Ten years ago, Jason Santos was in his first prayer service during a research trip to the Taizé community, as a Princeton M.Div. student, when an unstable Romanian woman murdered its founder Brother Roger Schütz.
Thousands of women and children are making the perilous trek from Central America to seek asylum from brutal violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The federal government is locking these families up in privately run detention centers. Our government is re-traumatizing families who have fled domestic violence and gang violence by confining them in prisons.
Monday night Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson, Richard Rocha, gave a statement regarding family detention. In this statement he said, “ ... ICE will generally not detain mothers with children, absent a threat to public safety or national security, if they have received a positive finding for credible or reasonable fear. ...”
Performing on the Spirituality stage at the 2015 Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, N.C., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminarian Rebecca Stevens encourages children of all ages to experience well-loved hymns and stories with new insights.
Presbyterian mission co-worker Jan Heckler approaches education in Madagascar with a deep passion in her heart and a learned wisdom, “I was called by the Lord in 1999 to go to Africa,” Heckler says. She followed that call to a country where 92 percent of the people live on less than $2 per day.
For the first time nearly twenty years, more than thirty African American clergywomen gathered from across the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for a time of spiritual rest and renewal during the African American Clergywomen’s Retreat.
For the past 20 years, Sushma Ramswami has served as the communications secretary for the Church of North India. Based in New Delhi, she leads an ecumenical communications network and serves as the denomination’s secretary of national issues, organizing rallies, walks and conferences such as the Christian Conference of Asia. She has led movements for the empowerment of women, children and youth and has organized training, counseling and healing for victims of riots.
<Espaňol> One of my favorite aspects about being Presbyterian is that no matter what we are called to do within the life of the church, we are called to do it in community. We know that being called to do things together sometimes makes things a lot easier and sometimes more difficult, depending on how we like to work, but in the life of the church, we are called to “do” and to “be” church together.
More than 100 people showed up to celebrate something very old along with something very new at Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church this past Sunday (July 12). As part of their 150th anniversary celebration, parishioners got their first look at the historic sanctuary that had been completely remodeled.
Jim Davis, a member of Miami Shores Presbyterian Church in Florida, and a long-time supporter of Presbyterian World Mission, has given $1 million to support church growth in Egypt. The gift will be split between new church development and pastoral training.
Shannon Beck, Presbyterian World Mission reconciliation catalyst, is leading a 10-day travel-study seminar to Guatemala, Oct. 12–21, at the request of the Protestant Center for Pastoral Studies in Central America (CEDEPCA) and the National Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (IENPG).