[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona said he is “guardedly pleased” about the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 25 landmark immigration ruling, which struck down the majority of the state’s controversial law targeting immigrants.
26 June 2012
[ENInews] The World Council of Churches (WCC) has been playing an active role in the two major events taking place in Rio de Janeiro from 12 to 23 June: the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20, and the People's Summit.
25 June 2012
21 June [ENInews] Member churches of the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) have been holding consultations on sexual and reproductive rights throughout the region in preparation for a conference next year in Havana.
21 June 2012
The Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, a former Episcopal bishop of Washington and four Iranian Shi’ite Muslims, two holding the rank of ayatollah, are among the religious leaders who’ve traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, for the second Christian-Muslim peace summit organized by Washington National Cathedral.
20 June 2012
Occurred between days 30 and 31 May, at the premises of the General Secretariat of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (IEAB) in São Paulo, the meeting of the National Comission of Liturgy to follow up the reconfiguration of the Book of Common Prayer (LOC) and the Episcopal Hymnal (HE).
20 June 2012
When Gov. Dannel Malloy signed a bill in April making Connecticut the fifth state in five years to abolish the death penalty, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut Bishop Suffragan James Curry’s attendance at the ceremony testified to the influence of Episcopal leaders on ending capital punishment in the state.
14 June 2012
Bishop Laish Boyd of the Anglican Diocese of the TCI and the Bahamas, on Monday, came down hard on the interim administration, addressing what he called concerns of the ‘Anglican flock’.
13 June 2012
A Presbyterian church is opening its doors to civil servants of any creed and anyone who’s suffering from the stress of public sector layoffs.
13 June 2012
[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Ogé Beauvoir, dean of the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Port-au-Prince, became the Diocese of Haiti‘s first bishop suffragan May 22 during a service in the diocese’s open-air cathedral.
29 May 2012
After discussion and prayer and in accord with its canons the Provincial Executive of the Cono Sur together with its College of Bishops, did not ratify the election of the Ven. Dr. Michael Pollesel as bishop-coadjutor for Uruguay.
25 May 2012