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[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican bishop of Goma has said people are “terrified in their homes” as fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo city continues to escalate. The Rt. Rev. Martin Gordon, who has recently evacuated Goma along with other peacekeepers, has shared “The Goma Call for Peace” urging the international community to…

[Church of England] The Rt. Rev. John Perumbalath, the bishop of Liverpool, England, retired on Jan. 30 in advance of a television network’s announcement that they would broadcast allegations of inappropriate behavior toward two women. He stated that the claims, made in 2023, and were found to be unsubstantiated. Here is the statement from Perumbalath:…

St. Michael’s Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Ministry at St. Michael’s, Brattleboro, Vermont, is seen assisting Afghans arriving in the United States in 2022. Photo: Lisa Sparrow [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s nearly nine-decade history of helping refugees resettle in the United States effectively will end next month, an early casualty of the new Trump administration’s…

Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor leads prayer at the start of the Jan. 30, 2024, “Prayer and Action” webinar showcasing how Episcopalians can help people who’ve been impacted by wildfires that have been burning since Jan. 7 throughout the Los Angeles area. Photo: Screenshot [Episcopal News Service] Church leaders from the Diocese of Los…

[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of Chicago has pledged support for immigrants as a “sanctuary diocese” since 2019. Now, with the Trump administration pursuing a new crackdown on immigration, Episcopalians in northern Illinois are living out that spirit of “sanctuary” in ways as diverse as their diocese. Some congregations in the diocese’s namesake city are…

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe will be ceremonially seated at Washington National Cathedral on Feb. 2 during the cathedral’s main Sunday Eucharist, at which Rowe also will preach. The 11:15 a.m. Eastern service will be livestreamed on the cathedral’s YouTube channel. The liturgy for the service is contained in the church’s Book of…

Hive Bakery in Flower Mound, Texas, began selling cookies made with the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde’s image after the Washington Bishop pleaded with President Donald Trump to show mercy to “the people in our country who are scared now” – specifically LGBTQ+ people and immigrants in her Jan. 21 sermon during the Service of Prayer…

[World Council of Churches] In an address before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Jan. 27, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew spoke of how religion can provide a unique perspective in the objective to eradicate poverty and hunger, to address fundamentalism and racism, and to advance tolerance and dialogue. “Churches and religious…

[Anglican Taonga] There’s a lot of talk about connecting with communities in mission, and Ross McQueen, a retired farmer in the Canterbury region of New Zealand,  is exactly the kind of person our church could overlook if “connecting with communities” got left out of our plans. Back in 1976 when Ross McQueen was a young farmer…

St. David’s Episcopal Church in Southfield, Michigan, hosted a “Guns and Arts” community buyback event in June 2024. The unwanted guns that were collected were cut and transformed into jewelry and pieces of art. Michigan Bishop Bonnie Perry blessed the saws before they destroyed the firearms. Photo: Todd Nissen [Episcopal News Service] After continuously advocating…