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Diocese of Arizona

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Episcopal News Service

  • [Episcopal News Service] This weekend, St. Peter’s Episcopal Parish, a historically Japanese church in Seattle, Washington, will commemorate the 83rd anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order to authorize the incarceration of Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. 2025 also marks 80 years since the camps closed. “So much intergenerational trauma […]
  • [Episcopal News Service] Several resolutions passed in June 2024 by the 81st General Convention speak to current events in Gaza, where Israeli hostages are being freed as part of a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel and where Palestinians are returning to Gaza communities that were leveled by Israeli bombardment during the 15-month war. The Episcopal […]
  • [Diocese of Alabama] The Rt. Rev. Glenda Curry, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, has announced her intention to retire later this year when she turns 72, the mandatory retirement age for Episcopal clergy. Curry made the announcement and called for the election of a new bishop last weekend during the opening session of […]
  • [Episcopal News Service] Jayne and Nick Kinney are sometimes a bit late for Sunday services at St. Martin’s by the Lake in Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota. When they are, fellow parishioners can tell it’s because Nick spent the previous evening in the ring and still sports remnants of the colorful, glittery makeup he wears as his […]
  • [World Council of Churches] World Council of Churches general secretary the Rev. Jerry Pillay has described the proposal of President Donald Trump as “tantamount to proposing full-scale ethnic cleansing and neo-colonization of the homeland of the 2 million Palestinians of Gaza.” Pillay noted that the proposal violates every applicable principle of international humanitarian and human […]
  • [Church in Wales] The Church in Wales is preparing to revisit its stance on same-sex blessings as the time-limited provision introduced in October 2021 nears its expiration in September 2026. In a message to members, the archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev. Andrew John, has called for a period of prayerful discernment and open dialogue […]

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