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Posts Categorized: Disaster Response
May 22, 2015
During an interfaith prayer service at the Tillman Chapel at the Church Center for the United Nations, participants prayed and lit candles for our sisters and brothers affected by violence and natural disasters. For whom do you pray?
May 20, 2015
If you are in the New York city area, join us and our partners for an interfaith Intercessional Prayer Service for People Affected by Violence and Natural Disaster.Friday, May 22 at 1:00Tillman ChapelChurch Center for the United Nations Corner of E. 44th Street and 1st AvenueThe service is organized by the chaplain at the Church… Read more »
December 9, 2013
by Esther Lee On November 20, 2013, Presbyterian World Mission sponsored a Webinar discussing updates on the current situation in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. The purpose of the webinar was to learn how the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is responding to the people of the Philippines affected by the typhoon and how U.S. Presbyterians can… Read more »
November 11, 2013
From our partners in Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: One of the worst recorded typhoons in history, Haiyan has left many dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, and extensive damage. The initial response includes provision of non-food items, drinking water and emergency shelter kits. All PC(USA) mission workers are reported safe. Read more. PDA will respond with One… Read more »
October 20, 2013
From Presbyterian World Mission Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and Presbyterian World Mission are compelled to help more than 90,000 displaced people, mostly Murle, in South Sudan who fled inter-ethnic conflict and gross human rights violations by the South Sudanese military. Our goal is to provide food, emergency supplies, trauma recovery and peace building support. We are… Read more »
September 9, 2012
In New York on September 17? You are invited to a brown bag lunch: Presbyterian Partners at Work in Syria and Lebanon:Followers of Jesus respond to the current crisis The Rev. Dr. Nuhad TomehThe Rev. Fadi Dagher Monday, September 17, 2012Brown Bag Lunch (coffee and tea provided)12:00 PM – 1:30 PMThe Episcopal Church Center815 Second… Read more »
April 30, 2012
Today, the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations hosted with Caritas Internationalis partners from the Diocese of El Obeid who spoke about their work in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan. A briefing with nongovernmental and governmental partners was hosted this afternoon followed by an appointment with a UN agency. The partners brought the message… Read more »
April 4, 2012
by Peng Leong Mr. Murakami gave a sad account of the losses and the disaster in Rikuzentakata, the town he once lived in. There is the only one pine tree left standing of the 70,000 pines in the city. It may not survive as the color is changing on the land that is now saturated… Read more »
August 24, 2011
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a new hymn that to support the churches’ famine relief efforts in the Horn of Africa. O God, You Love the Needy includes references in it to the lectionary texts for Sunday, August 28. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provides information concerning the situation in the… Read more »
August 19, 2011
Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on World Humanitarian Day, August 19, 2011 On World Humanitarian Day, we recognize the heroes who brave danger to deliver aid where it is most desperately needed. Humanitarians save lives, mitigate the cycle of chronic desperation that makes the world less safe, and… Read more »
