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Officials with the Bristol Cluster Episcopal Ministry Council announced they will celebrate first service of the Bristol Trinity Episcopal Church on June 15. The new church formed after St. John the Evangelist Church in Mansfield, St. Mark's Church in Easton and St. John's Church in Taunton closed…

Three Bristol County Episcopal churches are merging into one, and will celebrate their first service together as the Bristol Trinity Episcopal Church on June 15.The new congregation will be moving to space leased from the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 143 Lincoln St., in North Easton.The three…

Saint Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church will celebrate a significant milestone this weekend – the 100th anniversary of the opening of its original worship space."Everyone’s heart is really in the chapel," Reverend Barbara Williamson said. "It’s the birthplace of this congregation." Saint Elizabeth’s…

Despite condemnation by the Archdiocese of Boston, Harvard chaplains, student religious groups and many alumni and students on campus, an organization of Harvard Extension School students will move forward with plans to host a staging of a satanic “black mass” on campus on Monday. “Just because…

At an important time of religious and town-wide reflection, Grace Community Church transferred Marblehead Ministerial Association’s covenant documents over to St. Michael’s Episcopal Church during a predominately sung liturgy service Sunday evening.The annual Interfaith Covenant exchange was held…

Yar Ayuel is happily married, has three children, a college degree, and a good job. It’s a life she could not have imagined when, about 20 years ago, she and her little brother walked for weeks across deserts and through wilderness, trying to elude northern Sudanese militia and wild animals, with…

Seven Episcopal communities from the Merrimack Valley joined together to celebrate the Easter Vigil on Saturday, April 18.  The parishes are part of the Lower Merrimack Valley Collaborative and include St. Andrew’s Methuen, St. Paul’s North Andover, St. James Groveland, Trinity Haverhill, St…

For more than 30 years, Medford’s St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church and Grace Episcopal Church have joined together to bless palms on Palm Sunday. The Rev. Noah H. Evans, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Chip Hines, pastor of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Parish, presided jointly in…

 Massachusetts faith leaders are urging legislative negotiators to raise the $8 an hour minimum wage and index it to inflation.Clergy members visited the State House Thursday to meet with legislative staff, carrying a message to Senate President Therese Murray to remain firm in support of…

The Rev. Alan M. Gates, rector of St. Paul’s Church in Cleveland Heights, was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts on Saturday, returning him to the diocese where he was ordained a priest in 1988.