4/14/2018 2:10:00 PM “Give God no rest” (Isaiah 62:6-7) until that day when “the wolf and the lamb shall feed together. … They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord” (Isaiah 65:25) (ELCA social statement, “For Peace in God’s World”). In recent days we have witnessed, with additional horror, […]
4/8/2017 4:30:00 PM CHICAGO – The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has issued a pastoral message on Syria. Eaton’s message follows. Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Like many of you, I have been deeply troubled by the news this week from Syria. First, there was […]
June 20th was World Refugee Day Please Email your members of Congress. Ask them to support humanitarian funding for the crisis in Syria. The conflict in Syria, in its fifth year, has become a protracted civil war with an enormous humanitarian cost. Children are among the main casualties of the Syrian humanitarian crisis, making up […]