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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…

[Church in Wales] The Cross of Wales, which led the procession in King Charles III’s coronation at Westminster Abbey last year, officially will be received Dec. 1 at the cathedral in Bangor during the launch of a year of celebrations marking the 1,500th anniversary of Wales’ oldest city. The specially commissioned processional cross, containing a…

[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…

For 21 years, garden manager Becky Smith and dozens of volunteers have helped Our Saviour Community Garden in Dallas, Texas, produce more than 120,000 pounds of produce to feed hungry people. Photo: Our Saviour Community Garden [Episcopal News Service] Since 2003, Our Saviour Community Garden, located on the grounds of the Church of Our Saviour…

[World Council of Churches] In a statement entitled “Yearning for Just Peace in Europe,” the World Council of Churches Executive Committee recalled with heavy hearts that the war in Ukraine has now passed 1,000 days. “Each of those days has been marked by the blood of so many civilians as well as combatants killed and maimed, the…

[Lambeth Palace] Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the Anglican archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Rev. Hosam E. Naoum, have issued a joint Advent appeal for Anglicans to pray for Palestinian Christians and support the work of the Diocese of Jerusalem. In a pastoral letter, the archbishops urge Anglicans around the world to support the…

[Anglican Journal] A ceasefire and the free passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza are urgently needed to halt a genocide in progress, an official with the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem says. The diocese runs the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, which is the only hospital still functioning in northern Gaza. Sawsan Aranki-Batato, programs development officer for the…

[Anglican Journal] The Indigenous Anglican church is beginning work on mental health ministries amid a national epidemic of suicides and overdoses in Indigenous communities, Archdeacon Rosalyn Elm, the church’s Indigenous ministries coordinator, told the Council of General Synod in early November.   The programs, which are still in the early stages, are aimed at bolstering…

[Episcopal News Service] A priest in the Diocese of Dallas who, until recently, served as chair of the Nashotah House Theological Seminary’s board of directors, has been placed on administrative leave from his parish duties to face a disciplinary case alleging mismanagement of parish finances and fraud. The Rev. Edward Monk, rector of St. John’s…