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Broadview Magazine, an important voice for faith and justice in the United Church, has suffered substantial cuts to both its funding and advertising revenue.
We believe all peoples of the world, including Indigenous people, deserve freedom, peace, justice and self-determination, and that our calling as people of faith is to support such rights.
Israel continues to use administrative detention as a provision of its military law to detain thousands of Palestinians (including hundreds of children).
According to Health Canada, from coast to coast, across Canada, 21 people per day died due to a toxic drug overdose. At the same time provincial governments across the country, in particular British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario have vowed, or began the process, to close life-saving harm reduction services like safe consumption sites/consumption and treatment services.
The United Church of Canada, trusting in the value and dignity of all as creations of the Holy One, supports equal rights and the rule of law, including international law.
Many United Church people are concerned about what is happening under Israel’s military occupation of Palestine. Yet they take no action over fear that they will be or be accused of being antisemitic.
In response to the deteriorating human rights situation there, the United Church of Canada has spoken out about the plight of Palestinians frequently over the decades. One of the actions it has recommended is that faith communities and United Church entities holding investment funds take economic and other measures to draw attention to the occupation of Palestinian lands, and in particular, to illegal settlements.
