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[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…

A musical based on the book Just Ask!, written by Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, had its first workshop in early August at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Missouri. The musical will be staged at Kansas City’s Coterie Theatre in 2025. Photo: Coterie Theatre website [Episcopal News Service] Supreme Court Associate Justice…

[World Council of Churches] On Aug. 7, a delegation from the World Council of Churches, accompanied by partners from the Middle East Council of Churches, ACT Alliance and Caritas Internationalis, heard the witness of some of those for whom the war has become a daily reality. The conversation formed part of a solidarity visit to…

[The Church of England] In response to riots and other violence taking place across the United Kingdom that have been fueled by misinformation online, the far-right and anti-immigration sentiment, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby joined other faith leaders in writing a letter to The Times praising those who volunteered to repair damage caused by rioters…

[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…