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A Statement on Separation of Families at the Border
Download as a pdf document at https://www.pachurches.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Family-Separation-Statement-6-18.pdf. A Statement on the Separation of Families at the Border For the LORD your God… executes justice for the orphan and widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. –Deuteronomy 10:17-19…
Rev. Dr. Albert Myers, Former Director, Reflects on Council Mission
The Council is a collaboration among church bodies with two major emphases: First, Christians desire to be faithful: John 17:20-23 (NIV): “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me…
Pennsylvania Council of Churches’ Statement on 6/18/20 Supreme Court DACA Decision
By: Sandy Strauss The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.—Leviticus 19:34 In a 5-4 ruling on Thursday, June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that the Trump Administration…
2020 Annual Report
REPORT ON THE COUNCIL’S WORK IN 2020 For a longer, more detailed version of this report, click here. The Pennsylvania Council of Churches is church bodies and agencies representing Anabaptist, Episcopal, Orthodox, Pentecostal, and Protestant communions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania working together for Christian unity for the sake of the world. [John 17:23] IMPORTANT…
A Statement on the Events in Charlottesville, VA and Addressing Ideologies of Hate
For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this. — Esther 4:14 (NRSV) The Pennsylvania Council of Churches…
A Pastoral Statement at a Time of Global Pandemic
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.—1 Peter 5:10 (NRSV) We are living in times that test our spirits, patience, and energy. Nothing in ministerial training has prepared leaders for…

