Member Church News: Learning, Memorials, Elections

Last week about 250 students and 50 counselors participated in the 54th Biblical Theology Seminar at the Chunghwa Telecom Kaohsiung Training Institute (in Taiwan).

In his 2017 Survival Day Message, Uniting Church in Australia President Stuart McMillan calls on all Australians to mark January 26 with respect and honour for the First Peoples of this nation.

Thomas K. Oommen has been elected, with an overwhelming majority, as the new Moderator of the Church of South India in the 35th session of the Synod meetings.

Rolf Wischnath, in a post at Reformiert Info, asks, “Do I have to like Luther in Luther’s year?”

Around 1600 participants are expected at the Calvin Symposium on Worship at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary (in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) which runs through Saturday.

National and regional leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) converged on Santa Fe, New Mexico, to join in the observance and celebration of the 150th anniversary of First Presbyterian Church.

A week of events is being held throughout Scotland from Sunday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

The Evangelical Synod National in Syria and Lebanon hosted high-level delegation from the American church organization “Out Reach Foundation.”