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Diocese of Arizona
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Episcopal News Service
- [Episcopal News Service – Toms River, New Jersey] Christ Episcopal Church will have to wait a bit longer for a final decision on its overnight shelter proposal after pointed and divided debate took up the entire May 22 zoning board meeting in this Jersey Shore town. More than 40 people spoke to the Toms River […]
- [Episcopal News Service] Washington Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, dean of Washington National Cathedral, issued a joint statement May 22 offering condolences to the Jewish community and to the families and friends of the two Israeli Embassy staff members who were shot and killed on May 21 outside the […]
- [Episcopal News Service] The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked, 4-4, on May 22 in the case of a Roman Catholic school seeking to receive public funding, a decision that effectively blocked Oklahoma from creating what could have become the nation’s first religious charter school. The outcome at the court was supported by Episcopal leaders, including the […]
- [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 […]
- [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church in Wyoming hosted a three-day listening pilgrimage to the Wind River Indian Reservation, which is shared by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. The pilgrimage was a continuation of the diocese’s efforts to recognize and reconcile its involvement in federal and church policies that have historically harmed the […]
Anglican News Service
- The Rt Revd Anthony Poggo, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, has made a visit to the Episcopal/Anglican Diocese of Egypt, one of the four dioceses in the Province of Alexandria.
- Five Anglican Primates of the Anglican Communion have attended an audience with Pope Leo XIV today, and heard his deep commitment to Church unity.
- An Anglican delegation have attended the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in St Peter’s Square in Rome.
- Anglican Communion representatives will attend the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV.
- The Central Members and Anglican Communion representatives of the Canterbury Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) have today been announced. This commission works prayerfully and collaboratively to discern and nominate the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Anglican churches have shared messages of goodwill as they welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV.