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The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone. The reservation spans more than 2 million acres. Photo: Reuters [Episcopal News Service – Casper, Wyoming] Lyle Valdez is junior warden at Our Father’s House, a congregation of Northern Arapaho Episcopalians on the Wind River Reservation just southeast of Yellowstone National…

[World Council of Churches] The fate of Armenian detainees in Azerbaijan was the focus of an Oct. 1 side event at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva featuring leading advocates and human rights lawyers representing the detainees. A year since the Armenian population was forced to leave Nagorno-Karabakh, at least 23 ethnic Armenians…

Micah Roldan, a new member of Hope Episcopal Church, Manheim, Pennsylvania, builds a birdhouse as part of the church’s creation care ministry. Photo: Hope Church [Episcopal News Service] Hope Episcopal Church in Manheim, Pennsylvania, has received a $46,000 grant that will help it clean up water runoff on its property that eventually feeds into Chesapeake…

[The Melbourne Anglican] A west Melbourne church has seen growth in attendance numbers over the past 16 years in response to efforts to revitalize it, including introducing new ministries. St. James’ Old Cathedral has grown from 15 people and few if any young people at Sunday services to 80 worshippers, and a strong youth group, since…

[World Council of Churches] At a time when global crises risk diverting attention from critical health issues, the annual Communities of Faith Breakfast Sept. 26 at the Yale Club of New York City alongside the United Nations General Assembly reaffirmed the need to prioritize children in the global fight against HIV. Co-hosted by the U.S….

[Anglican Communion News Service] The secretary general of the Anglican Communion, the Rt. Rev. Anthony Poggo, visited the Anglican Church of Southern Africa as a guest at meetings of their Synod of Bishops and their Provincial Synod. The meetings took place Sept. 3-27, hosted by the Diocese of the Highveld. Topics discussed by the Synod…

On Sept. 29, All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York, celebrated the life of Kesaria Abramidze, a well-known Georgian transgender activist who was murdered in her home on Sept. 18. Photo: Lynette Wilson/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] Georgians and their supporters from All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York, came together on…

[Scottish Episcopal Church] The primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Mark Strange, joined other faith leaders at a celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment  of the Scottish Parliament. The event took place on Sept. 28 and included King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Strange said he met with Imam Sayed…

A man walks near a flooded area of Asheville, North Carolina, near the Swannanoa River, on Sept. 27. Photo:Erik Verduzco/AP [Episcopal News Service] As Hurricane Helene, a powerful Category 4 storm with winds of up to 140 miles per hour, moved from the Big Bend region of the Florida Panhandle late on Sept. 26 into…

Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Presiding Bishop Michael Curry prepare to process into St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Caspert, Wyoming, for a Sept. 28 Holy Eucharist. Photo: Genie Osburn/Episcopal Church in Wyoming [Episcopal News Service – Casper, Wyoming] The afternoon crowd had swelled to more than 200 in the hotel ballroom here, all eager to…