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[Episcopal News Service] In-person attendance has been down significantly this year at the two Sunday services, one in Spanish and the other bilingual, at Saint Teresa de Avila Episcopal Church on the Southwest Side of Chicago, Illinois. The congregation’s leaders can spell the reason with three letters: ICE. Saint Theresa de Avila’s mostly Latino worshippers…

Church of the Redeemer’s rector, the Rev. Charleston Wilson, said the Culverhouse Benevolence Fund represents the church in action. [Church of the Redeemer — Sarasota, Florida] Church of the Redeemer in downtown Sarasota has partnered with parishioner Hugh Culverhouse Jr. to establish the Culverhouse Benevolence Fund to help those in the parish and wider Sarasota community…

Noted primatologist Jane Goodall, who died Oct. 1, will be remembered at a Nov. 12 funeral service at Washington National Cathedral. Photo: Jane Goodall Institute [Episcopal News Service] Jane Goodall, primatologist, ethologist and conservationist, will be remembered Nov. 12 at a funeral service at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The invitation-only service will be…

Southern Ohio Bishop Kristin Uffelman White, left, and Indianapolis Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows pose for a selfie at the 2025 New York Marathon on Nov. 2. Photo: Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows [Episcopal News Service] Nov. 2 was a day of two significant and related “firsts” for Indianapolis Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows. It marked the first time in 37 years…

[Episcopal News Service]The Rt. Rev. Herbert Alcorn Donovan, Jr., who as bishop of Arkansas from 1980 to 1993, and later served other dioceses and parishes, died Nov. 2 in Colorado. He was 94. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, he was ordained deacon and priest in 1957. He joined the…

Food distributions like this one in New York City, as well as the food ministries of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, are finding ways to help people impacted by the loss of SNAP benefits starting Nov. 1. Partial SNAP payments are due to resume, but the date for that is uncertain. Photo:…

Volunteers with Disarmory Ministries take parts of relinquished and destroyed guns and turn them into art. Photo: Diocese of Michigan [Diocese of Michigan] Episcopalians with Disarmory Ministries have been running gun destruction events in southeast Michigan for six months, and they have their process down. But when a woman recently drove up with a loaded…

,[Church of England] The lead bishops on safeguarding for the Church of England, Stepney Bishop Joanne Grenfell and Tewkesbury Bishop Robert Springett, have issued a statement a year after the publication of the Makin Report, acknowledging the harm caused by the abuses committed by John Smyth and failures in the church’s response once that abuse…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba, archbishop of Southern Africa, joined a range of discussions in Rome last week on how religious communities can help initiate and promote peace-making efforts. First was an “International Meeting for Peace: Religions and Cultures in Dialogue” with the theme “Daring Peace,” which he attended at the invitation…

[Episocopal Diocese of Texas] The Diocese of Texas expresses deep concern and calls for action following the detention of one of its priests, a legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The priest, who has lived and worked lawfully in Texas, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement…