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October 1, 2015
Matt Cowell, our YAV attended his first UN General Assembly this week. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is accredited to the United Nations and through the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations advocates and engages the United Nations. Read his blog below: Greetings from the United Nations! The General Debate of the seventieth session of… Read more »
January 8, 2014
January is human trafficking awareness month and January 11 is human trafficking awareness day. The year 2014 marks the 151th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. President Abraham Lincoln, upon signing the Emancipation Proclamation said, “I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper.” Because of the… Read more »
August 30, 2013
The Rev. Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) issued a statement today (August 30) in the wake of the escalating violence in Syria, calling upon U.S. and world leaders to refrain from military action. “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”… Read more »
August 6, 2013
Today, Ambassador Samantha Power presented her credentials to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Below is a statement made by Ambassador Power prior to presenting her credentials: Ambassador Power: Hello everybody. I’m Samantha Power. I’m totally delighted to be here-so honored, so thrilled to have started work as the U.S. Ambassador to United Nations. As many of… Read more »
December 2, 2012
Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Human Trafficking Roundtable has ways for Presbyterians to get involved in ending modern day slavery. Below is the statement from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Eighty-five years have passed since the entry into force of the Slavery Convention, yet this dehumanizing practice… Read more »
September 13, 2012
Yesterday, the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations welcomed our partners from the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon to advocate with governments of the United Nations Security Council. Each representative we met received a package including letters from the Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, stories of what is happening to Christians in… Read more »
June 25, 2012
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child met last week with nongovernmental organizations that offered recommendations to the United States to improve its efforts to stop the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. ECPAT-USA, a partner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s human trafficking roundtable submitted an alternate report to the… Read more »
July 11, 2011
Rev. Balázs ÓDOR, Ecumenical Officer for the Reformed Church in Hungary visited the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations on Friday. We had the opportunity to share how the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Reformed Church in Hungary are engaging in faith and public policy advocacy. The Reformed Church in Hungary engages the European Union… Read more »
