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The Rev. Cayce Ramey preaches in October 2021 during one of the joint worship services organized by All Saints Episcopal Church and other members of the Potomac Episcopal Community in and around Alexandria, Virginia. Photo: Potomac Episcopal Community, via YouTube [Episcopal News Service] A white Virginia priest has demanded The Episcopal Church atone for its…

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. Photo: Roger Harris/© House of Lords [Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will complete his official duties by the Feast of the Epiphany – Jan. 6, 2025 – according to a Nov. 20 statement from Lambeth Palace. Welby “intends very little public-facing activity between now and Epiphany but…

[Church of England] With a tower dating back almost to the Norman conquest and the majority of the church standing since the 13th century, a renovation project at All Saints, Winterton in the Diocese of Lincoln was going to be a major project. The National Lottery Heritage Fund stepped in twice to help the church…

A crowd gathered in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, for a Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil on Nov. 20, 2022. The crowd addressed the previous night’s mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where five people were murdered and 25 others were injured. Photo: Aimee Dilger/AP [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal churches nationwide are…

[The Church in Wales] Bishops of the Church in Wales have joined other Welsh faith leaders in a statement against a proposed assisted dying bill that is being debated in Parliament. If passed, the legislation would allow doctors to provide lethal drugs to individuals with incurable illnesses, effectively legalizing physician-assisted suicide. The statement focuses on the…

[Church of England] Nearly $58 million has been earmarked by the Church of England for work to spread the Christian faith across the country, including a program to renew and revitalize parishes, new congregations in churches, and church and school partnerships. The Strategic Mission and Ministry Investment Board awarded grants to the Dioceses of Southwell…

[Episcopal News Service] East Carolina Bishop Rob Skirving announced Nov. 16 that he intends to step down in 2026, and he called for election of his successor. Skirving, who made the announcement at an online Special Budget Convention and in a letter to the diocese, said he will have served in ordained ministry for 40…

[Episcopal News Service] Easton Bishop Santosh Marray announced in a Nov. 15 letter to his Maryland diocese that he plans to retire in 2026, setting in motion the process for calling his successor. Marray was elected bishop in 2016 of Easton. At that time, he was serving as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of…

[Episcopal News Service] There is a largely unspoken tension between parents and their adult children in many Episcopal families. It’s not about politics or even theology, at least directly. It’s about the point of going to church. “And it’s not because the church abused them in some way, but that their cohorts don’t seem to…

[Melbourne Anglican] The Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Australia, has joined calls for the 1915–1923 Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides to be recognized by the Victoria government. More than 3 million Armenian, Assyrian/Syriac and Greek Orthodox Christians suffered from the systematic mass murder, expulsion and forced conversion beginning on April, 24, 1915. In a letter to the…