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1 week ago | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson
[Episcopal News Service] Last year, St. Paul’s Within the Walls made history as the first church in Italy to march in Roma Pride. This year, Episcopalians joined with other Christians in Rome, in the spirit of The Episcopal Church’s welcome of LGBTQ+ full inclusion, with the hope of making a greater impact.
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2 weeks ago | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe and Bishop Christian Kopp, head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, signed the Augsburg Agreement on June 7 following a Pentecost-eve Eucharist at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Munich, Germany.
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1 month ago | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson
[Episcopal News Service – Rome, Italy] For decades, the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center has provided a space for refugees and migrants arriving here in Rome. Today, it’s the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe’s largest refugee assistance program, and one that serves as a model for churches across the continent.
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1 month ago | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe joined a 19-member Anglican delegation and tens of thousands of people who on May 18 attended Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square. Throughout the service, the pope returned to “unity,” a call he has stressed since his election. His “first great desire,” he said, was for a united church.
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1 month ago | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson
[Episcopal News Service] Earlier this year, the Rev. Christopher Easthill, rector of St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican-Episcopal Church in Wiesbaden, Germany, was elected chair of the Council of Churches in Germany, becoming the first Episcopal priest to hold that position. Founded in 1948 and reconstituted in 1992 following Germany’s reunification, the association represents 25 churches and denominations countrywide.
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1 month ago | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson
[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Anthony Ball was commissioned director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, Italy, during a midday May 6 Eucharist attended by some 50 ecumenical partners and friends in the center’s Chapel of St. Augustine of Canterbury. “Today, in remarkable and historic circumstances, we welcome enthusiastically and liturgically our new director, Bishop Anthony Ball,” said the Rt. Rev.
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2 months ago | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson
[Episcopal News Service] Pope Francis, who led the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.3 billion members worldwide since 2013, died the morning of April 21 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. He was 88. A day earlier, from a balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica, seated in a wheelchair, Francis blessed a crowd of tens of thousands gathered in the square to celebrate Easter. He spent Holy Thursday with inmates at a Rome prison, one he’d previously visited to perform the washing of the feet.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson |William Miller |April Love-Fordham
[Episcopal News Service] Cristosal, an Episcopal-affiliated human rights organization committed to defending human rights and promoting democratic rule of law in Central America, was forced last week to cut its staff and terminate its humanitarian assistance program, in response to the U.S. foreign aid freeze. Cristosal provided protection and reintegration services to 1,600 internally displaced people through its humanitarian aid program.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
auburnpub.com | Lynette Wilson
Growing up in Auburn, there were certain families that everyone knew and admired. The Buschman family is undoubtedly one of the best. I grew up alongside Julie, Steve's sister, but it wasn’t until my 20s that I had the pleasure of meeting Steve and several of his siblings. If you were fortunate enough to know their mother, you would understand why this family is infused with such a wonderful disposition.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson |Episcopal Relief
[Episcopal News Service] Georgians and their supporters from All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York, came together on Sept. 29 to celebrate the life of Kesaria Abramidze, a well-known transgender woman who was stabbed to death last week in her apartment in Tbilisi, Georgia. “This young woman was my friend,” David Schubladze told Episcopal News Service. Schubladze, 38, was a long-time LGBTQ+ activist in the former Soviet Republic who came to the U.S. in 2015 as an asylum-seeker.
