Presiding Bishop Michael Curry addresses Executive Council on April 18 in a ballroom at the Hilton Raleigh North Hills hotel in North Carolina’s capital city. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Raleigh, North Carolina] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry received a rousing standing ovation April 18 from members of Executive Council, who were seeing him in person for the first time in more than a year after his recovery from a series of health complications. “You have no idea how good you look,” Curry told his fellow Executive Council members as they gathered in ..read more

[World Council of Churches] People attending the Global Christian Forum heard from World Council of Churches general secretary the Rev. Jerry Pillay on the opening day of its fourth global gathering, held this week in Accra, Ghana, under the theme “That the World May Know.” “As we gather as the 4th Global Gathering of the Global Christian Forum under the inspiring theme ‘That the World May Know (John 17:23b),’ we are reminded of the profound significance of our shared commitment to Christian unity and cooperation,” Pillay said in his message, noting that the Global Christian Forum is also mark ..read more

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House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris and Presiding Bishop Michael Curry signed documentation on April 17 to create the new Episcopal Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice as an independent nonprofit. Photo: Amanda Skofstad/Office of Public Affairs [Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris, The Episcopal Church’s two presiding officers, signed documentation on April 17 to create the new Episcopal Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice as an independent nonprofit incorporated in New York. The signing, which took plac ..read more

Israeli soldiers stand next to the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel on April 10. Photo: Reuters [Episcopal News Service] The 81st General Convention is poised to consider 12 resolutions related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, starting with four separate resolutions that would label Israel’s disparate treatment of Jewish and Arab citizens a kind of apartheid. A hearing on those four resolutions is scheduled for 11 a.m. Eastern April 18 on Zoom with the bishops’ and deputies’ committees on Social Jus ..read more

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Rev. Glen Ruffle is the Anglican Communion’s assistant permanent representative to the United Nations. He writes about the recent 55th U.N. Human Rights Council and the Anglican Communion’s contribution. The 55th session of the Human Rights Council took place Feb. 26 to April 5 in Geneva, with the Anglican Communion working with partners to co-sponsor statements and observe proceedings. We co-sponsored a side-event, “Empowering responses to religious hatred,” led by ADF International at which Archbishop Balestrero of the Holy See spoke. He shared that ..read more

[Episcopal News Service] Atlanta Bishop Rob Wright announced April 15 that the Rev. Greg Warren will serve as interim executive director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing, based in the diocese and Georgia’s capital city. The Rev. Greg Warren was named interim executive director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Diocese of Atlanta Warren, a priest in the Diocese of Arkansas, will begin in his new role on May 1, succeeding the center’s founding director, Catherine Meeks, who retired at the end of 2023. Warren most recently served as rector ..read more

[Episcopal News Service] Central New York Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe on April 16 was added as a nominee by petition to stand for election as The Episcopal Church’s 28th presiding bishop, joining four other bishops who were announced two weeks ago on the initial slate of nominees to succeed Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. Central New York Bishop De-De Duncan-Probe became a nominee by petition for 28th presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church on April 16. The two-week petition period closed at the end of the day April 15, and Duncan-Probe was the sole petition nominee. She joins Nebraska Bishop ..read more

The Cathedral Church of St. Paul’s video of the Easter Vigil on March 30 shows the moment when Bishop Alan Gates removed the Rev. Tamra Tucker’s white tab collar before saying “just kidding.” Gates has since apologized for the incident. [Episcopal News Service] Massachusetts Bishop Alan M. Gates has issued a written apology for what he calls “an instant of altogether misguided mischief” in which he removed a female priest’s tab collar insert in front of those who were gathered March 30 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston for an Easter Vigil. The priest, the Rev. Tamra Tucker, leads ..read more

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Texas has suspended the Rev. Jason Myers, who had been serving as associate rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, after he was arrested and charged with online solicitation of a minor. The charge is a felony when it involves attempted sexual contact with a person younger than 17. Myers, 43, was arrested by deputies of the Collin County sheriff’s office on April 11, according to news reports. The Rev. Robert F. Pace, Trinity’s rector, said he first learned of Myers’ arrest when an investigator in the sheriff’s office contacted him on ..read more