Today, Reliefweb shared the statement by the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speaking on Palestinian Prisoners day, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Maxwell Gaylard called for protection of rights of Palestinians in…
Read more »Today, we celebrate the Global Day of Action Against Military Spending. The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations has joined with ecumenical partners to begin a conversation on the topic of global military spending. According to Stockholm International Peace Research…
Read more »UN News Reported, “The Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have strongly condemned today’s [April 1, 2011] attack in Afghanistan in which a large crowd of demonstrators angry at the burning of a copy of the Koran by a United…
Read more »The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations is pleased to announce an update from our Caritas Internationalis colleagues: Fr. Richard [Kissi] was released from rebel/forces after intervention by UN forces. All details not yet clear. His release also facilitated other…
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 »Last month, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice spoke at the World Affairs Council of Oregon on Facing 21st Century Threats: Why America Needs the UN. This speech came at a time when some in Congress were…
Read more »Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator has said that over a million individuals in Libya are in need of aid. This announcement comes as some states call for a no-fly zone. To read more,…
Read more »From the Presbyterian News Service: International Peacemaker “The Rev. Luis Perez Alanoca is pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Bolivia and a professor of music. He is also the president of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Bolivia. He is…
Read more »From the Presbyterian News Service: International Peacemaker “the Rev. Joel Tendero has been a leader in the peacemaking ministry of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines for more than 20 years. His life has repeatedly been threatened by…
Read more »From the Presbyterian News Service: International Peacemaker “George Abdalla is a Palestinian Christian who lives in Jerusalem. He works with his father in the family’s travel agency/tour guide business, a business he will one day inherit from his father. Through…
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