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The Anglican pilgrimage to the Missionary Diocese of Navajoland in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico took place Aug. 1-9, 2025. Photo: Diocese of Pennsylvania/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Nearly three dozen Anglicans worldwide have returned home from a nine-day pilgrimage to the Missionary Diocese of Navajoland with a deeper knowledge and appreciation of Diné culture and…

[Church of Ireland] Church of Ireland Archbishop Michael Jackson issued a statement on Aug. 8 in the wake of a series of attacks on members of Ireland’s Indian community, bringing fear to the many immigrants who make up that community. Jackson also is chair of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum. His full statement follows. Following…

Former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preached during the Aug. 9, 2025, pilgrimage in Hayneville, Alabama, honoring 60 years since Jonathan Daniels was killed on Aug. 20, 1965, while trying to protect a Black teenager from gunfire during the Civil Rights Movement. Daniels was a 26-year-old white seminarian at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts….

Former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry (left) joins Mississippi Bishop Dorothy Wells in an Aug. 10 discussion about the impact of the death of Emmett Till, 70 years after his murder. Photo: YouTube screenshot [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi marked 70 years since the murder of Emmett Till with two weekend events at…

[Anglican Communon News Service] The bishop of Lesotho, the Rt. Rev. Joseph Aba Nicanor, has sent a letter to the presidents of Uganda and South Sudan following border conflicts on July 28, in which eight people died. As reported in Anglican News, the incident took place in an area of shared borders in the Nyaingamuda area,…

[Episcopal News Service] The General Theological Seminary, the historic Episcopal seminary in New York City, announced Aug. 11 that it had received state approval to lease its Chelsea neighborhood campus to Vanderbilt University. The 99-year lease to Vanderbilt, which is based in Nashville, Tennessee, was first announced in September 2024 as part of General Theological…

[Anglican Communion News Service] The bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Kajo Keji has made an appeal for humanitarian intervention following surprise attacks between South Sudanese and Ugandan soldiers on July 28 in South Sudan’s Kajo Keji county. The incident took place on shared borders in the Nyaingamuda area, Bori Boma of Kangapo II Payam,…

Becky Hope while attending a retreat for digital congregants of Good Shepherd in New York City. Hope also attends Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in person in Portland, Oregon. Photo: Alex Scott/RNS [Religion News Service] After Becky Hope left the evangelical church she had been attending in Portland, Oregon, four years ago, she began watching online services…

During his time in Alabama, Jonathan Daniels lived with the West family in Selma. The family, Alice West has said, kept their doors open to so-called “outside agitators” working in the civil rights movement. Daniels became a part of her family, she said. Photo: Archives of The Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service — Dyer, Indiana]…

[Episcopal News Service] A third Episcopalian in the Diocese of New York was arrested and detained by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement this week at Federal Plaza in Manhattan. The unnamed Episcopalian is a parishioner of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Midtown Manhattan. He was detained while going to a routine asylum…