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The Rev. Emily Weswa was one of the first five priests in the Diocese of Butere in the Anglican Church of Kenya to receive a Ayrshire heifer through the dairy cow partnership between the Diocese of Butere and the Boise-based Episcopal Diocese of Idaho. Weswa earns an income selling the cow’s milk. Photo: Diocese of…

Sister Superior Monica Clare, center, and the Community of St. John Baptist have welcomed two new postulants to the century-old convent building in Mendham, New Jersey. Niambi Mercado, left, and Diana Baudelaire, right, still face years of discernment before becoming eligible to take lifetime vows. Photo: Kirk Petersen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] The Community…

[Anglican Focus] Matthew Flinders Anglican College has been awarded The Educator Australia’s 5-Star Sustainable Programs Award 2024 for being “a shining example of effective sustainability education in action.” The school includes students in primary and secondary grades. Flinders is one of just six schools in Queensland, and one of 25 schools across Australia, to receive a 5-Star Sustainable…

[World Council of Churches] In a statement released on Nov. 22, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem encouraged their congregations and people during the Advent and Christmas seasons “to fully commemorate the approach and arrival of Christ’s birth by giving public signs of Christian hope.” They added that this should be done “in…

St. Anna’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosts a World AIDS Day Mass and breakfast annually in collaboration with CrescentCare, a local nonprofit health care agency. Photo: Courtesy of Ben Nobles [Episcopal News Service] When Gabriel Gutierrez was a young adult in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the 1980s, hearing about a friend or acquaintance…

[World Council of Churches] The Ecumenical Water Network Africa, in collaboration with the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Water Network and Norwegian Church Aid, hosted a hybrid workshop in Abuja, Nigeria, to mark World Toilet Day 2024. The event, themed “Toilets — A Place for Peace,” highlighted sanitation’s vital role in promoting health, dignity and…

[Religion News Service — Washington, D.C.] Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man elected to be an Episcopal bishop in 2003, preaching Nov. 24 at the Washington National Cathedral on Christ the King Sunday, took the opportunity to heap praise on a new LGBTQ+ trailblazer: U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware, the first openly transgender…

Al Ahli Arab Hospital has been ministering as a Christian witness in Gaza City since 1882. The institution was founded by the Church of England’s Church Mission Society and was later run as a medical mission by the Southern Baptist Conference from 1954 to 1982. It then returned to the Anglican Church. Photo: Mary Frances…

The Rev. Cayce Ramey speaks Nov. 25 during online oral arguments before the churchwide Court of Review. Behind him is an image of Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, where Ramey visited in 2017 on a diocesan trip that, he says, inspired much of his current racial justice work. [Episcopal News Service] The churchwide Court of…

[World Council of Churches] The executive committee of the World Council of Churches has issued a statement calling for prayer on behalf of the people of Haiti, saying in part, “We pray for God’s compassion for the people of this troubled land, and an answer to their cries.” The committee wrote, “In 2024, Haiti has faced…