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September 4, 2013

PC(USA) church partners support call for no military action in Syria

Posted 10:10am

From the Presbyterian News Service: The General Secretary of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, a longtime church partner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sent a letter to the PC(USA) yesterday, expressing appreciation for PC(USA)’s “prophetic stand against all kinds of violence in Syria and your condemnation of the use of chemical attacks… Read more »

May 30, 2013

South Sudan: Church Leaders Detained

Posted 9:06am

from Amnesty International Two members of the Presbyterian Church in South Sudan, Reverend Idris Joshua Idris Nalos and Pastor Trainee David Gayin, were arrested from their homes by security forces on 19 May. They are being detained incommunicado, without access to a lawyer or their family, and are at risk of torture or other forms… Read more »