By Anglican Watch A church court convicted Bishop Derek Jones of four canonical offenses and removed him from office; the denomination admits bishops knew of the misconduct but did not act. The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has made an extraordinary admission of institutional failure by acknowledging that bishops of its College of Bishops were aware of years of abusive behavior on the part of one of their colleagues but did not take any meaningful action. The admi

October 9, 2026 By John Sandeman Today, Saturday, the 10th of October, 2026, sees the Diocese of the Southern Cross grow towards 12 churches. In Brisbane, two lay ministers will be ordained as deacons, and their congregations will become Member Churches of the Diocese of the Southern Cross. The Anglican Church of the Torres Strait is also about to join the Diocese, becoming the twelfth Member Church. On the 17th of October, in Perth, Rev. Mekyal Keira, who pastors a Sudan

There is a continuing pattern of attacks on rural communities, people travelling on vulnerable roads, farmers, miners and community security personnel. By Dr Solomon Ubasi I www.virtueonline.org I October 8, 2026 The ongoing persecution of Christians in northern Nigeria is taking various forms including reducing or limiting opportunities to education, attack on Christian communities, mass abduction of school children, targeted attack/kidnap of clergy for ransom, abduction,

September 19, 2026 This transcript captures an interview with Bishop Azad Marshall of the Church of Pakistan regarding the withdrawal of an award from Maulana Tahir Ashrafi. Bishop Marshall explained that the Church of Pakistan was not aware of Ashrafi’s previous remarks praising Osama bin Laden and defending the blasphemy laws, noting that he has since worked closely with Christian communities and supported minority rights. The bishop expressed disappointment that proper due

PRESS RELEASE AMBRIDGE, Pa., Sept. 9, 2026— Today, Trinity Anglican Seminary announced the launch of Holy Order, a new podcast exploring how Scripture and the Anglican tradition—in all its richness and depth, both catholic and reformed—forms Christians for faithful living in a disordered age. Though produced by the seminary, the show is not about Trinity itself. Rather, it extends the seminary's teaching ministry beyond the classroom, making the formative riches of Scripture

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Grace and peace to you in our Lord Jesus Christ. Tuesday morning at 8:45 a.m., Bishop Edgar submitted a letter to Bishop Julian Dobbs, Dean of the Province, indicating voluntary submission to discipline in the matter of the Porter-Gaud chapel dedication. On Sunday evening, Bishop Edgar was notified that a Presentment had been submitted to the Province charging him with just cause for scandal or offense in violation of the disciplinary canons

A response to Dale Coulter's "The Great Seminary Sorting" By Bryan Hollon I Trinity Anglican Seminary I August 27, 2026 Although I’m a little late to the game, I’d like to make a few comments about Dale M. Coulter’s recent essay for “The Protestant Mind,” a project of First Things magazine. The essay is titled, “The Great Seminary Sorting,” and describes recent trends in theological education that none of us can ignore. After going through a list of institutions which have

From Anglican Mainstream August 15, 2026 To all who have been supporters of Barnabas Aid: There will be a Thanksgiving Service for the founder of Barnabas Aid the late Dr Patrick Sookhdeo on Wednesday September 2 in Oxford. We apologise that we have not been able to contact those who have been supporters directly but our requests for an invitation to be sent to the 100,000 supporters of Barnabas Fund have been consistently refused. Those wishing to attend and give thank

Press release issued by the Anglican Diocese of Jos August 11 2026 The Anglican Diocese of Jos has noted with deep concern and sadness the circulation of misleading reports and images on social media regarding the recent attempted kidnap of the wife of the incumbent Bishop of the Diocese and the wife of the immediate-past Bishop of the Diocese. While acknowledging that the attempt is true, we wish to state the following for the records and for the benefit of the general p

By A.J. Nolte and Jules Gomes and Gerald McDermott THE CHRISTIAN POST July 19, 2026 Getty Images/pawel.gaul The July 13, 2026 vote of the Church of England’s General Synod that effectively declared Israel to be guilty of genocide and settler colonialism denies both history and facts on the ground. The majority of world Anglicans already separated themselves from Canterbury in their 2023 Ash Wednesday Statement and in recent years have shown sympathy for Zionism for reasons

