United Church of Christ


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United Church of Christ

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(Christian Churches, other) a US Protestant denomination formed in 1957 from the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Church
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Noun1.United Church of Christ - merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1957
Protestant denomination - group of Protestant congregations
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John United Church of Christ, 309 Fifth St., Aurora, will hold its monthly Community Clothes Closet from 9 a.m.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a pastor of United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) in Antipas, North Cotabato on Friday, police said.
Dillinger has been with Pilgrim United Church of Christ for about three years, and he is happy to say that they are now one of the newest churches in Wichita, making one of the 27% of congregations in the U.S., that is a part of the largest church movement welcoming the LGBT community.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, July 3, 2017 (WAFA) - Delegates at the 31st General Synod of the United Church of Christ in Baltimore, Maryland, voted overwhelmingly on Sunday night - 79% yes, 13% no, 9% abstain - in favor of a resolution which calls on the State of Israel to guarantee basic due process rights and exercise an absolute prohibition against torture and ill-treatment of detained Palestinian children, according to a press release.
Another member church, the United Church of Christ in the Philippines' Southeast Mindanao Jurisdictional Area, called for vigilance in these critical times.
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Traci Blackmon is acting executive minister of the United Church of Christ's Justice and Witness Ministries.
The United Church of Christ, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States, on Tuesday voted to divest from companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and to boycott goods made in Israeli settlements, underscoring the growing momentum of using boycott and divestment as a means against Israeli policy.
He was ordained in 1946, served Congregational and United Church of Christ congregations in OH; NH (Newport); MA (Boylston, Stoughton, Middleboro, Newburyport).
North Carolina's same-sex marriage ban is the target of a federal lawsuit by the United Church of Christ (UCC), which argues its clergy have a religious freedom right to marry same-sex couples.
The Parkside Community Church, United Church of Christ, in Sacramento, California has had an ongoing Tai Chi class meeting twice a week for approximately ten years using the Faith Community Nurse and a volunteer as leaders.
She went beyond mere criticism of the Rev Wright's words to a condemnation of the Trinity United Church of Christ itself: "I would not have stayed in that church.

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