Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) is providing emergency assistance to people in Kenya impacted by ongoing election-related civil unrest.

Episcopal bishops, local interfaith leaders, native American "smudgers" and drummers, choirs and churchgoers from throughout Nevada gathered January 5 to participate in the consecration of Dan Thomas Edwards as the 10th bishop of Nevada.

Jason and Tracy Engel's San Juan Capistrano home hadn't been blessed before Epiphany Sunday but on January 6 they moved from room to room with a do-it-yourself kit from their church.

Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts Bishop Thomas Shaw SSJE told a Congressional hearing December 18 that "too many Episcopalians did not raise their voices" against slavery "when God would have wished them to do so."

In her 2007 Christmas message, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori asks the question "Where will you meet Jesus this Christmas?" and calls to mind the challenge of letting "our seasonal 'seeing' transform the way we meet our neighbors through the rest of the year, and through all the coming years."

Every Sunday friends on three continents pray for each other. They have done so for nearly 20 years as partners in a three-way companion relationship that brings together the dioceses of Brechin in Scotland, Swaziland in Africa and Iowa in the United States. The places and people on the Joint Intercessory Prayer List become real as companions visit one another in Dundee, Mbabane, and Des Moines

The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations (IASCER) met December 5-10 in Cairo, Egypt, to review current international ecumenical dialogues involving Anglicans, respond further to the proposals for an Anglican Covenant, and discuss the ecumenical dimensions of the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

Calling the Anglican Communion "a gift of God" and describing it as "a voluntary association of provinces and dioceses," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written to the Primates and Moderators reflecting on their responses to the Joint Standing Committee's analysis of the New Orleans statement from the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops.

The office of the Anglican Observer at the United Nations (AOUN) has reviewed its work in 2007 and offered an overview of its plans for 2008. The full text of the release from the AOUN office, which is based at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City, follows.

A consultation has been held in London to review the progress of the report of the Anglican-Methodist International Commission Sharing in the Apostolic Communion, which was received by the World Methodist Council in 1996 and the Lambeth Conference in 1998.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has written to Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin Bishop John-David Schofield saying that she assumes his declaration that he is now under the authority of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone "means you understand yourself to have departed the Episcopal Church and are no longer functioning as a member of the clergy in this Church."

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has issued the following Christmas Message to the Anglican Communion, which is also available in Arabic, French, Portuguese and Spanish here.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has written to the Primates of the Anglican Communion and Moderators of the United Churches reflecting on their responses to the Joint Standing Committee's analysis of the New Orleans statement from the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops, and offering some proposals for the next steps in the lead up to the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) is providing emergency assistance to communities in the Pacific Northwest battered by powerful winter storms that devastated the region last week. High winds and heavy rains damaged homes and agriculture in large areas of the region, leaving at least eight people dead, hundreds in shelters and tens of thousands without power

Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) is providing critical assistance to people affected by severe flooding in South Dakota and Cuba.

Anglicans from around the world met near Chicago December 5-7 to build international coalitions and develop a strategy for the full inclusion of gay and lesbian Christians in the life of the church.

Local leaders, along with those from the wider church, are already making plans for the continuation of the Diocese of San Joaquin following a vote to disassociate from the Episcopal Church.

In her 2007 Christmas message, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori asks the question "Where will you meet Jesus this Christmas?" and calls to mind the challenge of letting "our seasonal 'seeing' transform the way we meet our neighbors through the rest of the year, and through all the coming years."

Walking as companions is at the heart of mission relationship, says Mary F. Brennan, World Mission Education Officer, in the December 16 bulletin insert that focuses on Companion Diocese Relationships.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had not endorsed an invitation by Southern Cone Primate Gregory Venables to offer oversight to dioceses outside that province, a spokesman for the Anglican Communion said December 10.