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[Episcopal News Service] The Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice, one of The Episcopal Church’s most anticipated racial healing initiatives in recent years, is beginning to take shape as it names new board members and prepares to hire its first staff director. Episcopal leaders have spent the past four years envisioning, creating and activating the…

[Episcopal News Service] The Jan. 7 killing of a Minnesota woman by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has sparked outrage in the state and beyond, with local authorities calling on the Trump administration to end its enforcement activities in and around Minneapolis. Witness video of the incident shows the woman, later identified as 37-year-old Renee…

Cypress House Bakery, a nonprofit based in a building attached to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a training program that will teach formerly incarcerated people baking and culinary skills. Here, the program’s operations manager, Brian Goble, far right, reviews kitchen renovation plans with architects and construction managers, including the Rev. Susan…

The new organ at Church of the Epiphany, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York. Photo: Adelle M. Banks/RNS [Religion News Service] The organ arrived from Utah on a warm August morning. Greeted by holy water, incense and slide whistles, it came in a 53-foot-long truck that was double-parked on…

Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, “chalks the door” after worship services on the Sunday closest to Epiphany as part of its annual celebration of the feast day. Photo: Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, via Facebook [Episcopal News Service] If you see the initials “C + M + B” marked in chalk above the door…

[Religion News Service] A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a prominent group defending the separation of church and state can’t take an active role in a case involving political endorsements during sermons. Americans United for Separation of Church and State had asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for permission to…

[World Council of Churches] Bishop Daniel Qampicha Wario of the Anglican Diocese of Marsabit in Kenya said urgent humanitarian support was needed, as the usual rains have failed, leaving the people without water and food, and livestock without pasture. According to the bishop, there have occasionally been some small showers, but these were not sufficient to…

[Diocese of Western Massachusetts] A new emergency winter shelter at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Northampton, Massachusetts, will provide a warm place to sleep for some residents this winter. “This project is a Jesus project,” the church’s rector, the Rev. Anna Woofenden, said. “We are called to see the image of God in each and every…

Supporters of Venezuelan leader Nicholás Maduro gather Jan. 24 in Caracas, Venezuela’s city center to protest after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the Venezuelan president had been captured and flown out of the country. Many Venezuelans are also celebrating Maduro’s removal from office. Photo: Jeampier Arguinzones/AP [Episcopal News Service] Following last weekend’s U.S. military…

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal camp communities in the dioceses of Alabama and Southwest Florida have begun this year in mourning as they offer support to an Episcopal camp employee whose 4-year-old son disappeared last week and later was found dead. The boy, Johnathan Everet Boley, was last seen alive walking into some woods with his…