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Daily Church News Briefing — Wednesday, 21 October 2026
A day of reported violence against congregations in Myanmar sat alongside church governance disputes, court rulings and leadership gatherings on several continents.
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Daily Church Briefing — Wednesday, 14 October 2026: a pope's recovery, ballots and courts
Pope Leo XIV's recovery from lung cancer surgery led a day of reporting that reached from American ballot measures to German church growth, a Maryland property ruling and a Scottish discipline referral.
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Briefing for Wednesday, 30 September: church doorsteps, courtrooms and a name under review
The day's news turned repeatedly on where faith meets the state — from immigration enforcement at churches to a disputed cross in Los Angeles — alongside quieter questions of identity and renewal within the churches themselves.
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Thursday's Briefing: A Legal Push on Church Politics, and Anglican Provinces Step Back from Same-Sex Rites
Government lawyers moved to free churches from a ban on endorsing candidates, while two Anglican provinces drew back from recognising same-sex relationships and a former youth minister denied federal abuse charges.
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Violence at worship, church courts convene, and the churches weigh in on AI
Gunfire outside an Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur led a day in which faith communities faced violence, internal discipline and the fast-moving question of artificial intelligence.
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Wednesday's Church Briefing: A Jailed Father, Faith in the Courts, a Region's First Vote
From Hong Kong to Manila, Wednesday's reporting followed faith communities pressing against state power — through a son's plea, through lawsuits, and at the ballot box.
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A Ninth Embassy in Jerusalem Leads the Day's Church News
A South Pacific nation's embassy in Jerusalem leads a day that also brought a congressman's new book, an English village weighing secession, a 9/11 prayer walk, and one writer's testimony.
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Church Briefing: An Archbishop's Interfaith Meeting, and Leadership Changes Across the Communion
Leadership changed hands across the Anglican Communion, while other outlets weighed faith's place in politics and technology.
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A court decides who holds a church in Exeter, as writers turn to memory, scripture and rest
An English court has settled which body controls the buildings of a divided Exeter congregation, while across the churches the day's writing dwells on remembrance, the reading of scripture and the disciplines of a distracted age.
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Daily Church News Briefing — Tuesday, 8 September 2026
The day's most consequential story concerns people, not argument.
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If Jesus Prayed for Unity, Why Is the Church So Divided?
The prayer of John 17 seems to have gone unanswered for two thousand years, and honest believers should ask why.
