Blaze damages historic Virginian church
A FIRE that severely broken St Peter’s Episcopal Church, Oak Grove, within the diocese of Virginia, a couple of days earlier than Christmas, meant that the ministry workforce needed to discover different venues in neighboring church buildings for its Christmas providers. No one was within the constructing when the hearth broke out. An image circulated by the diocese (proper) reveals firefighters on the altar surrounded by ashy particles, soot-covered partitions, and smoke nonetheless billowing as much as charred rafters. The reason for the hearth is but to be recognized. St. Peter’s, which is on the National Register of Historic Places within the United States, had been getting ready to rejoice its one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary in May.
Presiding Bishop in hospital once more
THE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church within the United States, the Most Revd Michael Curry (above), is recovering in hospital after mind surgical procedure, the Episcopal News Service studies. Bishop Curry is being handled for a recurrence of a subdural hematoma, or mind bleed, which occurred final month. Bishop Curry, who’s 70, is coming to the top of a nine-year time period as Presiding Bishop. The course of to pick out his successor has already begun (News, 22 September 2023).
Donations pour in for Hawaii after wildfires
THE Bishop of Hawaii, the Rt Revd Robert Fitzpatrick, has mentioned that he was “moved to tears” by the love and generosity of donors world wide in response to the wildfires that killed 100 folks in Hawaii final summer time (News, 18 August 2023). Almost $1 million was obtained in mixed donations to the Bishop’s Pastoral Fund, the diocese’s group outreach program, A Cup of Cold Water, and Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church, Lahaina, in Maui, which was destroyed along with a whole bunch of different buildings. Bishop Fitzpatrick mentioned that the rebuilding of Holy Innocents’ was more likely to be years away. “The total city was decimated,” he wrote. The Maui wildfires are the deadliest pure catastrophe in Hawaii because the 1946 tsunami that killed greater than 150 folks.