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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.
The Shining Waters Regional Council (SWRC) Meeting theme for this past year was “Sanctuary: Towards a Kindom of Peace, Justice and Reconciliation”. This has been a challenging three years for the regional council, communities of faith and The United Church of Canada. We continue to walk through the post-pandemic reality together. It has taken many months for many communities of faith to recover from the challenges of the pandemic, with many other communities facing a new reality. The pandemic did afford opportunity for many communities of faith to experiment and meet in new and innovative ways, including continuing hybrid worship and meetings.
