El Reverendo Gradye Parsons, Secretario Permanente de la Asamblea General de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.), envió una carta al presidente Barack Obama el 7 de Marzo, alentándolo a participar en la firma de un acuerdo internacional sobre el cambio climático.
El acuerdo de Paris, aprobado en diciembre del 2015 por casi 200 miembros en la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el cambio climático será firmado el 22 de abril. El secretario general de la ONU Ban Ki-Moon es el anfitrión de la ceremonia de firma en la ciudad de Nueva York.
미국 장로교 총회 정서기가 대통령에게 기후 변화 협약서에 서명할 것을 촉구하다
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미국 장로교 총회 정서기인 그래디 파슨스가 바락 오바마 대통령에게 기후 변화에 대한 국제 협약 서명 의식에 참석할 것을 촉구하는 편지를 3월 7일에 발송했다.
2015년 12월에 기후 변화에 대한 유엔 기본 협정에서 거의 200여 관련국들에 의해 승인된 파리 협약이 4월 22일에 서명될 것이다. 반기문 유엔 사무총장이 뉴욕에서 서명 의식을 주관할 것이다.
기후 변화에 대한 유엔 기본 협정 21세기 관련국 컨퍼런스 (COP)에서 파리 협정이 만들어졌고, 이것은 산업화 이전 수준으로부터 2도 이상 상승하지 않도록 하는 범위 내에서 온실가스 배출량을 유지해야 할 필요성을 선언하고 있다.
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The Reverend Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), issued a letter to Barack Obama March 7, encouraging the president to participate in the signing of an international agreement on climate change.
The Paris Agreement, passed in December 2015 by nearly 200 parties at the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change, will be signed April 22. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is hosting the signing ceremony in New York City.
장로교인들이 오바마 대통령과 행정부에 중앙 아메리카에서 온 어머니들 및 어린이들에 대한 무단 침입과, 그들의 구류, 그리고 생명의 위협을 받는 상황으로 그들을 다시 돌려보내는 추방을 중단해 줄 것을 담대하고 분명한 어조로 요청하고 있다.
In bold and clear language, Presbyterians are calling on President Barack Obama and his administration to end raids on mothers and children from Central America, their detention, and their ultimate deportation back to life-threatening situations.
“Right now, young mothers and children are being rounded up by immigration officials in cities across the country,” the Reverend Alison Harrington, pastor of Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, said via the online faith-based justice community Groundswell.
The Rev. Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is urging people to personally engage Congress about Syria and to pray.
On May 6, 2013, the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, the Rev. Gradye Parsons, sent a letter to President Barack Obama expressing concern over the latest developments in Syria with regard to recent Israeli air attacks, and urging the international community not to exacerbate this tragedy.
The Stated Clerk cited actions of the 220th General Assembly (2012), which called for “a mediated process of cessation of violence by all perpetrators, including the Assad regime and armed opposition groups,” as well as for “all outside parties to cease all forms of intervention in Syria.”
Heartened by his inaugural calls for gay marriage and for bold action on climate change, leaders of the Christian left are confident that President Obama will now claim the progressive legacy they believe he craves.
President Obama’s support among Catholic voters has surged since June, according to a new poll, despite a summer that included the Catholic bishops’ religious freedom campaign and the naming of Rep. Paul Ryan, a Catholic, as the GOP’s vice-presidential candidate.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, says it’s not his job to defend his Christian faith against doubters who suspect he’s Muslim. His Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, says religion is “integral” to his life, even as often he avoids mentioning his Mormon faith by name. In interviews published Aug. 21 by Cathedral Age, the magazine of the Washington National Cathedral, the candidates responded in writing to nine questions about their faith.