Religion News Service. Presbyterians for Middle East Peace (PFMEP) announces the publication of Two States for Two Peoples, a new resource for Christians and others concerned with peace in the Holy Land. The publication comes as many view the Palestinian-Israeli peace process as stalled, and as activists from the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS)…
What we in the West see as ancient history is contemporary day-to-day reality in the Middle East. “Today in history” matters today. On November 29, 1947, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly voted in favor of Resolution 181, the plan for the partition of Palestine. That UN resolution ended the British Mandate adopted by the…
By Steve Lipman, The Jewish Week On the Upper West Side, Rev. Katharine Rhodes Henderson, president of the Auburn Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), is a veteran of a study mission to Israel and dialogue activities with the Jewish community. In Sugar Land, Texas, a suburb of Houston, Mississippi-born Rev….
While Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and other religious leaders in the United States wrote a letter to President Barrack Obama asking that the US respond to the escalation of violence in Iraq with peaceful – non-violent – reconciliation, religious leaders in Iraq and Syria are pleading for international help to…
By John Piper Being a Christian means experiencing the supernatural every day. Living as new creatures in Christ is amazing beyond calculation (Galatians 6:15). The fact that many believers do not know this, and do not feel as if it were true, does not surprise us, because Paul prayed for believers that we “may know…
By Joyce Meyer Peace is so important. Life isn’t worth living if you don’t have peace. I know what it’s like to live with no peace at all. I grew up in a house that was full of turmoil, and I learned to respond to my frustrations with anger and bitterness and a lot of…
AS PASTORS AND LEADERS, we are deeply disturbed by the escalating conflict within the PC(USA) over the Church’s policies toward Israel/Palestine. Conflict over these issues, of course, is nothing new; what is new is the focus and tone of that conflict. For decades, the PC(USA) has argued passionately over how best to express our opposition…
By Paul De Vries This season of Advent, beginning the first day of December, is full of the JOY of the Lord! What could be more wonderful than the Good News that the Savior is born, that God himself has come to Earth as the Messiah? The great prophesies are fulfilled, including these profound and…
By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) – The World Council of Churches (WCC) urged its Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican member churches on Thursday to lobby their congregations and national governments to support a political solution to the war in Syria. The Geneva-based WCC made the appeal after a meeting with international envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi…