For over fifty years, the people of Colombia have endured violence that has displaced more than five million Colombians and driven another 500,000 from their country. Thousands more have died. Since 2000, the United States has provided Colombia over $7…
Read more »The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who: challenged us to develop a world perspective reminded us that individuals do not live alone called us back to the challenge of making this one geographical world one neighborhood exhorted us to…
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 »Ecumenical Advocacy Days is meeting in Washington, DC this weekend and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations is excited to be joining our Presbyterian Church (USA) partners and the Office of Public Witness to be advocating for a just…
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 »“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 »Free ICNC webinar on the Egyptian uprising this Thursday / Waging Nonviolence. Today, Sherif Mansour, the Senior Program Officer for Freedom House’s Middle East North Africa programs, will be giving what looks to be a very interesting and informative webinar,…
Read more »In the wake of escalating tensions and civil unrest in the Middle East (and Africa), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders have issued a call to prayer for the peoples and nations of the region, as well as for PC(USA) partners. Here…
Read more »Can you give a month to accompany our Colombian sisters and brothers in the midst of violence? Consider participating in the Colombia Accompaniment Program. Leaders in the Presbyterian Church of Colombia are taking great risks in their human rights work…
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