Friday, June 5, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
People protest in Sydney, Australia, on June 2 in solidarity with those in the United States protesting police brutality and the killing of George Floyd. Photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters [Episcopal News Service] The killing of George Floyd by police officers in...
Friday, June 5, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Police rush demonstrators as they clear Lafayette Square, across from the White House, during a protest against systemic racism and police brutality in Washington, D.C., on June 1. Photo: Ken Cedeno/Reuters [Episcopal News Service] On June 1, Julia Joyce Domenick and...
Thursday, June 4, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Sarah Bosch-McGuinn wears a protective face mask as she protests outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on May 29, 2020, in Plantation, Florida. Immigrant rights groups are protesting conditions at ICE detention centers due to the potential...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Farmworkers in North Carolina wear long pants, sleeves and gloves to work in the fields partly to protect themselves from pesticide exposure. Photo: Lynette Wilson/ENS [Episcopal News Service] Ana wakes up at 4:45 a.m. six days a week to work on a large farm in...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Panelists participated via Zoom in the June 2 Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing’s final in a series of three webinars focused on public expressions of collective grief as a path to healing. Screenshot: Pat McCaughan [Episcopal News Service] Atlanta...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Episcopalians in the Diocese of Washington gather outside St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, on June 2 to support protesters calling for justice after the killing of George Floyd. Photo: St. John’s via, Facebook [Episcopal News Service] The...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Cadex Herrera, left, was one of the artists who created a memorial mural of George Floyd near the site in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he died. Photo: Xena Goldman [Episcopal News Service] A mural honoring George Floyd near where he died May 25 has become a prominent...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he stands outside St. John’s Episcopal Church, across from the White House, in Washington, D.C., on June 1, 2020. Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP [Episcopal News Service] Leaders from The Episcopal Church have condemned the use...
Monday, June 1, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
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Monday, June 1, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Missouri Bishop-elect Deon Johnson, in a photo posted to Facebook, joins a group of Episcopalians in participating in a racial justice protest May 30 in St. Louis County. [Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians and leaders across The Episcopal Church are amplifying the...
Monday, June 1, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
A police line forms by St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 2020, as demonstrators gather to protest the killing of George Floyd. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP [Episcopal News Service] St. John’s Episcopal Church, the 204-year-old “church of...
Monday, June 1, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Union of Black Episcopalians hosted a “Vigil for Racial Justice and the Healing of Our Nation” online on May 31. Screenshot: Lynn Collins [Episcopal News Service] With voices echoing those of the 1960s’ civil rights leaders, a rainbow of black, white, Asian,...
Monday, June 1, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Members of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, gathered May 2 to package and distribute food for the local community. Photo: Carl Harper [Episcopal News Service] Grappling with the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 virus on black Americans,...
Saturday, May 30, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
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