PPF Executive Director recently had the opportunity to discuss our approach to nonviolence in relation to immigration, Israel/Palestine, and other issues on God Complex Radio with Carol Howard Merritt and Derrick Weston.

Click here to listen in to the full episode.

The youth from the Four Church Youth Group in Rockland County, New York created the following thoughts on violence. The sponsoring churches of this project are Germonds Presbyterian, New Hempstead Presbyterian, Stony Point Presbyterian, and Central Presbyterian in Haverstraw, and it was written by Susan Zollinger with the help of Teo Ufford-Chase.

Late last week we received an urgent communication from the Rev. Jairo Barriga of the Presbytery of the North Coast in Colombia concerning the murder on April 12, 2013, of a young man, Narciso Enrique Teherán Mejia. His murder followed a series of death threats and paramilitary operations in an area called El Tamarindo in the municipality of Galapa, near the city of Barranquilla. Please read the background, and then take the action described below.

Please sign this petition from the PC(USA) Office of Public Witness.