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[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…

The Standing Commission on Structure, Governance, Constitution and Canons meets in October 2023 in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Frank Logue [Episcopal News Service] More than 1,500 people have applied to serve on The Episcopal Church’s interim bodies – the commissions, task forces, boards and other committees that conduct the work of the church between meetings…

[Episcopal News Service] Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor on Aug. 13 announced the timeline for the election and consecration of his successor over the next two years, with an election planned for November 2025 and a service of ordination, consecration “and passing of the crozier” on July 11, 2026. He then will remain as a…

[Scottish Episcopal Church]  The Rev. Diana Hall, rector of St. Anne’s Scottish Episcopal and Methodist Church in Dunbar, has been training for more than seven months for the Great Norse Run  — a 10-day, coast-to-coast run across Iceland. The 209-mile run will include crossing half a dozen rivers, four days of seeing nothing but volcanic sand,…

[World Council of Churches] A working group of the World Council of Churches’ Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing has released a message, “A call for cross-generational action on the Mental Health of Youth.” The WCC observed Aug. 12 as an Ecumenical International Youth Day with the theme “Journey of Justice, Peace and…

[Church of England] A new pilot plan from the Church of England is helping churches double their money for carbon-cutting projects. Give To Go Green is a match-funding pilot from the Church of England’s Net Zero Program, working with churches to double locally raised donations, to help pay for carbon reducing projects. The scheme was…

Editor’s note: The cathedral was badly damaged by an earthquake in 2011. [Anglican Taonga] The Diocese of Christchurch received news on Aug. 9 that the country’s coalition government has chosen not to fund the roughly $36 million U.S. restoration shortfall for the city’s historic cathedral. The chair of Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Limited, Mark Stewart,…