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PDA Announces New Refugee & Immigrant Advocacy Grant Opportunities
February 26, 2021
People from Cameroon, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo held in immigration detention centers because they put their trust in the U.S. as a place of safety only to be denied due process and ordered deported. Asylum seekers from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and dozens of other countries who were turned back at the U.S. border only now being admitted. Refugees who have been waiting for years overseas to be reunited with their families already resettled in the U.S. The Dreamers and essential workers who long to be fully recognized as the members of our communities that they already are. These are but some of the immigration challenges and opportunities faced by immigrants and Presbyterian allies.
by Rich Copley | Presbyterian News Service
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is joining hundreds of other groups calling for intellectual property rules to be lifted to enable wider distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. (Photo courtesy of the National Cancer Institute via Unsplash)
LEXINGTON, Kentucky â The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness (OPW) is joining more than 400 faith, human rights, civil society, and labor organizations in calling on the administration of President Joe Biden to join a global movement to make COVID-19 vaccines more widely available around the world.
The groups are calling on Biden to reverse the Trump administrationâs opposition to a waiver of World Trade Organization intellectual property rules so that vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests can be more broadly produced and distributed, particularly in developing nations.
The Pro-Democracy Faith Movement
February 18, 2021, 9:31 am Getty/Jim Watson/AFP
An imam holds hands with a Jewish faith leader during a press conference with an interfaith coalition of faith leaders on the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election and rising hate crimes outside the Masjid Muhammad, The Nation s Mosque, in Washington, November 2016.
Sam Hananel
Introduction and summary
This report was developed through a project with Auburn Seminary, which for more than 200 years has equipped leaders of faith and moral courage who are on the front lines fighting for the health and wholeness of U.S. society.
The past year has been an incredible test for American democracy. The coronavirus crisis not only crippled America’s public health and economy, but it also necessitated new ways of voting in a presidential election. This incited new tactics for voter suppression that compounded long-standing efforts to hobble the voting power of communities of color. The electoral p
OPW advocates for United States to restore humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees
February 9, 2021
Action by President Biden would provide vital services and cast US as a âforce for positive changeâ
by Darla Carter | Presbyterian News Service
A boy in a Palestinian camp. (Photo by Rick Jones)
LOUISVILLE â The Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is encouraging the American people to rally behind Palestinian refugees by advocating for the restoration of U.S. funding to a vital humanitarian organization.
The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness (OPW) and Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) are pushing for the restoration of aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The agency helps provide vital services, such as health care, education and emergency food assistance, to Palestinian refugees throughout the Middle East, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.