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[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican Communion Youth Network has partnered with USPG – United Society Partners in the Gospel for the first meeting of the Emerging Leaders Academy in Japan. Participants from Bangladesh, Brazil, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Japan and the U.K. are currently attending a three-week residential, an integral part of this…

[Anglican Communion News Service] Bishop Anthon Poggo, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, has visited the Diocese of Kapsabet in the Anglican Church of Kenya. His visit has been hosted by the Rt. Rev. Paul Korir, bishop of Kapsabet; Celine Korir, president of Mothers’ Union in the diocese; staff from the diocesan office and the…

[Office of the Archbishop of York] Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell has set out a three-year focus called Faith in the North that will provide prayer, storytelling and church planting resources. The Faith in the North movement of prayer, storytelling and church planting is inspired by the Northern saints such as Hild, Cuthbert, Bede and…

The Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations meets in October 2023 in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: David Simmons, via Facebook [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s presiding offices are looking for a few hundred Episcopalians interested in volunteering their time on what are known as interim bodies, carrying out the business of…

[Anglican Taonga] General Synod has approved an audit of young people’s participation in the decision-making bodies of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, as part of a move to increase the number of young people involved in church leadership. The mover of Motion 7 on youth representation, Etienne Wain of the Diocese…

[Religion News Service] The first two openly gay and married bishops in the United Methodist Church were elected to their positions under a cloud. The denomination’s rulebook did not allow LGBTQ+ people to be ordained, much less consecrated as bishops. But for the first time in its history, the United Methodist Church has elected a third…

Methodist Bishop Gregory Palmer addresses the House of Bishops June 24 after it adopted a resolution commending the goal of full communion between The Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church. Photo: Randall Gornowich [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church is beginning work on the necessary next steps in advance of 2027, when the 82nd…

[World Council of Churches] The recently concluded 56th United Nations Human Rights Council adopted 25 resolutions related to children, climate, health and more. One resolution gives the U.N. the mandate to begin work to draft a new treaty aimed at extending the right to secondary and pre-primary education. Resolutions also were adopted on “the safety…

July 29 is the 50th anniversary of ordination of the Philadelphia Eleven — the first women ordained priests in The Episcopal Church at Philadelphia’s Church of the Advocate. Photo: Archives of The Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service] July 29 will mark 50 years of women’s ordination in The Episcopal Church, and Episcopalians across the church…

[Diocese of Rochester] The Rt. Rev. Kara Wagner Sherer was ordained and consecrated as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Rochester on July 13 at Asbury First United Methodist Church in Rochester, New York. Wagner Sherer, the first woman to serve as Rochester’s diocesan bishop, leads more than 5,000 Episcopalians across the Finger Lakes…