Manuals and policies
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Resolución llamando a un programa exhaustivo de legalización para inmigrantes viviendo y trabajando en los Estados Unidos con Guia de Estudio
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
The study is intended to help the church explore the complex issues regarding immigration and ministry to immigrants.
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Resolution Against Torture
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
The 217th General Assembly (2006) approved the "Resolution on Human Rights in a Time of Terrorism and Torture" and the overture from the Presbytery of San Francisco on "Petitions Against Torture."
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Resolution Calling for a Comprehensive Legalization Program for Immigrants Living and Working in the United States with Study Guide
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic Concerns
The study is intended to help the church explore the complex issues regarding immigration and ministry to immigrants.
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Resolution on Just Peacemaking and the Call for International Intervention for Humanitarian Rescue (1998)
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
This resolution seeks to address the growing assumption and acceptance of the idea that conflicts in the post-cold war era involving either a major violation of basic human rights or a massive degree of human suffering require the response of the international community. Amplified by the immediate nature of television broadcasting, the intensity of such crises as Bosnia, Burma, Haiti, Rwanda, and Somalia call for a Christian response to help alleviate internal upheavals and to undertake humanitarian rescue to relieve suffering and rescue dying human beings.
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Resolution on Restorative Justice
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
This resolution affirms the continued use of restorative justice as the guiding metaphor for the work, program and ministry of the church engaged with the criminal "justice" system. If offers a simple definition of restorative justice as "addressing the hurts and the needs of the victim, the offender, and the community in such a way that all — victim, offender and community — might be healed."
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Resolution on Violence, Religion and Terrorism
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
Our church comes together every two years to discern together how best to live as faithful Christians in the world. We consider resolutions and mandate studies of various issues, which are then passed along to our churches for study and implementation. One such issue was terrorism, which resulted in this resolution, approved by the 216th General Assembly (2004) This resource includes both the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) resolution on terrorism and six lesson plans for its study.
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Resolution on the International Criminal Court
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
This resolution adopted by the 211th General Assembly (1999) affirms the need for international judicial mechanisms for the administration of justice capable of addressing major categories of crime with consistent application for all countries. It calls upon all governments to be diligent in the conduct of affairs, preventing those acts that might constitute offenses of international character as defined by law, holding their own citizens accountable.
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Resolution on the Middle East
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
This report, adopted by the 209th General Assembly, provides a remarkable understanding of peacemaking and justice issues in the Middle East.
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Resolution on the Ministry of Caregiving in Relation to Older Adults
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
This resolution approved by the 213th General Assembly (2001) explores what the ministry of care giving means as the population rapidly ages, especially for those with debilitating and/or fatal illnesses. Recognizing those in our congregations and in the surrounding communities our congregations serve will increasingly need care giving, the resolution makes an urgent call to begin now to develop ways to meet those needs. The church can play a vital role in developing models that provide care giving to all who are in need.
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Revisions and updates to the Together in Service Guidebook
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Presbyterian Women
Though hands-on service is a great way to show God's love, it's nearly impossible to find one project that fits everyone. Together in Service uses the gifts and talents of everyone, no matter what type of service each person can offer.