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August 9, 2013

NGO Working Group on Food & Hunger releases inaugural newsletter

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  The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations joins other nongovernmental organizations with UN accreditation in work for a just and reliable world food system.  The NGO Working Group on Food and Hunger at the United Nations “recognizes that nearly a billion people in the world are hungry and a billion more suffer from malnutrition…. Read more »
April 8, 2013

Global discipleship on food and hunger

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Last week, I hosted a workshop at the Compassion, Peace and Justice Training Day in Washington, DC.  The workshop focused on global discipleship and food and hunger advocacy within the international community. Participants looked at three critical global issues around food and hunger policy: soil, water and land grabbing.  Participants talked about ways in which… Read more »
October 1, 2012

Presbyterian engagement at the United Nations General Assembly

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Last week, New York City welcomed world leaders to the 67th United Nations General Assembly.  The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations was active in raising the voice of Presbyterians from here in the United States as well as those of our partners in the World Communion of Reformed Churches. Worshiped with world leaders at… Read more »
October 31, 2011

Launch of the International Year of Cooperatives

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Today, the United Nations General Assembly will launch the International Year of the Cooperatives.  Mongolia has sponsored the resolution to designate 2012 as the International Year.  Today, I join colleagues from the world governments and non-governmental organizations at this launch.  This afternoon, the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP will join H.E. Mr. Nassir… Read more »
July 28, 2011

A reminder

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I led morning prayers at the Church Center for the United Nations on Thursday morning. I shared a story about a member of the Communion of Saints – Samuel Johnson. I was reading the Bible, not Boswell. I met Samuel in Orangeburg, SC some fifteen years ago. It was good to remember him. During the… Read more »
July 27, 2011

Numbers and the Horn of Africa

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Reports from UN the Horn of Africa estimate that 10,000,000 people are experiencing a severe food crisis. That’s more people than live in New York City (not including urban area).  That’s more people than live in Wyoming, Washington D.C., Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine combined.  Here… Read more »
July 22, 2011

PC(USA) responds to crisis in Horn of Africa

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From Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) has provided $100,000 from One Great Hour of Sharing funds to help meet the immediate and basic humanitarian needs of people affected by the drought in the Horn of Africa.  PDA is responding to this crisis as a member of ACT Alliance.  Fellow ACT Alliance members with programs… Read more »
July 21, 2011

Crisis in the Horn of Africa

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Some 10 million people in the Horn of Africa face a severe food crisis and could starve following a prolonged drought. “In some areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda, drought conditions are the worst in 60 years, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in an update.” On July 20,… Read more »
December 3, 2010

Advent Devotion – December 3, 2010

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Scripture – Psalm 102 “Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that people yet unborn may praise the LORD.” (Psalm 102:18) Many of us know some variation of the proverb “The true meaning of life is to…

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“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” — Luke 23:42

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