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The Rev. Angela Maria Cortiñas [The Episcopal Diocese of West Texas] The Episcopal Diocese of West Texas has elected the Rev. Angela Maria Cortiñas as its next bishop suffragan. Cortiñas currently serves as associate rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. She will be consecrated and installed as the seventh bishop suffragan of West…

[Churches for Middle East Peace] Twenty top Christian leaders, including Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, have issued a letter dated Oct. 15 to both Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s campaigns to express a shared deep concern regarding the ongoing injustice and violations of human rights in Israel/Palestine. The leaders write, “Even as our primary focus for…

Holy Cross Church in Sugar Land, Texas, has hosted a pumpkin patch since 2007, an event that brings in people from across the community for activities as well as pumpkins. Photo: Facebook [Episcopal News Service] More than two dozen Episcopal churches, large and small, across the United States are hosting pumpkin patches in October. Pumpkins…

A group gathers to protest Citigroup at the investment group’s headquarters on Aug. 1, 2024, in New York City. (Diego Henriquez, courtesy of GreenFaith) [Religion News Service] In mid-September, Val Smith, chief sustainability officer at Citigroup, one of the United States’ Big Four of banking, met with four religious environmental activists to discuss the company’s record…

Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Episcopal Church in Philadelphia is Pennsylvania’s oldest church and oldest surviving brick building. Its graveyard has remained in operation since it began receiving burials around 1677. Today, the the remains of an estimated 5,000 people are interred there, but only about 1,000 of them are on record. Photo: Gloria Dei (Old…

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches welcomed the news that the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization of survivors of the nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The organization was given this award for their work to call for a world without nuclear…

[The Church in Wales] The crisis facing the nation’s rivers is the focus of a national summit hosted by the Church in Wales Nov. 7-8. More than 70 people from across the United Kingdom, including scientists, farmers, environmentalists and water industry representatives, will come together to discuss the challenges facing watercourses in Wales and to look…

[Episcopal News Service] Northern Arapaho, Eastern Shoshone and Episcopal leaders in Wyoming celebrated the Oct. 14 return of some 200 tribal items that had been in the diocese’s possession for about 80 years. The 200 or so items that were returned to the Wind River Reservation include a variety of handmade goods, such as these…

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Marc Andrus, who retired from leading the Diocese of California in July 2024, has been restricted in his ordained ministry “due to a credible allegation of an inappropriate relationship with an adult,” The Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs said in an Oct. 15 news release revealing the pending disciplinary case…

[The Melbourne Anglican] Melbourne Anglicans have resolved to continue toward making the church safe and welcoming for First Peoples, after synod endorsed a motion supporting ongoing efforts towards reconciliation. The motion called on Anglicans to engage in truth-telling, repentance and justice alongside First Peoples and aim for more just and respectful relationships with them. Synod celebrated…