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Members of Christ Episcopal Church in Toms River, New Jersey, urge drivers to help the parish fight the mayor’s proposal to turn the church property into parkland. Photo: Courtesy of Denise Henry [Episcopal News Service] A New Jersey church was thrust into the national spotlight in recent months when town officials targeted the property for…

Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor, center left, and Taiwan Bishop Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang, center right, celebrate the Eucharist at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in San Gabriel, California. Photo: Diocese of Los Angeles [Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles]  A delegation from the Diocese of Taiwan is visiting the Diocese of Los Angeles through…

A portrait of Cardinal John Henry Newman made by Sir John Everett Millais in 1881. Photo: Courtesy of Creative Commons [Religion News Service] Pope Leo XIV named St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church on July 31, recognizing the lasting impact the 19th-century convert’s writings on conscience and the development of doctrine have had…

After a mass shooting on July 28, 2025, in New York’s Midtown Manhattan left five people dead, including the shooter, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church put up signs around its building offering support and pastoral care to the community. The church is located across the street from 345 Park Avenue, where the shooting occurred. Photo: Peter…

[Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem] The following statement was issued July 29 by the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches of Jerusalem. We, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, express our profound concern and unwavering condemnation following yet another violent assault that targeted the West Bank Christian town of Taybeh. Several vehicles were…

St. Jude’s Episcopal Church in Hawaiian Ocean View on Hawai’i’s Big Island permanently houses a medical van on its campus that’s operated by the Hawai’i Community Health Center system. Photo: St. Jude’s Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service] For the 3,800 or so residents of rural Hawai’ian Ocean View –  more commonly called Ocean View –…

[Episcopal News Service] Fifty churches throughout the Omaha-based Diocese of Nebraska are raising $25,000 this summer through Sept. 15 to erase $2.5 million in medical debt, according to a press release shared by the diocese. “As Christians, we are to aid those in need and do forgive not just sins, but debts as well,” the…

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe, in a July 25 statement signed jointly with the family of former Rochester Bishop Prince Singh, said that they had reached an agreement to resolve the family’s remaining concerns about the church’s handling of their allegations of domestic abuse against Singh. “While the terms of our agreement are…

The 82nd General Convention is scheduled for July 3-8, 2027, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona. Photo: Phoenix Convention Center [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops and House of Deputies will convene for six business days at the 82nd General Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, according to a church news release announcing…

Right: The Rt. Rev. Jeffery Rowthorn, who served as bishop suffragan in Connecticut from 1987 to 1993 and then as bishop of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe through 2001, right, and his wife, Anne Long Wheeler Rowthorn, left. Photo: Yale University Institute of Sacred Music [Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Jeffery Rowthorn,…