BPFNA News & Announcements

BPFNA will host "Peace Breakfasts" at this year's meetings of the American Baptist Churches and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Based on the theme Rejoice in the Spirit, the breakfasts will feature guest speakers, updates from staff, and special music.
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At its May 2009 meeting in Wayne, PA, the BPFNA board of directors has adopted a statement entitled, "US-Sponsored Torture: A Call for a Commission of Inquiry" and encourages its membership to join in support of this effort.
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The board of directors of the BPFNA met May 28-30, 2009, at Central Baptist Church, Wayne, PA.
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Drawing on his years of front-line experience on issues of peace and justice, Father Louie Vitale, co-founder of Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, is speaking in dozens of cities and towns across the US.
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Led by Janet Chisholm, Peace & Training Coordinator at Kirkridge Retreat & Study Center, "Creating a Culture of Peace" is a nonviolence training for personal and social change. The training will be offered at the BPFNA Summer Conference to be held this July in Odgen UT, and again as a three-day intensive training in Charlotte, NC, October 9-11.
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At the start of their two-day event in Washington, DC, representatives of the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq have been granted an audience with an Iraq policy official from the White House.
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While President Obama is holding a nationally televised press conference to mark the 100th day of his administration, hundreds of mostly progressive Christians will be gathered outside the White House risking arrest as they press the president for a quicker end to the war in Iraq.
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The National Council of Churches (USA) Special Commission for the Just Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast has scheduled the third annual Ecumenical Work Week in Gulfport and New Orleans for August 2-8, 2009.
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BPFNA has announced a plan to offer free Summer Conference packages to individuals and churches who sign up ten first-time registrants for this year's gathering.
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The BPFNA Board of Directors seeks input on the latest revision to the organization's vision document, Pathways II: Pathways to Peacemaking. The updated plan is designed to guide BPFNA's work from 2009 to 2013.
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In Elkin, North Carolina, an informal group representing several different denominations has developed a discussion guide that is available for groups to use in a dialogue about war and peace. The document is offered here at no cost.
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National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) lauds President Obama for issuing an Executive Order ending torture, but also expresses caution about the task force established.
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A Baptist delegation will to travel to El Salvador, under the auspices of the SHARE Foundation, as a team of international elections observers for the Salvadoran presidential elections in March 2009. The team will include representatives from BPFNA Partner Congregation Central Baptist of Wayne, PA and is open to any and all interested members of the BPFNA.
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Congregations who are seeking more education about Islam or may be interested in generating some good interfaith dialogue within their communities may wish to take advantage of the films and accompanying dialogue materials available from a project called 20,000 Dialogues.
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BPFNA has adopted this statement to call congregations and individuals to faithfully consider and respond to the Iraq war.
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