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...
12 Nov 2025
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US veterans’ service lauded during first churchwide Veterans Day service
Veterans Day is both personal and sacred, the Rt. Rev. Ann Ritonia told participants at The Episcopal Church’s first churchwide Veterans Day service on Nov. 11. During her sermon, Ritonia, bishop suffragan for The Episcopal Church’s...
5 Nov 2025
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New York cathedral, diocese call on community to help feed people as SNAP benefits are reduced
The Very Rev. Winnie Varghese, dean of New York’s Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, has been preaching for the past week about the need for the community to step up to help people who face the loss of food benefits. Due to the...
5 Nov 2025
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Episcopal Church reports no baptized membership data for 2024, citing parochial report ‘confusion’
The Episcopal Church has many members. In most years, it can provide a specific count of its baptized members – 1.5 million in 2023 — based on data compiled from its congregations’ parochial reports. Not for 2024. When the...
22 Oct 2025
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7 dioceses receive assessment waivers as Episcopal Church finalizes 2026 revenue projections
Seven Episcopal dioceses have requested and received assessment waivers, meaning they will not be required to pay the full 15% of diocesan revenue to support the churchwide budget in 2026. Those waivers were approved by Executive...