A leading US lawyer, Daniel McNeel Lane Jr (Neel), has been appointed as the new chair of the Board of Directors of the Episcopal Church in America’s development agency, Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD). The agency works with more than three million people in nearly 40 countries worldwide to overcome poverty, hunger and disease.
05 November 2015
The new Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in America, the Most Revd Michael Curry, has used a video message to encourage church members to go into the world, telling them to be “agents and instruments of God’s reconciliation.”
04 November 2015
Construction work is underway on an innovative new homeless project in New York which combines a 200-bed shelter providing crisis space for the homeless with 135 units of low-income housing, helping street-homeless people make the move from shelter to long-term home.
03 November 2015
At the start of his All Saints Sunday installation Eucharist in Washington National Cathedral, Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry declared his bona fides to the church.
02 November 2015
A new era for the Episcopal Church (TEC) in America begins this weekend when the Rt Revd Michael Curry, currently Bishop of North Carolina, is installed as its 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate during a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, which will be live streamed on the internet.
29 October 2015
Former Episcopal Bishop Heather Cook was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for killing a cyclist in a drunken crash in Baltimore two days after Christmas.
28 October 2015
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (TEC) in America, the Most Revd Katharine Jefferts Schori, has said that she is “deeply grateful for what God has been up to in the midst of our journey together.”
26 October 2015
The Primate of Canada has welcomed the new full communion agreement between the Canadian-based United Church of Canada and the US-based United Church of Christ.
22 October 2015
Diana Cisneros, herself a victim of human trafficking, has helped another victim find safe haven after her husband saw a young girl running from a hotel with no shoes on. "It was a red flag to him. He pulled the car over and talked to her; she turned out to be a victim of human trafficking. We were able to get her help and to get her to a safe place."
15 October 2015
The fire that gutted the Victorian chapel at the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in Alexandria, USA, should be seen as “to the Glory of God”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said as a new Chapel for the Ages was consecrated by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
14 October 2015