The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) joined other religious and human rights groups to contact President Obama last Friday expressing their disappointment with his decision last week to waive sanctions against four countries the State Department has identified as using child soldiers….
Read more »Participants in the 2010 Presbyterian Youth Triennium made Red Hands to call for an end to the use of children as soldiers around the world. Their simple message has been delivered to a number of countries. Here’s how they made…
Read more »Georgia agrees to protocol on child soldiers In late July 2010, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mailed drawings of red hands and messages to the Mission of Georgia to the United Nations as part of its Red Hand Campaign to end…
Read more »The first batch of red hands and letters has been delivered. Over 800 red hands were created by participants in the Presbyterian Youth Triennium, They had the simple message: children should be children, not soldiers. Participants wrote some 200 letters…
Read more »This was a question posed at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium. Participants created red hands with answers – red hands that will be delivered to world leaders to call them to put an end to the practice of using children as…
Read more »Today marked the final day in the exhibit hall at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium. Participants stopped by the booth of the Presbyterian United Nations Ministry, the Office on Child Advocacy, and the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and added their prayers to…
Read more »117 Red Hand cards were made today at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium – in one hour. That’s almost two messages every minute to be sent to world leaders to tell them that children are children, not soldiers! Thanks to all…
Read more »Over 250 participants in the Presbyterian Youth Triennium created Red Hands to carry the message to world leaders that children are children, not soldiers. Some amazing messages were written: Stop the use of child soldiers: what if it was your…
Read more »Follow the Presbyterian effort to end the use of child soldiers on Facebook. The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations, the Office of Child Advocacy, and the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program have launched a new page to provide information and advocacy…
Read more »Worship at the Presbyterian Center on May 26, 2010 focused on child soldiers and how followers of Jesus, who welcomes children, can work to address this issue. Planned by a team of staff from the Office of Theology Worship and…
Read more »