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Pennsylvania church’s Animal Cabin gives shelter animals, caretakers a quiet break from the cage

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Shireen Korkzan · May 20, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, has expanded its animal ministry by launching the Animal Cabin, a respite space for shelter, rescue and foster dogs on the parish’s 4...

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World Council of Churches to host virtual prayer for peace in Ukraine

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Shireen Korkzan · May 20, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches is inviting Christians worldwide to participate in a virtual prayer session for peace in Ukraine on June 11. The event, organized in collaboration with the Ukr...

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San Diego diocese calls for prayers, peace after shooting at Islamic center

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Shireen Korkzan · May 19, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] San Diego Bishop Susan Brown Snook issued a statement calling for prayers and peace after a May 18 shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego in California left five people dead, including th...

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Anglican Palestinian woman Layan Nasir released from Israeli prison

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Shireen Korkzan · May 19, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] Layan Nasir, an Anglican Palestinian woman, has been released from Damon Prison at Daliyat al-Karmel, Israel, eight months after an Israeli court convicted her on unclear charges. “Joyful new...

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Elizabeth Berman elected sixth bishop of Hawai‘i

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Shireen Korkzan · May 18, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Elizabeth “Libby” Berman was elected the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Hawai’i on May 16 at the ‘Iolani School in Honolulu on O’ahu. Berman was elected on the second ballot after the...

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World Council of Churches ‘deeply concerned’ by African outbreak of Ebola

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Shireen Korkzan · May 18, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] The Rev. Jerry Pillay, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, released a statement May 18 expressing “deep concern” over the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

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World Council of Churches renews call for end of Russian war on Ukraine

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Shireen Korkzan · May 18, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] The Rev. Jerry Pillay, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, released a statement May 18 calling for an end to “unconscionable” violence in response to Russia launching drone ...

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Northwestern Pennsylvania diocese announces two candidates for ninth bishop

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Shireen Korkzan · May 18, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania Standing Committee announced May 15 that the diocese’s bishop search committee had released a slate of two candidates for the diocese’s ninth bishop.  ...

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Northern Michigan churches display red dresses in recognition of violence toward Indigenous women

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Shireen Korkzan · May 18, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal churches throughout the Diocese of Northern Michigan are marking the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives as a monthlong observance by d...

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Missouri initiative seeks to involve children more meaningfully in churches’ worship services

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David Paulsen · May 15, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] Trinity Episcopal Church’s experimentations with intergenerational worship started in 2024 after a simple decision. The Sunday nursery at the church in Kirksville, Missouri, was getting too c...

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Court reopens arms trafficking case against several Diocese of Haiti leaders

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David Paulsen · May 15, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] Several church leaders in the Diocese of Haiti are headed to trial in a weapons trafficking case, after an appeals court in the Caribbean island country reversed a lower court ruling that had ...

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RIP: Former Southern Ohio Bishop Thomas Breidenthal dies at 75

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David Paulsen · May 15, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Diocese of Southern Ohio] The Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio gives thanks for the life and ministry of its ninth bishop diocesan, the Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Breidenthal, who died May 14 surrounded by his family. He ...

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Pope Leo encourages Christians to share the good news of Christ in global prayer campaign message

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Shireen Korkzan · May 14, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Church of England] The good news of Christ needs to be shared, Pope Leo said in a May 14 video message marking the start of the worldwide Thy Kingdom Come prayer movement for more people to come to know Jesus. Christ...

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Ocean City church won’t close shelter after city threatens ‘enforcement action’

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Shireen Korkzan · May 14, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] Nearly six weeks after St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in downtown Ocean City, Maryland, opened its overnight shelter for unhoused people inside its building, city officials charged th...

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Wisconsin priest’s survey of thousands of churches aims to pinpoint what fuels growth

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David Paulsen · May 13, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] When the Rev. Chris Corbin looks at The Episcopal Church’s membership and attendance numbers, he sees bright spots. Corbin, a priest in the Diocese of Wisconsin, has launched a project with ba...

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WCC to participate in 79th World Health Assembly

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Shireen Korkzan · May 13, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches’ Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing will send a five-person delegation to participate in the 79th World Health Assembly May 17-23 in Geneva, Swit...

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Hope for peace keeps Sudanese Anglican priest among his people

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Shireen Korkzan · May 13, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] Every Sunday, the Rev. Daramali Ismael Gabriel Abudigin leads a two-hours church service in Tawila, as small town in western Sudan’s Darfur region. The 45-year-old Anglican priest is the to...

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WCC presidents publish Pentecost 2026 message

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Shireen Korkzan · May 12, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches presidents published a Pentecost message May 12 titled “The Holy Spirit Invites Reimagined Communities of Unity.” The message calls on Christians to invite the...

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Goat herd feasts on Michigan church’s invasive plants

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Shireen Korkzan · May 12, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] For almost a century, cartoons have depicted goats as animals that will eat anything. In Walt Disney’s 1928 animated short “Steamboat Willie,” for example, a goat eats Minnie Mouse’s guitar a...

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WCC calls for AI governance based on human rights, equality

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Shireen Korkzan · May 11, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches has joined the Future of Life Institute and 11 other organizations in a joint submission to the United Nations’ new Global Dialogue on AI Governance, which wil...

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