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Presbyterian pastors team up to bring awareness to a land deal that will harm Native people in Arizona

Posted March 9th, 2023

A bill introduced Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives to prevent copper mining on a location sacred to several tribal nations in Arizona is being applauded by two Presbyterian pastors who have visited the Oak Flat site and met with tribal leaders there.

PC(USA), other congregations join in National Guns to Gardens Day

Posted June 13th, 2022

While thousands of Americans were marching for gun safety in 450 locations and 20 U.S. senators were working on a compromise gun reform bill, a group of congregations across the nation turned on their chop saws.

New Mexico church works to build the Beloved Community on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Posted January 17th, 2022

Members and friends of First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, New Mexico, will be spending their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday loving their neighbors by helping to end the pandemic.

Border wall art simultaneously expresses hope and resistance

Posted November 11th, 2019

Raised in both Douglas, Arizona and nearby Agua Prieta, which is just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, artist and community college instructor M. Jenea Sanchez has an interest in the kind of public art that’s a simultaneous expression of hope and resistance.

Lilly Endowment Inc. makes new grants to save historic churches

Posted August 12th, 2019

Lilly Endowment Inc. has furthered its commitment to supporting congregations and preserving significant portions of America’s religious and cultural landscape by awarding nearly $15 million in grants to Partners for Sacred Places and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, to extend the National Fund for Sacred Places (The National Fund).