USA: Presbyterian Church will repent for minority discrimination
The Presbyterian Church of America is considering a draft resolution on repentance for discrimination based on race, religion, skin color, nationality and other sins, reports Sedmitsa.Ru.
As reported, the "Prelude" to Repentance says about "segregation of parishioners by race, prohibition for blacks to join the Church and attend services, church protection of the organizations of white suprematists (professing the superiority of the white race), the sermons of segregation consecrated by the Bible and the struggle of the church against interracial marriages. The Presbyterian Church of America acknowledged that did not struggle enough with the manifestations of obscurantism and racial intolerance among the parishioners." The draft resolution requires the congregation to work intensely for racial reconciliation.
The portal reminds that the path to such reconciliation was chosen in 2002, when the Church recognized "its participation in the racial obscurantism", but only last year at the annual meeting after a heated 9-hour debate, the Church decided to repent.
Read also
DESS: The number of communities joining OCU in 2024 is half of last year’s
Over a year, 232 communities of the UOC changed their jurisdiction.
Scale of internal damage to UOC cathedral in Zaporizhzhia shown online
The video allows viewers to assess the damage endured by the main Orthodox church of the UOC in Zaporizhzhia.
Ex-MP UOC protodeacon Novinsky declared suspicion of high treason
The former MP is accused of "ensuring that a significant part of Ukrainian society, who are believers of the UOC, remain under the direct influence of the leader of the ROC".
St Andrew’s icon survives under the rubble of UOC cathedral in Zaporizhzhia
The icon was painted by nuns of the St Nicholas Monastery in Patras (Greece) and consecrated on the relics of St Andrew the Apostle.
RF missile strike destroys St Andrew's Cathedral of UOC in Zaporizhzhia
The fragments damaged the roof of the building, dome, ceilings, cut windows and disfigured classrooms.
Media shows conditions in which persecuted communities of Volyn have to pray
After their churches were seized, UOC faithful are compelled to pray in poorly equipped facilities.