DETROIT – The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People has approved grants totaling $ 150,430 to 9 self-help projects in the United States.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) With violence flaring in Sudan as the July 9 independence of South Sudan nears, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders have called on all Presbyterians to pray for peace in the East African country.
The cleric's comments follow faith groups' interaction with the agency on June 7 and 8 during a preparatory meeting in Nairobi for the 17th Conference of Parties (COP- 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Durban, South Africa in November.
LOUISVILLE (Office of the General Assembly) Fulfilling part of its mandate from the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Middle East Monitoring Group (MEMG) has finished its work on a study guide for the Kairos Palestine document.
SKANEATELES, N.Y. More than 30 Christian educators prayed, discerned and reframed their ministry during an annual meeting of the Northeast Association of Christian Educators (NEACE), held here April 26-28.
CANTERBURY, England (ENI) Leaders of the Church of England and the Methodist Church have been urged to work more closely in the future in order to strengthen Christian unity.
GENEVA (ENI) The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council have approved plans for three-way talks that will include Lutherans, Roman Catholics, and Mennonites.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (PNS) The Rev. Adel Malek didn’t necessarily intend to become a Presbyterian minister. An engineer by profession, he and his wife moved from Egypt to the United States in the late 1980s. Malek worked as an engineer until he retired last December.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons has issued a call to prayer for Christians in Nepal, where proposed new laws could severely curtail religious freedom.
