 PPF Executive Director recently had the opportunity to discuss our approach to nonviolence in relation to immigration, Israel/Palestine, and other issues on God Complex Radio with Carol Howard Merritt and Derrick Weston.
Click here to listen in to the full episode.
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As the 220th General Assembly of the PC(USA) comes to a close, we offer a quick roundup of articles from GA that report on some of the issues PPF was watching and advocating on most closely.
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PPF has published these brief documents that lift up key issues and analysis of overtures before the General Assembly that pertain to peacemaking and nonviolence. Please share these documents widely with commissioners and others at General Assembly.
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Grace and Peace to you all, Sisters and Brothers of the Presbyterian Church (USA):
The Challenge Before Us:
Immigration questions increasingly impact Presbyterian congregations and ministries throughout our country, that are :
- coping with rising anti-immigrant sentiment fostered by media and political campaigns ,
- dealing with consequences of federal border-enforcement strategy,
- finding that common services provided by our congregations’ ministries – shelter, food programs, access to health services, counseling, transportation – are being declared illegal by anti-immigrant legislation in the states,
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Join us on October 8-9, 2011 in Florida and converge on the new headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command outside of Miami, Florida.
The march will draw attention to the increased proliferation of U.S. Military Bases in Latin America.
Click here for more information
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) will be web streaming the plenary sessions and special events of the upcoming International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC). The video streams will be live from the Mona campus of the University of West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, where the convocation is being held, beginning Wednesday 18 May.
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Training Day: March 25th. Special training for Presbyterians:
Compassion Peace and Justice: Church Models that Work
Location: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC
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by Marilyn White
Dozens of volunteers from the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship attended the 219th General Assembly in Minneapolis this summer to help make PPF's GA witness stronger than it has ever been before. We were present at General Assembly in four significant ways: with our exhibit hall booth, at the Peace Breakfast, through advocacy for peaceful perspectives in General Assembly committees, and through our communications outreach to the wider church during and after the meeting.
GA made significant and substantive statements on the Middle East, Afghanistan, Colombia, and Gun Violence. But perhaps the action of most consequence was the decision to begin a four-year study to “Seek clarity as to God’s call to the church to embrace nonviolence as its fundamental response to the challenges of violence, terror, and war.” The GA urged that the steering committee in charge of the study develop a broadly participative process. We certainly look forward to engaging in such a study and learning more about nonviolent alternatives to war.
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