GENEVA (ENInews) – With one U.S. delegate dissenting, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee on 21 February criticized the U.S. for its Feb. 18 veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning continued settlement construction by Israel in the Palestinian Territories.
Representatives of Christian Churches Together (CCT) — a fellowship of 36 denominations and six national organizations representing a large spectrum of Christians — has issued the first known formal clergy response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
GENEVA (ENInews) – U.S. troop withdrawals notwithstanding, Iraqi Christians continue to flee because their safety cannot be guaranteed, and there is little hope their lives will improve soon, six Iraqi church leaders said Feb. 18 during the meeting of the World Council of Churches Central Committee.
GENEVA (ENInews) – The World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee on Feb. 17 took a hard look at whether it can adapt quickly enough to rapidly changing ecumenical and interreligious realities. If it cannot, one delegate noted, fixation on governance and institutional survival may "suck the life out of the ecumenical movement."
ORLANDO, Fla. (Presbyterian News Service) – Institutional questions around polity and governance are secondary to questions around identity and mission, two middle governing body executives who are polity experts told the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Middle Governing Body Commission at its second meeting here Feb. 3-5.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. –Attendees from the five partner denominations of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators annual event dined together here Feb. 3 and discussed diversity, media consumption, use of technology and their churches’ recent handling of cultural issues.
LOUISVILLE – Officials at Ecumenical News International (ENInews) in Geneva have announced the appointment of veteran North American journalist Solange De Santis as interim editor of the news agency while a search is launched for a new editor who will oversee the operation for the remainder of 2011.
LOUISVILLE – The need to minister to the ever-growing population of Spanish-speaking people in the south central United States has resulted in a collaborative lay training program organized by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
LOUISVILLE – Top leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have sent a letter to the denomination’s partner church in Egypt expressing their “anguish” over the New Year’s Day terrorist bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria.
LOUISVILLE – Phyllis Schneck, a member of Northminster Church in Tucson, Ariz., was among those killed in the shootings on January 8 that left six people dead and 14 injured.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Board of Pensions continues to adjust the Medical Plan covering church employees in response to passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) by the U.S. Congress in March 2010.
LOUISVILLE — On Oct. 19. Isaac Monah makes his second trip home to rural Liberia since he fled the war-torn country in the mid-1980s and subsequently emigrated to the U.S. in 2002.
MONTREAT, N.C. — Institutions and movements — secular and religious — need each other to retain their vitality, even as they frustrate each other, cutting-edge theologian Brain McLaren told several hundred Presbyterians gathered here in mid-August for "Church Unbound."
LOUISVILLE — The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) is recommending that the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) be held in Portland, Ore.
With the U.S. economic crisis deepening and unemployment soaring, a group of 11 denominational and religious organization leaders are among the inaugural signers of a call to raise the federal minimum wage to $10 in 2010.
The signers include Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Nearly 400 faith leaders from all 50 states have already endorsed “$10 in 2010,” a campaign led by “Let Justice Roll;” more are signing on each day.
LOUISVILLE -- The Presbyterian Publishing Corporation (PPC), official denominational publisher of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has announced changes in roles for several staff, most of which are effective immediately.
Marc Lewis, PPC president and publisher-elect, said, "These changes are intended to recognize achievement and to align staff in roles that both fit their skills and talents and result in improved effectiveness for PPC overall. It is PPC's practice to employ staff, as possible, in roles that individual staff find meaningful and satisfying while contributing to the overall success of the organization."
