UCC seeking $50,000 in contributions to mount public response to Arizona’s racial profiling law May 18, 2010
The United Church of Christ is launching a fundraising effort to raise $50,000 to mount a public response to Arizona’s stringent immigration law, enacted April 23, that makes racial profiling permissible by allowing police to detain those of Hispanic origin suspected of being undocumented immigrants.
Arizona immigration legislation elicits widespread protest May 14, 2010
A diverse array of protests, boycotts and de-facto economic sanctions have been levied against Arizona and it's businesses in the wake of Gov. Jan Brewer's April 23 signature of SB 1070, a bill that makes it illegal not to carry immigration documents and broadens law enforcement powers in immigation matters.
Worship service lifts up Asian Heritage Month May 12, 2010
"We are often in conversation with one another, and we know that God is still speaking to us," the Rev. Joan Ishibashi told worshipers May 12 at a service titled "Building Bridges: Interfaith Encounters With God," held in the Amistad Chapel of the UCC’s national headquarters. "But even God is silent sometimes. There is truth in silence as well as in speech."
Sacred Conversation on Race: The journey continues May 4, 2010
As the United Church of Christ commemorates the second anniversary of Sacred Conversation on Race, the Rev. Karen Georgia Thompson, minister for racial justice, is pleased with the engagement this initiative has inspired across the life of the church.
UCC leadership encourages immigration reform, blasts Ariz. law April 30, 2010
In a statement issued April 30, UCC General Minister and President the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black and Executive Minister for Justice and Witness Ministries the Rev. Linda M. Jaramillo, called Arizona's new immigration legislation "nothing less than a modern day Jim Crow law."
UCC leaders applaud presidential order on patient visitation April 16, 2010
UCC leaders have issued a statement following President Obama's order requiring hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid to allow patients to designate visitors and respect durable power of attorney directives.
UCC, Disciples leaders respond to Palestinian peace document April 6, 2010
Leaders of the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) have put forth a joint pastoral response to what is being called the Palestine 'Kairos' document.
N.H. Conference advocates Nuclear Test Ban Treaty March 25, 2010
As the United States and Russia draw close to a new agreement that would replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) arms-control agreement, which expired in December 2009, the UCC in New Hampshire has called for an all-out ban on nuclear testing.
