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As the state works to adapt and find alternative solutions to divert families from shelters, a network of nearly a dozen churches in the Greater Boston Area has collaborated with the Brazilian Workers Center — an immigrant support and advocacy organization— to fill in the gaps. “We began working…
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Dozens of people gathered on the town common in Franklin April 6 to share song and prayer at a vigil in response to two hateful acts of vandalism in town last week, including one that targeted a Jewish temple. "The acts of vandalism to the temple this week are acts of violence," said Rev. Kathy…
Diocesan News

The Rt. Rev. Julia E. Whitworth, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, issued on April 1, 2025, the following statement on the detention of Tufts University doctoral student, Rümeysa Öztürk.

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Following the Racial Justice Commission's annual work retreat in February, its co-chairs report progress on two key projects adopted at recent Diocesan Conventions, and they commend the commission's five subcommittees for undertaking an evaluation of the mandates that have guided their work since their formation four years ago--with an eye toward updating those mandates to meet the moment.

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In 2019, the Rev. Cristina Rathbone decided to leave MANNA, her Cathedral Church of St. Paul-based ministry among unhoused people in Boston, in order to spend a season on the U.S.-Mexico border at a time when migrant families, including asylum seekers, were being apprehended and separated under the first Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy. The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death and Community at the Border, her new book about that experience and the people she encountered, is just out from Broadleaf Books, along with a reader's guide from Episcopal Migration Ministries.

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Lowell's early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New England and immigrants from Europe wove what Black people from slave-holding states in the South picked.  One vehement opponent of slavery was the first rector at St. Anne…
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All are invited to deepen their Lenten practice by joining "From Hearts of Stone to Hearts of Flesh," this year's Lenten Preaching Series at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston, on four Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. Scheduled preachers are: March 19, The Very Rev. Amy McCreath, Dean,…
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Episcopal City Mission (ECM) has worked closely with churches, partner organizations and legal review to develop guidance for how to handle immigration enforcement actions on church property. ECM's new guide, located at www.episcopalcitymission.org/ice-protocols and available in several…
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A thrift shop in Sandwich open for nearly 50 years has undergone a redesign, renaming and will now offer consignments, as well. St. John's Thrift Boutique, as the shop is now known, is at 163 Main Street. It's open year-round from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. The grand reopening…
Diocesan News

The Bishop John M. Burgess Massachusetts Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians, together with the diocesan Office of Immigration and Multicultural Ministries, offered on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, a festival service for the diocesan community that celebrated the life and ministry of the Rev. Absalom Jones--the Episcopal Church's first African American priest.