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In August 2022, water protectors on Kauai came together along a roadside and held signs calling for the Red Hill storage facility’s closure to get the attention of Vice President Kamala Harris as she arrived for vacation in August 2022. Photo: Will Sato [Episcopal News Service] The Social Justice & U.S. Policy committees are considering…

[Religion News Service] The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures April 25 to restructure the worldwide denomination to give each region greater equity in tailoring church life to its own customs and traditions. The primary measure, voted on as the UMC General Conference met at the Charlotte Convention Center…

[Office the Archbishop of Canterbury] The Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, met and prayed with Gaza’s only Roman Catholic parish priest, the Rev. Gabriel Romanelli, at Lambeth Palace on April 23. Romanelli is the priest of the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City. He was in Bethlehem buying medicine when Hamas…

[Episcopal News Service] The House of Deputies’ Young Adult Caucus has called on the secretary of General Convention to extend the application deadline for deputies interested in running for president or vice president, though with the 81st General Convention less than two months away, the window for new applications appears to have closed. The request…

[The Church of England] Details of the proposed financial award framework for the Church of England’s national Redress Scheme for survivors and victims of church-related abuse have been published. If approved through the Church of England’s legislative processes, the framework would result in individual awards of between about $6,200 and more than $825,000 in rare…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches led a delegation that visited Sudan April 18-22. In addition to the WCC, the ecumenical group included All Africa Conference of Churches, ACT Alliance, Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa Global Ministries, Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in the Great Lakes and Horn…

For the first time since its establishment in 1135, the Children of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, based at St. James’s Palace in London, England, made its inaugural visit to the United States in 2024. While there, the Chapel Royal choristers joined the St. Thomas Choir School choristers in New York City for special performances on…

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church has hired a faith-based organizer from the Diocese of Olympia to be the church’s first gender justice staff officer, ending a nearly two-year process that originated in a 2022 resolution approved by the 80th General Convention. Aaron Scott, with nearly two decades of experience as an organizer from the…

Volunteers at Good Shepherd Mission in Fort Defiance, Arizona, fill boxes of food for delivery to Navajo Nation residents as part of a feeding ministry of the Episcopal Church in Navajoland in November 2021. Photo: Leon Sampson [Episcopal News Service] Navajo Episcopalians are asking The Episcopal Church to elevate their area mission, known as Navajoland,…

[Anglican Communion News Service] Senior archbishops, presiding bishops and moderators of the churches of the Anglican Communion will meet in Rome for the 2024 Primates’ Meeting April 29-May 3. Conceived as a pilgrimage, they will pray and study Scripture together, visit holy sites in Rome, and reflect together about the mission and witness of the church…