Member Church News: Advent, Economics, Activists

An Ontario church invites entire town to Advent service.

Dora Arce, WCRC executive secretary for justice, tells a conference on economics and ethics, “We are united in the search for alternatives to the current ‘dictatorship’ of the financial system.”

A former moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has become just the third person to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Scottish Public Service Awards.

Andrew Brunson has been charged in Turkey with membership in an armed terrorist organization and sent to prison by the officiating judge. Brunson, an Evangelical Presbyterian Church teaching elder and member of the Presbytery of the Mid-Atlantic, had been held without charge in a detention center in Turkey since October 7. He was interrogated without notice on December 9 and imprisoned.

A blog post from South Korea: Lighting of the Candle of Joy on December 9th.

Bankstown District Uniting Church in Sydney, Australia’s southwest is looking back on a year of helping refugees and asylum seekers in the local community.

AIPRAL invites all sisters and all brothers in Latin America to join in the humanitarian initiative “hands together for Cuba and Haiti” to raise funds and to collaborate with the people affected by hurricane Matthew in Haiti as in Cuba.

Migration touches all aspects of church life in Europe today. From social and diaconal action, to liturgical life, pastoral care, and theological reflection, churches are responding and adapting to the movement of migrants within Europe and from beyond its borders.