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Sacred Circle’s August meeting to build framework of emergent Canadian Indigenous church

1 week ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | Sean Frankling

[Anglican Church of Canada] Sacred Circle, the main governing body of the Indigenous Anglican church, will continue to give shape to the emerging self-governing institution when it meets Aug. 5-10 in Calgary, Alberta.
Maryland church cemetery’s memorial garden honors ancestors ‘known only to God’

1 week ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[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.
Episcopal Church raises alarm at GOP fiscal plan’s potential to harm low-income Americans

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.
Presiding bishop defends decision not to resettle Afrikaners, calls church a ‘bulwark against injustice’

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.
Presiding bishop visits Rome’s refugee center, a model for Episcopal churches across Europe, US

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.
Salvadoran police arrest lawyer who leads Episcopal-affiliated organization’s anti-corruption unit

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.
Pickup truck crashes into suburban Chicago church, injuring day care children inside

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.
Pope Leo XIV repeats call for ‘unity’; presiding bishop joins inauguration’s Anglican delegation

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.
Southern Africa archbishop thanks Episcopal Church for opposing Trump’s selective refugee resettlement

3 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church released a letter May 15 from Southern Africa Archbishop Thabo Makgoba thanking the U.S.-based church for declining the Trump administration’s request to help resettle white South Africans in the United States – a policy that Makgoba said is based on false assumptions about his country.
Q&A: Christopher Easthill, first Episcopal priest to chair German Council of Churches

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.