcopal News Service] The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine announced Aug. 20 that it had received a $1.5 million grant from the city of New York to renovate a historic building on its Upper Manhattan campus and expand the social services it offers through the Cathedral Community Cares program. The goal is to…

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Altoona, Pennsylvania, was sold to a local contractor and property manager, but the congregation has leased back space in the sanctuary to continue worshipping there. Photo: Audrey Scanlan, via Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Worshippers gather Sundays inside the nave at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Altoona, Pennsylvania, just like they…

The Rev. Melanie Mullen (third from left), director of reconciliation, justice and creation in the Office of the Presiding Bishop, was among a group of faith leaders who attended a meeting with the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House. Photo: Melanie Mullen [Episcopal…

Primates representing the Americas from left, the Most Rev. Brian Williams, Anglican Church of South America; the Most Rev. Juan David Alvarado Melgar, the Anglican Chuch of Central America; the Most Rev. Linda Nicholls, the Anglican Church of Canada; the Most Rev. Marinez Rosa Dos Santos Bassoto, the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil; the Most…

[The Melbourne Anglican] Christians will be asked to pray for an end to cruelty to refugees, including those left in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, at an Aug. 16 vigil on the steps of Victoria’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. More than 100 asylum seekers remain in Papua New Guinea and Nauru more than a decade after…

[Anglican Church of Canada] The most recent meeting of the Mennonite-Anglican Dialogue in Canada took place earlier this summer in Winnipeg. The Mennonite-Anglican Dialogue in Canada was created in 2017 with a mandate to build up understanding and to encourage greater partnership between these two distinct Christian communities. This round of dialogue has been asked…

Alabama Bishop Glenda Curry prays in front of the site of Varner’s Cash Store, where white Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels was killed on Aug. 20, 1965, protecting a Black civil rights activist from a gunshot blast by a white part-time deputy. Photo: Shireen Korkzan/ENS [Episcopal News Service – Hayneville, Alabama] Angel Williams, a 15-year-old from…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches, accompanied by partners from the Middle East Council of Churches, ACT Alliance and Caritas Internationalis, released a video media briefing on a recent ecumenical solidarity visit to the Holy Land held online Aug. 7-8. The visit served as an opportunity to accompany member churches and ecumenical…