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Presbyterian Churches Lead Gun Violence Awareness Actions

Thursday, December 14, 2017 is Gun Violence Awareness Day. It is also the fifth anniversary of the shooting deaths of 20 first graders and six school staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,…

Statement on Moving US Embassy to Jerusalem

We are heartbroken and angry at Trump’s announcement Wednesday that he plans to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, declaring Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. There are no embassies in Jerusalem, because the…

Legislation Targeting Support for Palestinian Human Rights is a Threat to Free Speech

A message from faith communities in the United States (This ad ran in the Kansas City Star on November 7, 2017): We, the undersigned, are members of faith communities in the United States whose congregations…

PPF Trains Accompaniers Still Needed in Colombia

By John Turnbull Over some alternately stormy and surprisingly warm 72 hours in Chicago, six trainees completed the latest Colombia accompaniment training and discernment retreat. Participants from the Presbyteries of Chicago and Sacramento stayed at…

September 19, 2017
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Immigration, Interfaith Network for Justice in Palestine 2017, Israel Palestine, Undoing Racism

Broad Progressive Coalition Marches on UN to Protest Netanyahu-Trump Alliance

Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump’s addresses to the UN General Assembly, over 200 New Yorkers from a broad coalition of progressive movements - led by American Muslims for Palestine-NJ, Jewish…

PPF Statement on North Korea and Charlottesville

We are called to be makers of peace even and perhaps most especially in a world of hatred and violence, bombastic rhetoric, and overwhelming vitriol. As followers of the One we call Christ, we know…

July 27, 2017
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Interfaith Network for Justice in Palestine 2017, Israel Palestine

Interfaith Delegation Highlights Real Challenges of Peacemaking

The landmark interfaith delegation to Israel/Palestine which the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship helped coordinate and sponsor with Jewish Voice for Peace and American Muslims for Palestine has run into some challenges. Five members of the delegation were denied entry to…

July 24, 2017
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Interfaith Network for Justice in Palestine 2017, Israel Palestine

Jewish, Muslim & Christian Leaders Denied Entry to Israel for Supporting Palestinian Human Rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 24, 2017 Contacts: Aric Clark, aricclark33@gmail.com, (503) 810-2395 Shannan Vance-Ocampo, shannan@shannanvo.com, (732) 895-9083 Five leaders on an interfaith delegation to Israel/Palestine were refused permission to board their plane in the United States, in…

The Creation Justice Work Group of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Needs your Help

We would like you to approach your Synod, Presbytery and Congregation and ask them to divest from Fossil Fuels. This seems to us a next step because, as the rationale to the Synod of the…

“No Guns in God’s House” Sign Project Launched for Presbyterian Congregations

Posted on the massive Fourth Presbyterian Church on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile is a simple sign that says: No Gun’s in God’s House. A similar sign marks the entrance at the Trinity Presbyterian Church in suburban…