News By ELCA content editors and Religion News Service Photo: Courtesy of Karen Anderson
Advocating for women’s health
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton (fourth from right) stands with Chilean health promoters and ELCA staff in front of a local mural exposing the realities of violence against women. In December, Eaton and other ELCA leaders visited with members of the Educación Popular en Salud (Popular Education for Health) team and recently trained advocates for ending violence against women. Their ministry, which receives funding from the ELCA, has been responding to the health needs of marginalized communities in Chile for 35 years.
ELCA co-sponsors racial justice gathering
An ELCA delegation, led by Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, participated in the Conference of National Black Churches annual gathering in Charleston, S.C., Dec. 13-15. The ELCA is a co-sponsor of the conference’s cross-racial
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dialogue, now in its second year. In her remarks, Eaton described the ELCA’s efforts to address racial justice, including the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly commitment to increasing ethnic diversity and the capacity of people of color for leadership roles in the ELCA.
Churches offer sanctuary to immigrants
About 450 churches nationwide have offered to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants, according to leaders of the Sanctuary Movement. If Donald Trump follows through on his presidential campaign pledge to deport millions of people in the country illegally, houses of worship of various denominations have vowed to offer living space or other assistance. Of the relationship between majority-Latino and majority-white congregations, ELCA pastor Alexia Salvatierra told The New York Times: “We don’t need the white people to rescue us. … We need to be in partnership.”
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