“We are here in a world struggling to find its soul, but the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not, cannot, and will not overcome it,” Curry said.

Episcopal ministries in the Middle East receive support from the Good Friday Offering, sponsored by the Episcopal Church, and the Easter Appeal, sponsored by the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.

Churches are partnering with public agencies and local non-profits, expanding feeding ministries and taking other measures, writes Jim Hinch for Episcopal News Service.

The theme was innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, reports Melodie Woerman for ENS.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry said the former presiding bishop was a leader “who bathed us in the love of God.”

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, seat of the Diocese of New York, will hold on March 25 a Service of Apology for the complicity of the diocese and its members in the transatlantic slave trade.

A broad constellation of activists, elected officials and citizens is pushing back against far-right politics in Idaho and surrounding states, including Episcopal Bishop Gretchen Rehberg of the Diocese of Spokane, reports Religion News Service.

Griswold led the church from 1998 to 2006.

All Saints’ Church offers support to any churches wishing to start refugee ministries, while directly supporting 25 Afghani families and more than 60 refugee families from other countries.