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May 10, 2024
May 9th, 2024 Dear President Biden, We write to express our deep concern regarding the plight of the Cuban people. The combined effects of failed U.S. foreign policies and Cuban economic policies have created dire humanitarian conditions on the island. It is crucial for your administration to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism… Read more »
August 9, 2023
This article was researched and written by Madalyn Sailors, our 2023 Summer Fellow for International Issues In July, the Mexican government continued its efforts to hold U.S. gun manufacturers responsible for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels across the U.S.-Mexico border. It urged a U.S. appeals court to revive a $10 billion lawsuit… Read more »
August 8, 2023
For God calls us to walk by faith, not by sight. What follows is a testament to the faith, dedication, and selflessness PC(USA) Mission Co-Workers Nancy and Shelvis Smith-Mathers have toward working tirelessly to end the current crisis in South Sudan. We walked into the meetings not knowing what to expect. Usually, when we present… Read more »
May 17, 2023
On May 11, the Biden administration lifted the Title 42 rule that has governed U.S. asylum policy for more than three years. Title 42 was a COVID era policy that excluded migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. While Title 42 is changing, the administration’s approach to migration is not. The administration continues to pair expanded… Read more »
April 18, 2023
By Jimmie Hawkins The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has empowered the Office of Public Witness to provide a ministry of advocacy on the federal level on both international and domestic policy positions. The Office of Public Witness serves as a resource for Presbyterians to lift a prophetic voice addressing issues of injustice globally. In Washington, OPW engages with… Read more »
March 31, 2023
It has happened again! This time the city of Nashville has been added to the list of cities and universities that have had to endure the unimaginable pain of losing loved ones to gun violence. It is unthinkable that six children of God were murdered at Covenant Presbyterian Church: The Covenant School. Just last month… Read more »
March 13, 2023
March 13, 2023 Dear President Biden, As national religious denominations and faith-based organizations in the United States with ties to Cuban religious communities and the Cuban people, we write to express our deep concern for the effects that current U.S. policy is having across Cuba – on our Cuban partners and the general population. We… Read more »
March 13, 2023
March 10, 2023 Dear President Biden and Members of Congress, We write to you as leaders of U.S.-based Christian churches, agencies, and organizations committed to seeking a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis. Our institutions have been deeply involved in this pursuit for decades, inspired by the call and promise of Jesus Christ who said,… Read more »
February 23, 2023
The Biden administration has issued a proposed administrative rule that will effectively bar most of the migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border from asylum. Under the rule, a migrant who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization and who did not seek asylum in a third country that they traveled through on the way to… Read more »
January 5, 2023
By Lucy McDermott, Young Adult Volunteer “13 Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy… Read more »
