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Through its healing garden, St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, supports environmental justice through horticultural therapy, which involves promoting human healing and rehabilitation through gardening activities. Photo: St. Ambrose Episcopal Church/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] For decades, the historically Black St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in southeastern Raleigh, North Carolina, has focused much of its…

[Anglican Church of Canada] The destruction by fire of St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto last June underscores risks faced by aging churches across Canada, an architectural historian says — and the country could face significant loss of cultural heritage in the years to come. Peter Coffman, a Carleton University art and architectural history professor who…

[Anglican Communion News Service] Anglican Communion Secretary General the Rt. Rev. Anthony Poggo recently completed a visit to the Anglican Church of Burundi. His visit involved an address to the House of Bishops, meeting with community project teams and preaching at the ordination service of six new deacons. Poggo was hosted by Archbishop Sixbert Macumi,…

Presiding Bishop-elect Sean Rowe speaks Sept. 23 to Executive Council’s Joint Budget Committee during a meeting at the Maritime Conference Center in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] Presiding Bishop-elect Sean Rowe, who will be installed as the denominational leader in a little over a month,…

[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of Florida will remain without a diocesan bishop for the foreseeable future, after some Florida Episcopalians’ request for a new bishop search was tabled indefinitely at its recent diocesan convention. The Florida Standing Committee, in a statement to Episcopal News Service after the convention, said it is “continuing to lead…

Image: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay/Creative Commons [Religion News Service] As many as 100,000 church-owned buildings are expected to be sold or repurposed by 2030, according to an analysis in a new book, “Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition.” Though Sunday attendance has recovered in part from COVID-19 restrictions, a decades-long decline has continued…

[Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury] Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby called for a renewed commitment to peace in a world of conflict in a speech to the International Meeting for Peace in Paris. Addressing the opening assembly of “Imagine Peace” on Sept. 22, Welby set out a Christian vision of peace and reconciliation, which…

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry spoke to more than 1,000 people gathered on Zoom Sept. 24, 2024, during a fall online launch event for Sacred Ground, a year-round, 11-part film-based antiracism curriculum for small-group discussions. Photo: Screenshot [Episcopal News Service] “Sacred Ground is about freedom. It’s about the joyful liberty of the children of God,” Presiding…

[World Council of Churches] The general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Jerry Pillay, met with South Korean prime minister Han Duck-soo on Sept. 24. Pillay was accompanied by the Rev. Kenneth Mtata, WCC program director for Public Witness and Diakonia;  the general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea,…

[The Anglican Journal] An Anglican Church of Canada primate’s commission tasked with rethinking church structures is encouraging Anglicans to provide feedback on its seven intentionally provocative statements or “hypotheses” through an online survey. The commission, Reimagining the Church—Proclaiming the Gospel in the 21st Century, established by former primate Archbishop Linda Nicholls, first presented the hypotheses…