Swords Into Plowshares un security council Archives

August 24, 2011

The United Nations, Israel and Palestine – Palestine at the United Nations, September 2011

Posted 10:01pm

Presbyterian Policy Since 1948 General Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its predecessor denominations have repeatedly addressed the Middle East and particularly Israel and Palestine. The Presbyterian position has consistently been to affirm the right of Israel to exist as a sovereign state within secure, internationally recognized borders and the right of the Palestinians… Read more »

August 8, 2011

Situation in Syria

Posted 3:00pm

Presbyterians, with people around the world, hold the country and people of Syria in prayer during these challenging days. Presbyterians have been involved in Syria from the early 1800s, when early American Presbyterian missionaries came to the Near East. American Presbyterians took the lead in Syria, as they had in Lebanon, in education, health care… Read more »

April 12, 2011

Arms Down on Global Day of Action Against Military Spending

Posted 3:53pm

Send an email to the five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council asking their countries to take the lead in shifting spending priorities from military to development. The Religions for Peace Shared Security Campaign suggests this action for the…

Open statement on the Lord’s Resistance Army

Posted 2:59pm

Open Statement on the Lord’s Resistance Army by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect One year ago today, over the course of four days, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) slaughtered 300 people in Haute Uele province in the…

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