Sent from United Faith Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne, IN to the Office of Child Advocacy (in August – we are behind but catching up!): Several weeks ago, our congregation signed “red hands” in support of the “No Child Soldiers”…
Read more »As people clamor for democracy across North Africa, the United States has an opportunity to support a return to democracy in Madagascar. The United States can do this by calling on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to revise the…
Read more »The Reverend Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), issued the following statement in response to the bombing in Jerusalem today: We have received word today of the detonation of a bomb near a…
Read more »written by Cynthia Holder Rich and originally published on ecclesio.com; reposted with permission A Prayer for Madagascar God of Peace, Just Savior, Help us to be servants of those hungry for peace, not division; Strengthen our resolve to stand with…
Read more »We ansered that question on Friday for a group from First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, Indiana. At the end of a long day, at the end of a long week, the group arrived at the Presbyterian Ministry at the United…
Read more »This week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its 2010-2011 State of Food and Agriculture Report. I had the opportunity to attend the release of this report in New York at the United Nations, hosted by His…
Read more »Participate in the UNICEF Tap Project Providing clean water helps achieve Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
Read more »Share a drink of water through the UNICEF Tap Project Check out participating restaurants Find ways to help In 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project was born in New York City based on a simple concept: restaurants would ask their patrons…
Read more »“They are now brothers and sisters, and now death amongst us shall stop.” That’s the promise made by Nuer women and Murle women in South Sudan who worked with RECONCILE International – a promise all the more amazing because of…
Read more »Red Hands were recently sent to a number of missions of member states at the United Nations asking them to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed…
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