Jeffrey Walton I JUICY ECUMENISM I June 15, 2026 In 2024, the Church of the Good Shepherd received an extraordinary gift from the oldest Baptist congregation in Lynchburg, Virginia. The Anglican church first planted in 2011 that met across 15 years in homes and modest storefronts in the central Virginia city now worships under the tallest spire downtown, in what the Virginia Department of Historic Resources describes as “perhaps Virginia’s best representative of the High Vi

ALBERT MOHLER I The Briefing I June 30, 2026 I want to get to an issue which is really big. It has a huge history behind it, but it also has huge, well, diagnostic dimensions about the present. I’m talking about the decision and now being announced in Great Britain about King Charles III recalibrating and redefining his role, which had been for centuries as Defender of the Faith and Supreme Head of the Church of England, his constitutional role. Now, this can be renegotiate

By Arlie Coles I THE LIVING CHURCH I June 30, 2026 Comprehensive revisions to the Anglican Church in North America’s Title IV canons for clergy discipline were ratified by the church’s Provincial Assembly at a special virtual meeting on July 25, enacting the legislation passed unanimously by its Provincial Council a week prior. The reform radically restructures the denomination’s processes for intake, investigation, and adjudication of reports of clergy misbehavior, quintup

Denominational collapse is announced with plan to sell NYC headquarters The Episcopal Church Center headquarters in New York City By Albert Mohler I WORLD I June 24, 2026 The collapse of The Episcopal Church in the United States doesn’t really qualify as headline news. Membership has been in a freefall for decades now. More than 30 years ago, a prominent sociologist of religion declared in the Wall Street Journal that the church’s days were numbered. The article’s headline

Kenya Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit By Shadrack Omuka I THE LIVING CHURCH I June 21, 2026 The Anglican Church of Kenya’s All Saints’ Cathedral in Nairobi was invaded by unidentified individuals on motorcycles on Friday, June 12, during a public forum called to discuss the national budget. The chaos began when armed men arrived on motorbikes and engaged in a confrontation with security personnel. They forced their way into the church, with some wearing face masks to hide thei

ADOTS & ADOMS delegates Tulsa, Oklahoma – June 18, 2026 – The Anglican Diocese of the South (ADOTS) celebrates the approval by the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) of the application to establish the Anglican Diocese of the Mid-South as a new diocese within the Province. The historic decision was made during the Provincial Council meeting held at Cornerstone Anglican Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 18, 2026. Creating the Anglican Di

Canada’s House rejected a final attempt to stop Bill C-9, which threatens to criminalize quoting the Bible, including on homosexuality. Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images By Anthony Murdoch LIFESITE NEWS Jun 17, 2026 OTTAWA, Ontario — A final attempt to stop Bill C-9 was defeated, meaning that the bill, which threatens to criminalize quoting parts of the Bible, including on homosexuality, has officially passed Canada’s Parliament and wil

PRESS RELEASE June 17, 2026 BIRMINGHAM, AL — The Anglican Reformed Catholic Church (ARCC) convened its inaugural Synod in Birmingham, Alabama, from June 10–12, marking a milestone in the formation of this new ecclesial body rooted in Classic Anglicanism. The opening Eucharist on June 10 featured the Consecration of the Venerable Andrew Hayler to the Episcopate. Bishop Hayler was elected in June 2023 by the Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy to serve as a

By Jon Brown I Christian Post Reporter I June 04, 2026 English author and social critic Os Guinness received the 2026 William Wilberforce Award during the Colson Center National Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, on May 30, 2026. | Screenshot/YouTube/The Colson Center English writer and theologian Os Guinness recently received the 38th annual William Wilberforce Award from The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview to honor his decades of helping Christians make sense

By Jon Brown, I Christian Post Reporter I March 05, 2026 A recent survey of American adults found that despite a surge of interest in Christianity and church attendance in the months since Charlie Kirk's assassination, the number of people who adhere to a biblical worldview remains critically low, including just 1% of Gen Z. Conducted in January by Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research Center under the guidance of researcher George Barna, the latest installment