The third victim in the May 3 shootings at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City, Maryland, has died.

In the wake of the March 6 murder-suicide at Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Florida, officials have opened the campus to students, faculty and staff seeking counseling and comfort.

The Olympia diocese will “accommodate” the new law “within its structure,” according to a statement made prior to the legislation being signed into law.

The Episcopal News Service created a video featuring knitting for Christmas at Sea, a program through the Seaman's Church Institute in which volunteers knit garments and distribute gifts to mariners who are far away from home during the holidays.

The bishops of the Episcopal Church’s Province IV have asked their colleague, Diocese of South Carolina Bishop Mark Lawrence, to meet with them “to have a clarifying conversation” about his decision to issue property deeds to each diocesan congregation.

While membership in 16 of the Episcopal Church's domestic dioceses and eight of its non-domestic ones grew in 2010, recently released data shows that overall membership has declined.

An unusual magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck in central Virginia during the early afternoon Aug. 23 significantly damaged the central tower ofWashington National Cathedral about 84 miles to the northeast.

The Rev. Canon Mary Michael Simpson, a member of the Episcopal Church-affiliated monastic Order of St Helena for 58 years and a pacesetter in women's ministry, died July 20, 2011, in Augusta, Georgia.