Since 2018, 5,552 organizations have arbitrarily lost their legal status in the country, about 70 percent of the non-governmental organizations that then existed.
The Anglican Province of Central Africa confirmed its intention to divide into three autonomous national churches, and to allow dioceses to ordain women at a synod held this week in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
The center, located in Murray’s childhood home in Durham, North Carolina, contains exhibits about her life and provides space for community and social-justice programs.
An unaccredited seminary with neither buildings nor faculty — yet buttressed by an $80 million endowment — Episcopal Divinity School is determining what offering it will bring to the church in its current iteration, says new dean and president Lydia Kelsey Bucklin.
The Rev. Canon Andrew Hindley was subject to five police investigations for sexual impropriety and assessed as a major risk to young men, and only agreed to resign after receiving a six-figure payoff from the Church of England.
The Rev. William Taylor: “Yesterday’s commissioning was the second of its kind, and I suspect many others will now follow — and, in due course, ordination services.”
“I want to look around us and see how our loving God would respond,” she said. “I want us to become the heart and hand of God on Earth, and make God’s love very visible.”
“I pray for our clergy and the church family in Southport and for the way they continue to respond and live out the cure of souls in their community,” wrote Bishop John Perumbalath of Liverpool.
Archbishop Henry Ndukuba: “I want to inform the pilgrims here that the martyrs lacked nothing, but they chose to give their lives to Christ. When you have Jesus Christ, you have everything.”
The Rev. Canon Dr. Thomas Herbert O’Driscoll, a son of Cork, Ireland, and revered preacher and composer who served most of his years in North America, died July 25 at 95.
