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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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Keith Chen-Cheng Li elected seventh bishop of Taiwan

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

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Keith Chen-Cheng Li, rector of Good Shepherd Church in Taiwan, was elected the seventh bishop of Taiwan on May 9 during the annual diocesan convention. He was elected on the fourth b...

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Florida church sends first all-Latino, Spanish-speaking pilgrim cohort to ‘children’s village’ in Bolivia

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

[Episcopal News Service] For more than 20 years, Christ Church in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, has sent groups of parishioners on pilgrimages to Amistad Mission, an ecumenical Christian orphanage and family care nonpr...

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Atlanta priest finds shared faith, community in breastmilk donation networks

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

[Religion News Service] When the Rev. Kim Sue Jackson, a 41-year-old Episcopal priest and Georgia state senator, started browsing Facebook for breastmilk donors in the Atlanta area, she didn’t think religion would pl...

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Time capsule helps Diocese of Susquehanna church celebrate 200 years in historic building

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David Paulsen · May 11, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] Christ Episcopal Church in Reading, Pennsylvania, had a lot of church history tucked literally inside its walls — a time capsule from 1863, the be exact, which was retrieved for unveiling las...

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WCC celebrating 80 years of United Bible Societies

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Shireen Korkzan · May 08, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches is celebrating the United Bible Societies’ 80th anniversary by attending the organization’s annual fellowship event, May 7-11, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Rev. ...

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Episcopal school, Western Oregon diocese remember victims of 1986 Mount Hood tragedy

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David Paulsen · May 08, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] An Episcopal school in Oregon is remembering the nine victims of one of the deadliest alpine disasters in U.S. history, as the school and the diocese mark 40 years since the tragic expedition...

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Documentary tells the story of Washington National Cathedral’s West Rose window

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Shireen Korkzan · May 07, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] A documentary on the creation of Washington National Cathedral’s West Rose stained-glass window tells the story of the window’s creation and how it made the neo-Gothic building a space that e...

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Northern Michigan display to bring awareness to extinct species

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Shireen Korkzan · May 06, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] UP Wild Church, a ministry of the Diocese of Northern Michigan and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Northern Great Lakes Synod, will observe Endangered Species Day with an outdoor...

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Anglican Communion secretary general visits Massachusetts church

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Shireen Korkzan · May 06, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Rt. Rev. Anthony Poggo, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, visited the Church of the Advent in Boston, Massachusetts, this week. He met with Massachusetts Bishop Julia W...

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Southern hemisphere churches to celebrate Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

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Shireen Korkzan · May 06, 2026 · Posted by: Episcopal News Service

[World Council of Churches] Churches and Christians in the southern hemisphere will observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity May 17-24, which traditionally centers around the Ascension and Pentecost. This year’s...

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