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• February 3, 2012

  Notes about people

  From General Assembly Mission Council—Presbyterian News Service

  The Rev. John L. McCullough has been re-elected to lead the global humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) as executive director and CEO for four more years.

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• February 3, 2012

  As missionary movement turns 200, questions for the future

  From Religion News Service

  SALEM, Mass.—

  When America’s first ordained missionaries sailed from here to India 200 years ago, they kicked off a movement to spread the faith and created America’s most potent export: Christianity.

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• February 3, 2012

  China frees underground church leader

  From Ecumenical News International

  New York—

  The deputy chief of an underground network of Protestant churches who was arrested in China last year and sent to a labor camp has been “unexpectedly” released, Christian rights organizations said on Jan. 24.

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• February 3, 2012

  Grants still available for 'communities of theological friendship'

  Opportunity for pastoral leaders to form groups of theological reflection and prayer

  From General Assembly Mission Council—Theology and Worship

• February 3, 2012

  Commission proposes non-geographic presbyteries

  Sweeping change is seen as part of a “season of reflective experimentation”

  From General Assembly Mission Council—Presbyterian News Service

• February 3, 2012

  Read your own story into the Bible story, APCE told

  RCA’s George Brown Jr. named educator of the year

  From General Assembly Mission Council—Presbyterian News Service

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• Support Democracy and Human Rights in the Congo!

  Published February 3, 2012

  From our partners in the PC(USA) Office of Public Witness

  Please contact your members of congress and urge them to work vigorously to ensure that the United States supports democracy and human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo!

  The State Clerk of the General Assembly stated the following in a statement of concern this week:

  The Presbyterian Church (USA) is deeply concerned about the recent elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo and, in particular, the physical and emotional trauma that has been inflicted on the Congolese people as a result of political violence. Our church has had ...

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  From Swords into plowshares

• Pray for peace conference in South Sudan

  Published February 3, 2012

  A prayer request from one of our church partners in South Sudan.
  The Rev. John Phillip Omot, Peace and Justice Officer for the Greater Upper Nile, asks us to pray for Murle Anuak Peace Conference being facilitated by the council and RECONCILE which is taking place in Juba, South Sudan on February 3-4. Rev. Omot asks for prayers that the negotiations will have fruitful results and peace may be established. He further asks for prayers that God would convict those who are trying to disrupt the peace process to have a change of heart and to work for peace.

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  From Swords into plowshares

• Statement on the School Bombing in Southern Kordofan, February 2, 2012

  Published February 2, 2012

  Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  February 2, 2012

  I am outraged by the Sudan Armed Forces’ heinous bombing yesterday of a school run by Samaritan’s Purse in the Nuba Mountains region of Southern Kordofan.  It was the first day of school, and the campus was full of students, teachers, and families.  While miraculously no one was killed, this attack—involving eight bombs dropped from the air—underscores the viciousness of Sudan’s ongoing military campaign in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states.

  This conflict is now affecting more than 500,000 people ...

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  From Swords into plowshares

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