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More Messages to Congress and Other 2021 Highlights

October 29, 2021

GBCS board hears reports, approves budget at its Oct. 21 virtual meeting.

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Director for Economic, Health, and Gender Justice

October 28, 2021

GBCS seeks a highly skilled professional to lead the programmatic team to advance economic justice, guarantee access to affordable equitable health care, and to advance the rights of women and children.

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Visits Simpson Chapel

October 27, 2021

The spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide stops in DC on US trip.

The Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe, general secretary, General Board of Church and Society, welcomes His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during a reception at Simpson Chapel in the United Methodist Building. Photo by Amber Gaines/GBCS

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United Methodists Support Investigation of Abuses in the Philippines

October 13, 2021

Church leaders, groups under attack for advocating for poor and Indigenous communities

Indigenous children displaced by paramilitary violence attend school in a makeshift classroom in a church compound in Davao in 2016, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Hundreds of Indigenous were living in the church center, afraid to return home.

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The Traumatic Legacy of Indigenous Boarding Schools

October 7, 2021

Recognizing grief over historic wrongs and using truth to heal

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Tell Congress to support Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy

October 6, 2021

We have a responsibility and opportunity to advocate alongside Native peoples in support of examining fully and truthfully U.S policies that codified and encouraged these immoral actions.

Capt. Richard Henry Pratt served as the head of the Carlisle Industrial School, where Native Americans were sent. Photograph  Courtesy of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1900 (undated)

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Sacred Worth Books Highlight: We Move Together by Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, and Eduardo Trejo

October 5, 2021

Recognize National Disability Employment Awareness Month by reading a great book with the kids in your life.

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Sacred Worth Database Redesign!

October 4, 2021

Expansion of database offers more titles and new user-friendly functions

Sacred Worth Books Database Update!

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Remembering Native American Victims of U.S. schools

September 28, 2021

United Methodist Leaders Decry Church Sponsorship of U.S. Abusive "Indian Boarding Schools" and Call for Remembrance of Victims and Survivors

"While authorized and primarily funded by government, some of these schools were also sponsored or operated by religious organizations, including several with Methodist affiliations.”

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Statement on Haitian Deportations

September 27, 2021

Recent actions by the U.S. government against Haitians at the border are inhumane and contrary to church teachings