Peace & Justice Archives

PC(USA) Washington Office urges passage of coronavirus bill

Posted March 16th, 2020

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness on Capitol Hill is calling for the United States Senate to quickly pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.

Joining Hands: Twenty years of perseverance

Posted March 16th, 2020

From advocating for the people La Oroya in Peru to fighting for farmers’ rights in Haiti, Joining Hands has been an international force for change for the last two decades.

Webinar explores The Black Manifesto

Posted March 13th, 2020

When African American activist James Forman presented The Black Manifesto in 1969, calling for $500 million in reparations for injustices against black people, he made it clear that he thought Christian churches were partly to blame for the oppression of his people.

It takes a village

Posted March 12th, 2020

Last week I mentioned that Steve Wiebe, executive pastor of Pasadena Presbyterian Church (PPC) and I were on our way to Adelanto Detention Center to be at a court hearing for our Cameroonian friend Bertrand. We met Bertrand in November 2019, during a group visit coordinated by our Immigrant Accompaniment Organizer, Kristi van Nostran.

Presbyterians and the 2020 census

Posted March 10th, 2020

Robin Bachman has three words to describe the 2020 census process, which gets under way in earnest this week with a mass mailing: it’s important, safe and easy.

Fire devastates New York church’s fellowship hall, but spares historic sanctuary

Posted March 6th, 2020

The fellowship hall at Calvary Presbyterian Church in Newburgh, New York is the heart of the community ministry of the 162-year old congregation just over an hour north of New York City.

Presbyterian group participates in worship at the Border Church

Posted March 4th, 2020

This past Sunday, the first Sunday of Lent, participants in the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program’s southern border travel study seminar helped with the service and lunch.

Foundation Board experiences life along the El Paso-Mexico border

Posted March 3rd, 2020

Members of the Board of Trustees and staff of the Presbyterian Foundation crossed from El Paso, Texas into Juarez, Mexico, to learn firsthand about the situation at the border.

Presbyterian group explores the experiences of migration in Central American journey

Posted March 3rd, 2020

A group of 24 Presbyterians and guests traveled to Central America in the past two weeks with the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program to learn more about the conditions in Latin American countries that make people choose to travel, usually on foot, to the United States border for the faint hope of a better life in the U.S. They also heard from migrants who had been returned to their home countries and the perils they faced after they returned.

Presbyterian generosity helps people left behind by hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico

Posted February 27th, 2020

Eighteen months after Hurricane Maria swept across Puerto Rico, Mimita Nieves was still living without electricity.