Member Church News: Shelter, Gender, Frontier
A California United Church of Christ congregation threw a “Green Card” party Saturday afternoon, May 14, celebrating the promise of citizenship for a woman the church sheltered, in sanctuary, from the threat of deportation for nearly three years. Colleen Geyerspeech, assembly general secretary of the Uniting Church in Australia, delivered a speech called Partnering Women […]
WCRC supports WCC over Israeli incident
In response to the detention and deportation of participants to a World Council of Churches climate conference by Israeli authorities, the WCRC’s Executive Committee last week sent a letter of support to WCC General Secretary Olav Fykse Tveit. The letter said, in part: We join with you, Rev. Dr. Tveit, in protesting the “excessive, unreasonable […]