Member Church News: Protests, Programmes, Pokemon

Churches throughout India are stepping up protests against the country’s discriminatory caste system which disadvantages Dalit Christians and Muslims. The caste system is a Hindu-based status system that grades different groups of people on a social scale.

Trump’s Sunday School: The Republican presidential nominee might not recognize the Presbyterian church where he grew up, which is now led and attended almost entirely by immigrants.

Church leaders in Germany present both the pros and the cons of PokemonGo in der Kirche.

A partnership between the Church of South India and the Mizoram Presbyterian Church is strengthening through a pastors exchange programme.

The Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ is joining UCC national leadership in reaching out to the thousands of churches across the denomination with an invitation to join a public campaign of love and acceptance of Muslim Americans.

“We need support for the people of South Sudan and just peace”—an interview with Fr James Oyet-Latansio (JOL), general secretary of the Christian Council in South Sudan and Mr Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen (FHL), advisor on reconciliation, South Sudan Council of Churches.

Peacemaking Sunday is held each year on the nearest Sunday to the United Nations International Day of Peace on 21 September. The Church of Scotland, Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and United Reformed Church provide material each year for a service, including hymns, prayers, reflections and a visual meditation.

The recently concluded meeting of the executive committee of the Christian Conference of Asia affirmed its commitment to reshape the ecumenical identity in Asia and discussed possibilities on how to revitalise the ecumenical movement as CCA move towards the 60th anniversary of its founding in 2017.