Top PC(USA) News of the Week

Week of April 13 - 17

Unification Commission, A Corp Board unanimously recommend balanced unified budgets for 2027 and 2028 The budget proposals, which await approval by the 227th General Assembly, are for $90.5 million in 2027 and $97.9 million in 2028

Haitian immigrants win bipartisan victory in Congress but still need faith-based allies as legislation heads to the Senate House vote followed Presbyterian Hunger Program webinar that explained the importance of Temporary Protected Status and lifted up Springfield, Ohio

A Purple People Eater and celebrated jurist speaks at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis Retired Justice Alan Page appears as part of Westminster Town Hall Forum’s ‘Ethics Still Matter’ series

A path forward in Cuba A former Obama advisor and a Cuban-American political analyst and writer deliver perspectives and prescriptions for easing enormous human suffering 90 miles from the US

A conversation about hope Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and its ecumenical partners offer a webinar on how faith communities can work to prevent suicide

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byFaith Magazine - The Spiritual Discipline of Remembering

April 18, 2026

1980 General Assembly in Savannah, Georgia The Spiritual Discipline of Remembering Saturday Spotlight: PCA Administrative Committee "Forgetting" is one of the most underestimated dangers in the life of God's people. Throughout Scripture, the Lord warns his people against it. Israel forgot God's deliverance and turned to idols. The Psalmist exhorts his own heart and his hearers’: "Forget not all his benefits" (Ps. 103:2). The Lord's Supper is Christ’s recurring provision against the slow drift of forgetfulness. Wayne Sparkman has spent nearly thirty years as director of the PCA Historical Center thinking about what it means to remember well. "Our task is to make a record of what God has done and is doing among His people," he said. "It is as simple as that." Simple, but not small. The Historical Center houses one of the largest archives devoted to American Presbyterianism including records from six denominations, manuscript collections from over a hundred individuals, and congregational histories spanning more than seven hundred churches. Together, these materials bear witness to God's guidance. Read the Full Article Here

RNS Morning Report - House passes rare bipartisan bill to protect Haitians from deportation

Haitian immigrants in the US As a kid, RNS national reporter Fiona André spent summers visiting family members in Spring Valley, a village of around 33,000 residents in Rockland County, New York that’s home to a thriving Haitian community. While most arrived in the 1980s, fleeing dictatorship, some moved recently, fleeing Haiti’s rampant gang violence. But in the past year, the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants raised concerns in this little community, which they often discuss on parish steps after the Sunday Creole Mass and at local Haitian bakeries. Granted in 2010, after a deadly earthquake struck the island, TPS has allowed nearly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S. André has spent the past year interviewing Haitian faith leaders in New York, Miami, Boston and Springfield, Ohio to understand how the loss of the status would affect their communities. She’s also covered multiple lawsuits challenging DHS’ decision. One of these suits is now with the Supreme Court as the House passed a bipartisan bill to protect Haitians’ TPS, highlighting Republicans’ divisions over the president’s immigration agenda. Read André’s story about how Haitian pastors from across the country traveled to Washington D.C. to gain congressional support for the bill. Top Stories House passes rare bipartisan bill to protect Haitians from deportation (RNS) — The bill is now heading to the Senate, and President Donald Trump announced he would veto it if it reached his desk. Pope Leo XIV arrives in Angola, where oil wealth and mass poverty collide NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The pontiff’s visit to oil-rich Angola is expected to address inequality, youth unemployment and the church’s role in a country still shaped by war and Catholic colonialism. A rural college uses ancient Islamic archives to reconnect students to African legacy (RNS) — Seeing handwritten works on law, theology, astronomy and other subjects challenges the narrative that enslaved Africans arrived in the US with little education or scholarly traditions. Carnegie Hall to present concert celebrating Hindu devotional singing in the West NEW YORK (RNS) — The event will take place exactly 100 years after Paramahansa Yogananda's first appearance at Carnegie Hall. Opinion If the White House Faith Office sent a memo to the president (RNS) — It would look like this. The idolator-in-chief plays savior while the pope chooses prophecy (RNS) — One man seemed to imagine himself as Jesus. The other one simply tried to act like him.   ICYMI When Trump’s satire hits too close to home for American Christians, Antichrist claims emerge (RNS) — ‘Throughout both of Trump’s terms, he’s done so many things that I thought were going to be over the line, and it never happens,’ said Matthew Sutton, a scholar of religious history at Washington State University. ‘But this moment, it does feel like a turning point.’ Trump slammed the first US pope. The country’s bishops now appear more united than ever. (RNS) — Over nearly the last year, the bishops have gradually ramped up a forceful and united defense of the American pope’s critiques of Trump administration policies. Support Our Work As a nonprofit newsroom that covers all faiths, RNS sits uniquely at the intersection of freedom of the press and freedom of religion. News tips or feedback? Email comments@religionnews.com. Like the Morning Report? Share it with a friend. Forwarded this newsletter? Subscribe here. We rely on reader donations to power our reporting. Donate here. Or send a check to: Religion News Foundation PO Box 1808 Columbia, MO 65205

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