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1 month ago | 
julieroys.com | Shireen Korkzan |Julie Roys
“Audrey’s Children,” a feature-length biopic about Dr. Audrey Evans, a pioneering British American pediatric oncologist and a devout Episcopalian who co-founded the first Ronald McDonald House with members of the Philadelphia Eagles and McDonald’s, will have a limited theatrical release beginning March 28.
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2 months ago | 
julieroys.com | Shireen Korkzan |Julie Roys
The Rev. Grace Kim, a chaplain and licensed counselor serving in the U.S. Army, works 24/7, 365 days a year. She wakes up every day at 5:30 a.m. for physical training and keeps formal office hours from 9 to 5 p.m., but she’s always available for counseling whenever a fellow soldier needs it. Her weekends are spent preparing for and providing Sunday morning worship services for 20-60 service members and their families. “For me, number one is the needs of the Army. Number two, the needs of the Army.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan
[Episcopal News Service] One week ahead of Inauguration Day, over 400 Episcopalians gathered live via Zoom to learn about the current U.S. legislative environment and what they can do to protect and support transgender and nonbinary people over the next four years.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians across the United States are committing to protecting and supporting immigrants after President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated Jan. 20, following a campaign in which Trump amplified anti-immigrant rhetoric, vowed to deport millions of immigrants and embraced false and dehumanizing stereotypes about immigrant communities.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan
[Episcopal News Service] Every year during the autumn and winter months, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, offers a monthly Celtic worship service for members of the community to pray in a nature-based and meditative setting. “It’s a beautiful and very peaceful service that brings the congregation into the service in a very physical way,” Susan Baldwin, ministry leader for St. Andrew’s altar guild.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan
[Episcopal News Service] St. Peter’s-San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem, Massachusetts, will honor former President Jimmy Carter today by tolling the United States’ oldest church bell 100 times at 5:20 p.m. Eastern as the late president’s remains are laid to rest at his home in Plains, Georgia. St. Peter’s, Salem’s oldest Anglican church founded in 1733, has tolled its historic bell observing the death of every U.S. president since the nation was founded in 1776.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan
[Episcopal News Service] In rural Eureka, a small town nine miles south of the U.S.-Canada border in northwest Montana’s Tobacco Valley region, St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church’s wood bank ministry helps keep families warm every winter. “In the very beginning, we didn’t know what was ahead at all. …St. Michael is a tiny church,” the Rev. Pattiann Bennett, the church’s retired rector who still leads the wood bank ministry, told Episcopal News Service.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan
[Episcopal News Service] Over 20,000 people have been killed and at least 11 million people have been displaced since the latest Sudanese civil war broke out in 2023. Despite the United Nations and other international agencies declaring the conflict one of the worst ongoing humanitarian crises worldwide, it has largely been overshadowed by other wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan
[Episcopal News Service] Many Episcopal congregations nationwide are observing the 2024 Advent season with musical and family-favorite festivities, including Lessons and Carols, a beloved Anglican tradition. Many include livestream options. Lessons and Carols — also known as Nine Lessons and Carols, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, and the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols — is an Anglican worship service traditionally celebrated on or around Christmas Eve.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan
[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of New York’s Task Force on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault observed the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” by hosting a virtual conversation addressing issues surrounding rape and sexual violence. The annual United Nations campaign aimed at the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls began on Nov. 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and runs through Dec.
