Uncategorized

[Episcopal News Service] St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Framingham, Massachusetts, was one of five churches in the state that experienced anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism in the past 10 days. The five churches were in four cities southwest of Boston, and in addition to St. Andrew’s, three were Congregational churches, and one was an Evangelical Lutheran Church in…

[Anglican Journal — Anglican Church of Canada] A historic Anglican church in Jasper, Alberta, is gone after a wildfire burned the nearly 100-year-old building to the ground. Bishop of Edmonton Stephen London confirmed in an open letter that St. Mary and St. George Parish was destroyed on July 24 along with many homes in the town…

[World Council of Churches] A delegation from the World Council of Churches and ecumenical partners including the Middle East Council of Churches, ACT Alliance and Caritas Internationalis met online with His Beatitude Theophilos III, patriarch of Jerusalem, and other Heads of Churches in Jerusalem on Aug. 7. The delegation is visiting the Holy Land virtually…

In this Aug. 7, 1974, file photo, Philippe Petit, a French highwire artist, walks across a tightrope suspended between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York. Petit and his companions surreptitiously strung a wire between New York City’s recently constructed World Trade Towers on Aug. 6, 1974, and Petit walked across it the…

The Rev. Lorenzo Lebrija, executive director of TryTank Research Institute. [Religion News Service] First, there was Xian’er, the cartoon-like, mantra-chanting robot Buddhist monk that China introduced in 2015. Then there was the German “BlessU-2” robot that dispensed blessings using ATM parts, and Pepper, the Japanese robot priest that delivered funeral rites. Now a new generation of religious AI is emerging with…

New deacon the Rev. Edwin Way (top left) is joined by Central New York Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe (center), his wife Day Moo (front left), his daughter Grace (front right) and the Rev. Christine Williams-Belt, rector of Grace Church in Utica, New York (top right). Photo: Rachel Ravelette [Episcopal News Service] Edwin Win, of Grace Church…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The moderator of the Church of Bangladesh and bishop of Dhaka, the Most Rev. Samuel Sunil Mankhin, has written to mission partners and well-wishers calling them to pray for Bangladesh in light of the recent unrest in the country, where hundreds of lives have been lost.   He said, “We believe in…

[Religion News Service — London] After six nights of anti-Muslim and anti-migrant rioting, with looting, assaults on police and hotels set on fire, imams and Muslim community leaders are working with police to increase security at mosques across Britain. Far-right groups launched the violent protests after falsely alleging that a foreign-born Muslim was behind the July 29 knife…

SewGreen@Rochester, affiliated with the Diocese of Rochester in New York, offers free workshops and low-cost sewing, knitting, crochet and needlework classes for children and adults. The nonprofit also offers sewing machine repair services and sells donated fiber arts products at low cost. Photo: SewGreen@Rochester/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Georgia Carney worked in professional costume…

[Anglican Taongo] Pacific Anglican leaders and theological educators will gather this week for a special Fono, or council, to converse on future directions in theological education and ministry leadership formation in the region’s Anglican churches. The Fono gathers the six primates of the Anglican Church in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Kanaky New Caledonia,…