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Churches at cutting edge of helping Americans with political anxiety

For many Americans, next Tuesday’s general election can’t come soon enough, and not because they’re excited about it - more than half report feeling stressed.

04 November 2016

Standing Rock oil pipe protest may become "the new Selma"

The Presiding Bishop of the US-based Episcopal Church has delivered an impassioned speech in support of the Standing Rock Sioux community.

26 September 2016

Presiding Bishop steps up support for Sioux over pipeline protest

A temporary injunction to prevent construction of a controversial pipeline through indigenous burial grounds has been imposed by a US federal appeals court.

20 September 2016

Historic joint meeting hears of effort to change church's culture

Three senior groups of the US-based Episcopal Church heard yesterday about efforts to shift the culture of the denominational staff closer to that of the Jesus Movement.

16 September 2016

Presiding Bishop supports Sioux protests over oil pipeline

The Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop is supporting a Sioux Reservation as it protests the construction of an oil pipeline through burial grounds and the Missouri River.

25 August 2016

Death of former Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Edmond Lee Browning

The former Presiding Bishop of the US-based Episcopal Church, Edmond L Browning, died yesterday (Monday) at the age of 87.

12 July 2016

Christians respond to US shootings with prayer

Prayer services have been held throughout north Texas following Friday’s atrocity in which 12 police officers were shot – five of them fatally.

11 July 2016

Presiding Bishop brings message of hope to quake-ravaged Ecuador

The Presiding Bishop of the US-based Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, has visited the Episcopal Diocese of Ecuador Litoral to see relief efforts following April’s earthquake.

07 July 2016

Bishops' consultation helps keep Communion together, says Canadian Primate

Four Primates and 20 bishops gathered in Accra, Ghana, recently for the seventh year of the “Bishop in Dialogue” consultations.

04 July 2016

Anglicans mark World Refugee Day

The number of people displaced from their homes by war and persecution hit a record-breaking 65.3 million people by the end of 2015, the UN said today in a report released to mark World Refugee Day.

20 June 2016