The Reverend Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), offers a prayer in response to the murder of Yusor Mohammed Abu-Salha, Deah Shaddy Barakat and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha on Tuesday, February 10, 2015:
Holy most merciful God.
Our hearts are heavy as we, the living, attempt to find some semblance of reason in the murder of three young students: Yusor Mohammed Abu-Salha, Deah Shaddy Barakat and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. Around the world songs of prayer and laments of grief go up from followers of the Abrahamic faiths and from people of good will.
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Nigeria’s election commission has postponed national elections for six weeks saying it would not be able to provide security for voters in the northeast region of the country most affected by the Islamist group Boko Haram.
Hace unos años, el consistorio y los miembros de la iglesia a la que asisto en Louisville, Kentucky, se encontró sin liderazgo pastoral instalado. La disolución de los términos de la llamada sucedió en circunstancias difíciles.
몇 년 전에, 내가 참석하고 있으며 켄터키 루이빌에 위치한 교회의 당회와 성도들은 위임 목회 리더십을 상실했다. 어려운 상황 속에서 목회 관계 해소가 이루어졌다.
<한국어> <Espaňol> A few years ago, the session and members of the church I attend in Louisville, Kentucky, found itself without installed pastoral leadership. And the dissolution of the terms of call occurred under difficult circumstances.
The annual Compassion, Peace, and Justice Advocacy Training Weekend will take place April 17–20 in Washington, D.C. More than 1,000 faith advocates, including 200 Presbyterians, come each year to the nation’s capital to focus on issues of national and international importance.
Preliminary police reports describe a long-simmering dispute over parking as the motive for the killings of three Muslim students at a Chapel Hill condominium Tuesday (Feb. 10).
“Microfilm is dead,” joked David Staniunas, records archivist at the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS). Then, “Long live microfilm.”
PHS’s new Digital Reformatting Program provides congregations and mid councils with digital copies of their paper records instead of microfilm—the society’s duplication method for the previous sixty years. But that doesn’t mean the society is finished with microfilm. It recently purchased a second digital microfilm reader that allows in-house researchers to view, scan, print, and share from its extensive microfilm holdings of records, correspondence, and publications.
Kathy Dawson, associate professor of Christian Education was honored February 5, 2015 as the 2015 recipient of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators (APCE) Educator of the year award.
The Reverend Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has written a letter in opposition of H.R. 399, Secure Our Borders First Act of 2015. This bill denies the value and dignity of persons who find themselves caught up in immigration enforcement and perpetuates a years-long enforcement-only strategy that must end.
Read the text of the letter below.