Exploring Stakeholder: "United Church of Canada"

The 2023 National Indigenous Spiritual Gathering will take place in Treaty 6 Territory in Edmonton from July 27 through July 30. The theme is “Our Strong Voices.” We will hear from Moderator Carmen Lansdowne in a keynote address on Friday, July 28. Other program elements include panel and audience discussions of the national drug use...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) released 94 Calls to Action in June 2015 “to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation.” The Calls to Action provide multiple opportunities to address and overcome more than a century of systemic discrimination and abuse in the residential school system,...

The United Church, as an active member of KAIROS, has been an advocate for the adoption and implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for many years.  A UN Declaration Task Group was formed in December 2015 to 1) develop the statement issued on March 31, 2016, and a format...

Today we embrace the opportunity that Call to Action #48 offers faith communities to work for reconciliation and to fully respect the human rights and dignity of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Signed by: Anglican Church of Canada Christian Reformed Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada The Presbyterian Church in Canada Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)...

The Gifts with Vision giving catalogue offers several gift opportunities that support community-led language and cultural revitalization, and reconciliation programs....

The Mission & Service fund supports many aspects of Indigenous ministries and justice. Programs like Wampum and Neechi have brought together Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth to sow seeds of friendship and right relations....

The Church Parties are: The Anglican Church of Canada, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Roman Catholic Entities Parties to the Settlement Agreement, The United Church of Canada and the Jesuits of English Canada The Church Parties to the Settlement Agreement welcome the Commissioners’ call to the parties to the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement for...

The Anglican Church of Canada, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Roman Catholic Entities Parties to the Settlement Agreement, The United Church of Canada and the Jesuits of English Canada make the following statement in response to the findings and Calls to Action issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. It is with gratitude and humility that we...

“Response of the Churches to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada” states: As individual churches and in shared interfaith and ecumenical initiatives – for example through Kairos, through interfaith groups, and through the Canadian Council of Churches – we will continue to foster learning about and awareness of the reality and legacy of the residential...

In February 2015 the United Church released a statement that acknowledges its complicity in the denigration of Aboriginal wisdom and spirituality: Affirming Other Spiritual Paths (see http://www.united-church.ca/social-action/justice-initiatives/apologies). The document contained a number of statements made by the United Church over the past several decades affirming the inherent validity of diverse spiritual traditions. The resource Circle and Cross: Dialogue Planning...

In 2012, the Executive of the General Council of The United Church of Canada passed a motion denouncing the Doctrine of Discovery, and initiated a process of discerning how its own values, actions, policies and structures continue to be informed by the Doctrine of Discovery. This resulted in a resource-development workshop in August 2015, and...

The Justice and Reconciliation Fund provides support of $100,000 each year to community projects that foster awareness, dialogue, and relationship-building between Indigenous and non- Indigenous peoples....

Healing Fund, which provides $300,000 in annual funding support to Aboriginal community-based healing projects....

The Healing Fund established in 1994 offers financial support to grassroots projects that focus on healing, language learning, and cultural restoration. Projects must be connected to the continuing need for healing from the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools system Justice and Reconciliation Fund will support projects or events with one or more of the...