Member Church News: Welcome, Support, Partner

The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) has urged a more welcoming approach to refugees, calling for an increase in the annual refugee intake to 60,000 by the end of the decade.

A statement released on Monday, May 23rd as part of the 11th annual Days of Prayer and Action for Peace in Colombia celebrated in the United States and Colombia was signed by 25 leaders of faith-based organizations and religious communities from across the United States showing support for the advancing peace processes and urging U.S. support for peace implementation in Colombia.

The Church of South India’s Department of Mission and Evangelism organized a consultation on Becoming a Migrant Friendly Congregation on the theme “Knitting Neighbourhood” from 20th to 22nd April 2016 at CSI Centre, Chennai. This program was sponsored by EMS (Evangelical Mission in Solidarity).

The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has unanimously backed a landmark agreement to enter into an historic ecumenical partnership with the Church of England.

Jordan Cantwell, moderator of the United Church of Canada, has written a pastoral letter on crises facing Indigenous communities and how the church can and should respond.

The latest newsletter from the Peshawar Diocese of the Church of Pakistan includes articles on a special children’s day, cricket-mania and an adult literacy training programme.

A pastoral letter from AIPRAL (Alianza de Iglesias Presbiterianas y Reformadas de América Latina) expresses concern about the political situation in Brazil.

Members of a North St. Louis congregation returned to their shuttered church to see how their gifts to a local nonprofit are helping children in their old neighborhood.

A global gathering in the German city of Halle has called on churches to be inspired by the tradition of the Reformation to become agents of transformation.