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Anglicans pack Maple Leaf Gardens for the opening service of the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress. Photo: Anglican Church of Canada Archives [Anglican Communion News Service] A conference marking the historic 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress is taking place April 12-13 at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Toronto, Canada. It will be a significant international conference, marking…

The Most Rev. Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, will retire in September 2024. [Anglican Church of Canada] Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, announced April 9 that she will step down from her role on Sept. 15, 2024. The canons of the Anglican Church of Canada require…

All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Russellville, Arkansas, hosted primitive camping spaces on its large property for the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Russellville was located on the eclipse’s path of totality. Photo: All Saints’ Episcopal Church/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians who witnessed the April 8 total solar eclipse’s totality shared their experiences on social…

About 160 Episcopalians and Anglican bishops, priests and deacons from across the African diaspora are gathered April 8-11, 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss the conditions affecting Afro-Anglican ministry and witness at the triennial International Black Clergy Conference. Photo: Sandye Wilson [Episcopal News Service] About 160 Episcopalians and Anglican bishops, priests and deacons from across…

[World Council of Churches] World Council of Churches general secretary the Rev. Jerry Pillay has held productive talks with the Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, and Anglican Communion leaders. Pillay engaged in constructive discussions during his visit to the archbishop’s residence in London on April 8. The dialogue continued at the offices of…

[Episcopal News Service] The denominational health insurance plans that cover Episcopal clergy and lay employees have a number of structural inequities built into their costs, an unintended consequences of the wide range of benefit options, the age of enrollees and state and regional differences in health care costs that have been found to be particularly…

[The Scottish Episcopal Church] Representatives from The Scottish Episcopal Church, alongside ecumenical partners the Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church, recently arrived in Jamaica to begin a pilgrimage during this Easter season. The intention of the ecumenical pilgrimage is to learn about the legacies of slavery and the part of churches in it. A…

The Rev. Bernie Lindley sorts bread for the food ministry at St. Timothy’s, Brookings, Oregon. That ministry can continue unrestricted after a court ruling found in favor of the church and the Episcopal Church in Western Oregon and against actions by the city to limit it. Photo: Courtesy Bernie Lindley [Episcopal News Service] A U.S….

[World Council of Churches] World Council of Churches general secretary the Rev. Jerry Pillay extended condolences to the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and those who lost loved ones and invited prayer and support for the people of Taiwan in the wake of the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Taiwan on April 3. The quake, which was…

[Diocese of Massachusetts] The Diocese of Massachusetts and friends and colleagues across The Episcopal Church are remembering and celebrating the life and witness of the Rev. Edward W. Rodman, who died peacefully, according to his family, on April 2, at home in Framingham, Mass. He was 81. Ed Rodman was known churchwide as a strategist,…