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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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