The three sets of candidates standing for co-moderators of the 224th General Assembly will have an additional day to polish their campaign speeches.
미국장로교의 총회 정서기는 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) 종식 노력을 저지한 대법원의 5대4 판결을 승리로 여기고 있다. 버락 오바마 행정부에서 시작된 이 프로그램은 이 나라에 어린이로 온 수십만 명의 이민자들을 추방으로부터 보호한다.
“이 중요한 순간에 우리는 역사적인 결정을 통해 하나님의 정의가 표현되는 것을 보게됩니다. 이번 승리는 DACA 수상자들과 그들을 사랑하고 존중하는 지역 사회의 용기 있고 의로운 일의 궁극적인 반영입니다” 라고 J. 허버트 넬슨 목사는 말했다. "우리는 이 기쁜소식을 축하합니다."
La decisión 5-4 de la Corte Suprema de ayer de bloquear los esfuerzos del Presidente Donald Trump para poner fin a la Acción Diferida para la Llegada de Niños (DACA) está siendo descrita como una victoria por el Secretario Permanente de la Asamblea General de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.) El programa, iniciado bajo la administración de Barack Obama, protege de la deportación a cientos de miles de inmigrantes que llegaron a este país cuando eran niños.
"Es en estos momentos cruciales que vemos la justicia de Dios expresada a través de decisiones históricas. Esta victoria es el reflejo final de la valiente y justa labor de los receptores de la DACA y de la comunidad que los ama y respeta", dijo el Reverendo Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II. "Celebramos esta buena noticia".
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is being described as a victory by the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The program, started under President Barack Obama’s administration, protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to this country as children.
COVID-19 has us all sheltering in place and employees of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are still working from home. But on Friday there was a great sense of oneness as the staff came together to celebrate Juneteenth.
What’s an activist for social and racial justice to do when a global pandemic turns the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly into an online proceeding with a significantly streamlined agenda? Answer: Encourage Presbyterians to fight for justice at the grassroots level, including in their own communities.
It is certainly disappointing, the Rev. Kate Foster Connors says.
Worried about how mainline churches are communicating to the youngest and oldest in their congregations during a time of online worship, Karen DeBoer, creative resource developer for the Christian Reformed Church in North America, recently surveyed a landscape of churches.
COVID-19 and its attendant restrictions on gathering has led Stony Point Center in New York to permanently lay off 40 of its 49 staff, part of a plan co-director Rick Ufford-Chase says is a retooling to survive the pandemic and keep the facility open for small group use.
Members of the Assembly Committee on Business Referrals have settled on the proposed items of business for the 224th General Assembly (2020) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The committee finalized the docket for the gathering that opens its first plenary Friday evening.