Those struggling against inequality need to know they are not alone By Cindy Corell | Mission Co-Worker, Dominican Republic On a March, 2024 trip to El Salvador to visit members of our Joining Hands network there, Asociación Red Uniendo Manos El Salvador (ARUMES), I was asked to offer prayers for people in pain. Rosalía Lopez… Read more »
September 4, 2024
Solidarity Fills the Gaps
Those struggling against inequality need to know they are not alone By Cindy Corell | Mission Co-Worker, Dominican Republic On a March, 2024 trip to El Salvador to visit members of our Joining Hands network there, Asociación Red Uniendo Manos El Salvador (ARUMES), I was asked to offer prayers for people in pain. Rosalía Lopez… Read more »
Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church offers support to Amah Mutsun Tribal Band by Darla Carter | Presbyterian News Service *Originally published by the Presbyterian News Service A series of conversations on how to take meaningful action to undo the harms of the Doctrine of Discovery continued this week with a spotlight on opposition to a proposed open-pit mine on… 
It’s the first time an international court has held a nation responsible for environmental impacts generated by the private sector By Jed Koball | Mission Co-worker Peru On March 22, the Inter-American Human Rights Court found the State of Peru responsible for violating the rights of residents of the Andean town of La Oroya, who… 
By Simone Mboule | ACREST, Cameroon The Bamboutos Mountains are a marvel, a volcanic massif stretches across three regions of Cameroon at an altitude of 2300m. The mountains serve as Cameroon’s second most important hydrological basin after the Adamawa Plateau. The mountains are also an attractive tourist site. However, human activities such as agriculture, livestock… 
By Cindy Corell | Joining Hands Land, Food and Agribusiness Concerns “Whole cultures of farming, of weaving and knitting, of cooking, preserving and fermenting, of storytelling and music-making, have grown out of the peasant family’s struggle to keep body and mind alive in hard times. What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to… 
By Herman Kumara| Chairperson, Praja Abilasha Land Rights Network Hunger, starvation, poverty, water and electricity scarcity, oppression, occupation, and violation of fundamental human rights are common to both Sri Lankan and Palestinian peoples. It has been 75 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), yet, both countries continue to… 
By Elie Kadima | POM, Joining Hands DR Congo The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a country in Central Africa with a surface area of 2,345,000 square kilometers. A country rich in natural resources, it is a geological marvel, containing over 70% of the minerals the world needs for electronics and green energy transition…. 
By Cody O’Rouke | Good Shepherd Collective With Ramadan quickly approaching, what should be a time of community and family gatherings for millions of Palestinians, will no doubt be one of mourning. The Israeli government is now preparing to restrict West Bank Palestinians aged 10-60 from entering the mosque during Ramadan — which will undoubtedly… 
By Jaime Enrique Muñoz Hernández | Asociación Fénix, Nicaragua The families of the San Miguel community, located on Zapatera Island in Nicaragua, have always relied on Lake Cocibolca (or Lake Nicaragua) for water despite its high levels of contamination. The lake is the largest in Central America. Several rivers flow into this lake, which, as… 
By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The Presbyterian Hunger Program has been supporting its partner Improvement and Development for Communities Center (IDCO) in Gaza since 2014 in IDCO’s efforts to improve the food security situation for Gazans. Back in 2014, food insecurity levels in the Gaza Strip had already exceeded 57%, with more than 36% of Gazans being severely food…