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[Episcopal News Service] Official worship during the six legislative days of the 81st General Convention during its June 23-28 meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, will feature three joint services of the Holy Eucharist and two Morning Prayer services, as well as Morning Prayer in the meeting spaces of the House of Deputies and the House of…

[Episcopal News Service] The House of Deputies’ Young Adult Caucus has issued a letter to the 81st General Convention amplifying churchwide calls for reform of The Episcopal Church’s Title IV disciplinary canons for bishops and other clergy. The letter, submitted as a memorial resolution, expresses “grave concern” about the current state of clergy discipline “and…

[Anglican Church of Canada] The Canadian Church Historical Society has published a special edition of its annual Journal, focusing on the Mohawk Institute, the oldest continuously operated residential school in Canada. Entitled Documents of the Mohawk Institute: The Journals and Reports of Robert Ashton, 1872-1876 and the Diary of Alice Ashton, 1877, the volume consists of primary…

[World Council of Churches] “The ill health and suffering experienced by the least and the most vulnerable must be felt by and responded to by all in a united, equitable, effective, and mutually accountable manner,” wrote the Rev. Jerry Pillay, World Council of Churches general secretary, in a message to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III) held its annual plenary meeting at the Centre Culturel Saint-Thomas in Strasbourg, France, May 11-18. It continued to work on the second part of its mandate examining how the church discerns local, regional and universal right ethical teaching. Drafting the Agreed Statement for this phase…

[Episcopal News Service] Work is underway to remove 1920’s era tiles bearing swastikas – once a symbol of welcome and prosperity – from the floor of a Diocese of New Jersey building. There were about 14 tiles with swastikas in a building on the Diocese of New Jersey’s campus in Trenton. Photo: Courtesy of the…

Northern Indiana Bishop Douglas Sparks speaks during the May 24 meeting of the bishops’ and deputies’ legislative committees on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations. [Episcopal News Service] General Convention’s committees on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations on May 24 adopted a resolution that celebrates the United Methodist Church’s recent decision to remove restrictions on LGBTQ+ clergy and…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Rt. Rev. Anthony Poggo, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, attended the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Sean Semple, who becomes the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf. The consecration service was held at St. Christopher’s Cathedral in Manama on May 24, and it was the…

[World Council of Churches] World Council of Churches general secretary the Rev. Jerry Pillay expressed grave concern in the wake of a landslide in Papua New Guinea that has killed at least 670 people, according to United Nations reports. The landslide hit a rural region of the island nation on May 24, but search-and-rescue efforts…

A photo of an unidentified chaplain giving Communion to soldiers on a World War I battlefield in Austria-Hungary is part of the Sacred Service exhibit at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: Melodie Woerman/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service — Kansas City, Missouri] The work of Episcopal and…