Protestant Episcopal Church

The names of people who have died while homeless in Alameda and Santa Clara counties will be read aloud in a community candlelight vigil Monday night in Fremont.

Hundreds of clergy and congregants from the Los Angeles and San Diego Episcopal Dioceses walked to the border wall as a symbolic gesture of compassion for immigrants suffering from social injustices.

Robert Mueller has finally spoken. But it isn’t easy to find exactly what he said. A summary of Mueller’s findings is in a four-page letter sent to Congress on Sunday and signed by Attorney General William Barr. It’s Barr’s work, describing the work of Washington’s mystery man from the last two years. But Barr only rarely quotes Mueller directly, bringing...

Several local churches say they are being overwhelmed with the influx of asylum-seeking immigrant being dropped off on the streets with nowhere to go.

The ashes of Matthew Shepard, whose brutal murder in the 1990s became a rallying cry for the gay rights movement, were laid to rest in Washington National Cathedral.

Felicia Sanders has searched for a reason why she was one of only three survivors left after a white supremacist opened fire at her church in Charleston three years ago, killing her son, aunt and seven other African-American parishioners....
She has carried the weight of those nine lives that were lost when 21-year-old Dylann Roof turned a Bible study gathering at...

Twenty years after his death, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was abducted and killed in Wyoming, will be laid to rest at the Washington National Cathedral.

Miguel Contreras refurbishes apartments for a living, but opts to pay $800 a month to rent a camper on the street near a park in Mountain View. It’s not permanent he says, because there’s no running water.

Nothing captured the trans-Atlantic nature of Saturday’s royal wedding as much as the guest preacher whose sermon brought American fire and flair to a very English church service. The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, the first black leader of the Episcopal Church in the United States, was hand-picked by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to address their 600 wedding guests....

Kensington Palace says the head of the Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, will speak at the wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle.

Former President George H.W. Bush greeted some of the hundreds of mourners filing through a large Houston church on Friday to pay final respects to his wife of 73 years, former first lady Barbara Bush.

Famed architect Michael Arad, designer of the National September 11 Memorial in New York, will create a piece to honor the victims of the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, NBC News reported....
Rev. Eric Manning, Emanuel AME pastor, said that the memorial will serve as a representation of the historically black church’s strength and called it the oldest African Methodist...

The first openly lesbian bishop in the United Methodist Church can stay on the job for now, but she is subject to a disciplinary review that could lead to her removal, the top church court ruled Friday....
Bishop Karen Oliveto’s civil marriage to another woman violates church law that bars clergy who are “self-avowed practicing homosexuals,” the Judicial Council said. However,...

A federal judge quickly has denied a request to delay a competency hearing for the white man facing a possible death sentence in the killing of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church.

The white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church will act as his own attorney in his federal death penalty trial. Dylann Roof’s request Monday came against his lawyers’ advice, and U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel said he would reluctantly accept the 22-year-old’s “unwise” decision. Noted death penalty attorney David Bruck then slid over...

A judge has ruled that Dylann Roof is competent to stand trial for the killing of nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church. Judge Richard Gergel made the ruling Friday after a two-day hearing behind closed doors earlier this week. The hearing was needed after Roof’s attorneys questioned earlier this month whether he could help them on the eve...

A judge announced Tuesday that he has ordered another competency exam for a white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church one day after halting jury selection because of a motion from defense attorneys. The exam for Dylann Roof is underway and should be finished by next week.

This week’s cold weather is having a catastrophic impact on those struggling out on the streets.

Pastor Dick Bernal of Jubilee Christian Center has publicly stated that he will not perform marriage ceremonies that are not between a man and a woman.