Community of Christ - Human Rights

Church and Christian Leaders of Canada Call for Peace as War in Ukraine Enters its Third Year - The Canadian Council of Churches As the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches on February 24, Christian leaders of Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical, and other faith traditions in Canada, together with the World Evangelical Alliance's Peace & Reconciliation Network, The Evangelical Fellowship of Can...

Check out the World Church Human Rights Team statement on the Israel - Hamas war.

Human Rights Team Statement on Israel-Hamas War | News | Community of Christ The Human Rights Team shared a statement with the church about the Israel-Hamas war. In the statement, the team affirmed World Conference Resolution 1311, "Palestine and Israel," "which affirms God's love for Muslims and Jews, and denounces...

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UN votes Russia out of human rights council citing Bucha killings An overwhelming majority of member countries in the United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from its human rights body following recent killings in Bucha.

This may be dated but it is also timeless.

Not much has changed in 15 years...

Watch the video, watch the entire episode of the show... I dare you...

Make Poverty History Do what they say!!!!! It's important that we all do. (I cut out the condom conversation for all of those who know this episode) Oh, and note, sorry about the...

Human Rights Highlight

Author: Catherine Striley, Human Rights Team member
Date: September 15, 2021
Theme: Human Rights for People Living with a Disability

Are we willing to continue to allow this to be true? People with a disability, compared to those with no disability, are:
• Less likely to receive needed healthcare
• More likely to be depressed
• Less likely to be employed
• More likely to suffer from internal and external stigma
• Less likely to be securely housed
• More likely to be food insecure.

Created in God’s image, how do we allow this systematic discrimination to continue? Can we admit that in our inner thoughts and feelings, we believe and feel that some people are worth less than others? That God’s call on their lives, versus “our” lives, is less important, less essential? Discrimination is so pervasive that is difficult to notice – our implicit bias is so strong and seems so “normal” that we don’t even realize how much we feel that a differing ability makes a person less valuable.

Marginalization for any reason is a problem in our society and a problem for the people of Christ. Are we ready to start addressing this systemic discrimination? In one of our congregations, a young man whose health conditions required use of a wheelchair to get around was ordained to a priesthood office. What ministry options were available to him? Could he get to the lectern, for instance? Could he minister in anyone’s home – or was his opportunity to minister limited by what was accessible to him? Is this the kind of barrier we should tear down? Switching challenges, what would it look like if you were the pastor, and a person in your congregation presented a call to the priesthood for a person with a cognitive disability?

Human rights are rights for all. It is time for us to be proactive in addressing the rights of people living with some type of disability. It is time to think about what it would look like to move towards the Peaceful One in dealing with people with disabilities in our personal feelings, thinking and behavior, and in our corporate settings and behavior.