10 Dec 2025
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New York diocese leads the church in spreading awareness about violence against women, girls
The Diocese of New York’s Task Force on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault spreads awareness of violence against women and girls year-round, culminating in December when it observes “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based...
10 Dec 2025
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After lightning slashes historic church’s steeple, congregation rallies behind reconstruction project
“Act of God,” as a commonplace insurance term, may never have been more dramatically applied than to the scarred steeple that, for now, still sits atop St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church in Pocomoke City, Maryland. That scar,...
3 Dec 2025
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At Sewanee, Lessons and Carols services ground choral students in faith
The student body at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, is religiously diverse, with Episcopalians making up about 20%, but the Episcopal institution holds on to its Anglican identity through its campus traditions, including...
3 Dec 2025
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Episcopalians nurture Advent tradition of displaying nativities from around the world
Advent has arrived at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Brevard, North Carolina, and the seasonal altar furnishings aren’t the only telltale signs. For three days this week, Dec. 4-6, the congregation will place tables across the pews...
26 Nov 2025
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https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/11/25/pittsburgh-traveling-choir-brings-live-music-to-the-pews-in-underserved-communities/
The Diocese of Pittsburgh, though based in a large city, has many small churches in rural areas of southwestern Pennsylvania with no music program. To help bring music to those congregations, a group of volunteer chorists, called the...
26 Nov 2025
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Indigenous boarding school research groups merge as Truth, Justice and Healing Commission
The Episcopal Church is entering a new phase of reckoning with its historic complicity in the federal Indigenous boarding school system, as two church committees that had been examining that history have merged into the new Truth, Justice...
19 Nov 2025
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Diocese of Pennsylvania distributes proceeds from church property sale to food ministries
The congregation of St. Philip-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Oreland, Pennsylvania, held its last worship services in its former church building in May 2016. Now, nearly 10 years later, that building’s legacy lives on in a new effort...
19 Nov 2025
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Southern Ohio bishop suspends operations at Cincinnati church over ‘safe church’ concerns
Some members of an Episcopal congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio, are pleading to regain use of their church after Southern Ohio Bishop Kristin Uffelman White suspended operations in the building over “safe church” violations involving...
12 Nov 2025
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Louisiana church breaks ground on new building after former worship space was destroyed by fire
A Louisiana congregation whose church building was destroyed by fire in 2024 has broken ground on a new building. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge celebrated the start of its reconstruction project with a ceremony Nov. 2...