David Paulsen

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[Episcopal News Service] An Episcopal church in Annapolis, Maryland, has dedicated a new Garden of Peace and Remembrance in the congregation’s historic cemetery, paying tribute to ancestors, including the enslaved, whose identities have been lost to history. St. Anne’s Episcopal Church was founded in 1692, and its 17-acre cemetery dates to 1793.

2 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church, through its General Convention resolutions, has long supported government programs that help alleviate economic inequality and ensure low-income individuals and families have access to food, shelter and health care. “Dioceses, parishes and faithful Episcopalians are called to advocate changes in public policy to help poor and hungry people,” General Convention said in one of those resolutions, from 2015.

2 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe defended The Episcopal Church’s decision to end its federal contract rather than help the Trump administration resettle white South Africans in the United States, saying in a webinar that churches must reject the “moral compromise” that the administration has expected of other American institutions. “I think the institutional resistance is now more important than ever,” Rowe said in the May 20 webinar hosted by Religion News Service.

2 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] Salvadoran police have detained a lawyer who leads the anti-corruption unit of Cristosal, an Episcopal-affiliated organization committed to defending human rights and promoting democratic rule of law in Central America. The lawyer, Ruth López, was taken into custody around 11 p.m. May 18 by agents of the National Civil Police.

2 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] Church leaders at an Episcopal congregation in suburban Chicago, Illinois, and families with children in the church’s day care program are rallying together after a pickup truck crashed through a wall of the church building on May 16, injuring at least three children who were in a classroom at the time. The afternoon crash occurred at Church of the Transfiguration in Palos Park, a southwest suburb located about 25 miles from downtown Chicago.