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US Episcopalians step up anti-racism fight

In the months following General Convention, the [American] Episcopal Church has been working to fulfil its mandate to confront racism and the institutional structures that support it.

27 January 2016

"Sacred Conversations" to tackle the demon of racism

The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, the Most Revd Michael Curry, has described racism as a “demon” and said that “sacred conversations may help the demon of racism to lose some its power.”

11 January 2016

Art installation turns garbage into advocacy for Syrian refugees

An art installation at Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York, is using waste materials to invoke images of refugee camps in an attempt to “foster awareness and spur greater relief efforts on the part of citizens and governments worldwide” for Syrian refugees.

15 December 2015

Health updates on US and Mexican Primates

The Episcopal Church in America and La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico (the Anglican Church of Mexico) have issued updates on the recuperation of their Primates after both were hospitalised in recent days.

09 December 2015

Sudanese "Lost Boy" ordained a deacon in Utah

In 1987, some 20,000 boys who fled the Sudanese civil war became stateless – their parents and families had been killed, and there was no prospect of being reintegrated in the country they had fled to avoid death or forced conscription into the northern Army. Some of them were eventually resettled in the USA and now one of these, Gabriel Garang Atem, has now been ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Utah.

09 December 2015

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop hospitalised with subdural hematoma

Prayers have been asked for the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most Revd Michael Curry, after he was hospitalised with a subdural hematoma.

07 December 2015

Anglican Commission on Human Rights formed to protect Central American refugees

Human Rights ombudsmen have met with Anglican and Episcopal Bishops representing the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to discuss the creation of a regional Anglican Commission on Human Rights to protect refugees in Central America.

02 December 2015

Paris' Episcopal cathedral hosts interfaith evening for peace and dialogue

A few days after a series of terrorist attacks devastated France and Lebanon, Muslim and Christian leaders gathered in Paris on 17 November for an evening of discussions about peace-making efforts and the role of religion in education, promoting dialogue and bringing an end to violence around the world.

19 November 2015

New York church helps human trafficking victims

Daisy, a 37-year-old mother, hasn’t seen her three children in more than seven-and-a-half years, since she left them in the care of her husband in the Philippines so that she could come to work cleaning hotel rooms in New York.

19 November 2015

South Sudan bishop visits USA to speak about peace and reconciliation efforts

The Bishop of Nzara, Samuel Enosa Peni, has told a congregation at Trinity Episcopal Church in Waterloo, Iowa, about life for Christians in South Sudan under five decades of civil war, a brief moment of unity at the new nation’s Independence Day, and then another civil war.

06 November 2015