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The Northern Province of the Moravian Church voted June 18 to enter into full communion with the Episcopal Church. ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for July 11, titled "Historic Partners," report on the new full communion agreement, which was approved by the Episcopal Church's 2009 General Convention, meeting in Anaheim, Calif

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori arrived in Auckland on June 25 to begin an informal weeklong visit to the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.

The Anglican churches in Australia and New Zealand are hosting Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori for an informal two-week visit to the two provinces.

The custom of appointing clergy members to lead the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States in prayer has continued with few interruptions ever since the Senate elected Samuel Provoost, Episcopal bishop of New York, as its first chaplain in 1789. ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for July 4 outline the history of the Senate and House chaplains, many of whom have been Episcopalians

The Northern Province of the Moravian Church voted June 18 to enter into full communion with the Episcopal Church. The nearly unanimous voice vote came during an evening session on the second day of the church's June 17-21 quadrennial Provincial Synod at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The Episcopal Church's Executive Council June 18 allocated $246,000 in seed money to begin work on its earlier challenge to the wider church to raise $10 million to help rebuild the Diocese of Haiti

During its June 16-18 meeting here, the Episcopal Church's Executive Council adopted several resolutions

The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church has issued the following message following the conclusion of its three-day meeting at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights, Maryland.

The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, told the Episcopal Church's Executive Council June 18 that when Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Mary Glasspool was ordained as the church's second openly gay, partnered bishop, the church ought to have known that it would face sanctions.

In her 43 years as a school teacher in Baghdad, Aylin Manook read a lot about the United States to prepare lessons for her students. At the time, she had no way of knowing the transformative role the far-off land would play in her life.

The Episcopal Church's Executive Council began its three-day meeting here June 16 by hearing about the efforts to rebuild two dioceses: Haiti and San Joaquin.

When Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached and presided at a Eucharist June 13 at Southwark Cathedral in London, she carried her mitre, or bishop's hat, rather than wear it

The unusual alliance among Evangelicals, Catholics and Protestants pushing Congress and the Obama administration for comprehensive immigration reform has social-science researchers scratching their heads.

The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, is to speak to the Episcopal Church's Executive Council here on June 18.

"We are a resurrected church," Bishop of Haiti Jean Zaché Duracin tells other Episcopalians in ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for June 27. The inserts report on progress that the Diocese of Haiti is making towards establishing a master plan for rebuilding its facilities, most of which were damaged or destroyed in the Jan. 12 earthquake that also devastated much of Haiti's infrastructure and its already-precarious economy

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori June 15 reminded more than 80 people gathered at the Russell Senate Office Building here for a prayer breakfast that the Episcopal Church's call for a "just and secure two-state solution" for Israel and Palestine dates back to 1973 and the Yom Kippur War

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached June 13 during a service of Holy Eucharist at Southwark Cathedral in London, as part of a five-day visit to the U.K.

"Show up, pay attention, tell the truth and leave the results to God." This was the charge that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori delivered June 9 to some 200 participants attending the USPG-Anglicans in World Mission conference, noting that the Franciscan summary is an excellent model for the mission work to which the church is called.

The Supreme Court of Virginia on June 10 ruled in favor of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church in a church property dispute.

Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin said June 8 that he hopes the diocese and the country can "rebuild a new mentality."