With the holiday season in full swing, faith leaders across the United States have come together to campaign for immigration reform, focusing on keeping families together.

The “Home for the Holidays” campaign is a “major escalation of the faith community’s efforts to press Congress to pass immigration reform that keeps families together,” said Katie Paris, program and communications director for Faith in Public Life.

Faith in Public Life works to advance faith in the public square as a positive and unifying force. It hosted the Nov. 16 conference call launching Home for the Holidays. Participating in the …

The nine members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Middle East study team met Nov. 11-13, 2009, in New York City. Meetings were held at the Presbyterian United Nations office and at First Presbyterian Church of New York City.

The group’s agenda focused on further conversations with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, as well as ecumenical and Presbyterian leaders, as they begin to craft their final report to the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the PC(USA).

While at the Presbyterian United Nations office, team members held conversations with Ambassador Riyad Mansour of the Palestinian Observer Mission, Ambassador Daniel Carmon of …

Faith leaders gathered here Nov. 17 for a Summit on Domestic Violence.  

Greg Loughlin and Taylor Tabb, co-coordinators of the Georgia Commission on Family Violence (GCFV) Fatality Review Project, along with the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, planned the Summit to equip religious leaders with skills necessary to respond effectively to issues of domestic violence. 

The summit came after GCFV’s research showed strong connections between faith communities and victims in fatal and near-fatal incidents of domestic violence.

Domestic violence has taken the lives of almost 500 Georgians in the last four years and is the leading cause of injury …

Secondary school students involved in a mission exchange program between New Zealand and Vanuatu don’t see the world in quite the same way after their intercultural experience.

“We have made life-long friends in Vanuatu and the memories of them and the kindness shown to us by the people of Vanuatu will stay with us forever,” says New Zealand student Chloe Perkinson about her 10-day visit to Vanuatu.

The Global Mission Office (GMO) of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand has been supporting cultural immersion experiences for students at Presbyterian schools in the two Pacific region countries for the past …

Making faith communities more accessible to persons with disabilities is the topic of an interfaith documentary that will air on ABC-TV affiliates nationwide beginning December 6.

A Place for All: Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities is presented by the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission (IBC), a coalition of Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic faith groups — including the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — as part of ABC’s 2009 Vision and Values series. 

The issue addressed by the program is critical, says the Rev. Michael Kinnamon, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, as it is estimated that 1 out …