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(RNS) — McKenzie succeeds Jim Winkler, who left the ecumenical organization on Jan. 31.

How the Church of South India and Church of North India were formed—and how they fare today.

The Rev. Dr. H. Eddie Fox died on July 28, 2021, in Sevierville, Tennessee.

Rev. Dr. Silvester Scott Beaman Elected and Consecrated Bishop of AME Church st Quadrennial General Conference  , Rev. Dr. Silvester Scott Beaman was elected and consecrated the 139 th Bishop. He has been assigned to serve the 15 th Episcopal AME District in which he will superintend the following Annual Conferences: Cape Town, Namibia, Kalahari, Queenstown and Angola. His former pastorates include Bethel AME, Lackawanna, New York; St. Paul AME, Hamilton, Bermuda; and Bethel A.M.E. Church in ...

Equitable vaccine distribution is a humanitarian imperative There is a choice. The world of the next 10 years can be one of greater justice, abundance and dignity. Or it can be one of conflict, insecurity and poverty. We are at a turning point. COVID-19 has been a truly global crisis in which we all have shouldered a burden. In many cases this has caused us to reflect on those longer injustices that have perpetuated in parts of the world where the pandemic is yet another layer of misery, instab...

  DALLAS (SMU) – Bridwell Library (Perkins School of Theology and SMU Libraries) at Southern Methodist University has been named the recipient of the collections of the recently closed World Methodist Council Museum in Lake Junaluska, N.C.  The announcement was made by the World Methodist Council (WMC) Archival Committee on April 1, 2021. The entire collection will be given and transferred to Bridwell Library at SMU by May 15, 2021.  “I am relieved and excited that the collection will r...

Preface The ministry entrusted to the bishop is a service of unity both within his diocese and of unity between the local church and the universal church. That ministry therefore has special significance in the search for the unity of all Christ’s followers. The bishop’s responsibility for promoting Christian unity is clearly affirmed in the Code of Canon Law of the Latin Church among the tasks of his pastoral office: “He is to act with humanity and charity toward the brothers and sisters...