Giving Tuesday campaign to abolish medical debt also has justice component
The United Church of Christ is committed to using gifts from Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3, to forgive...
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From housing to hair care, new Adese class sees business as force for community uplift
Eleven clergy and laypeople who believe business can be a force for justice have been named to a...
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Conference Ministers tour sacred sites in Alabama in a group commitment to racial justice
Thirty United Church of Christ Conference Ministers, along with national officers John Dorhauer and...
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UCC Conference, congregations raise Thanksgiving gift in three-week campaign to fund Immokalee land buy
The Florida Conference United Church of Christ and its congregations, with support from UCC Justice...
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UCC medical debt recipient pays blessings forward at Thanksgiving
One of the almost 6,000 Chicagoans who had medical debt forgiven by the United Church of Christ...
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Racist Syracuse campus incidents draw statement, offer from UCC New York Conference
Responding to reports of a dozen November incidents of racism at Syracuse University, the New York...
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Massachusetts congregations welcome, support, accompany Honduran family
UCC immigration justice advocates in Massachusetts are putting their faith in action,...
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First Transgender Day of Remembrance service in NW Connecticut draws 70
Back in September, the Rev. Robyn Gray was planning ahead. A new resident of rural Washington,...
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Arizona interfaith prayer service calls for end to criminalization of humanitarian aid to migrants
Religious leaders of several faith traditions united to oppose the criminalization of compassion...
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ONAs have more members, fewer closures than other UCC churches, study finds
Recent United Church of Christ studies show ONA congregations – those that are publicly open and...
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CHHSM joins UCC medical debt abolishment effort
The United Church of Christ effort to relieve thousands of low-income families of medical debt just...
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Church must fight fear and racism with organized love, UCC leader advises German partners
The United States is in danger of abandoning two long-held commitments – welcoming the stranger...
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UCC officers: We celebrate Cally Rogers-Witte
The national officers of the United Church of Christ are mourning the passing of their retired...
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Cally Rogers-Witte, retired Global Ministries and Conference exec, dies at 74
The Rev. Cally Rogers-Witte, a longtime pastor, former Conference Minister and retired national...
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Supreme Court takes up DACA; Dreamers, interfaith allies rally outside
The futures of more than half a million young, undocumented immigrants hang in the balance as the...
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Conference Minister has lived with debt, is ‘thrilled to be part of a solution’
The Rev. Justo Gonzalez saw debt collectors harass his family when he was growing up in a barrio...
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Colorado church gives away piece of its campus for low-income housing units
It dawned on United Church of Christ member Carol Matheis-Kraft that her local government had...
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Northern Virginia refugees supported by ecumenical Homework Club
Volunteers from a United Church of Christ congregation in Annandale, Va., are spending a lot of...
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Commentary: The modern-day peonage of medical debt
Erasing people’s medical debt – as the United Church of Christ and its partners recently did...
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Oregon church sees hosting ‘houseless’ people on its property as Christian duty
A community of more than a dozen people with no place else to live has established a camp on the...
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