Member Church News: Assisting and Advocating

Imagine this scenario: you are 12 years old and almost 2,000 miles away from the only home you’ve ever known. All you want is to be reunited with the family for whom you’ve traveled to the United States. To aid children like you, United Church of Christ-related Bethany Children’s Home in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, is providing shelter, resources and services to reunite you with your family.

This Palm Sunday Uniting Church members will join thousands of others across Australia calling for fair, compassionate and just policies for refugees and asylum seekers.

The Protestant Church in the Netherlands is exploring ways in which village churches can assist asylum seekers.

At a gathering in Ottawa on February 28, representatives from World Renew, the international development, disaster response, and peace-building agency of the Christian Reformed Church, celebrated the 40th anniversary of Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program with government officials and others.

Showing “what advocacy is” keeps Presbyterians coming back to Washington, DC, event.

The South Sudan Council of Churches has presented its new website reflecting the idea of embracing peace. Several heads of churches expressed their support for the council and its latest mode of strengthening communication with its members and with peace supporters across the globe.