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. Started in the early 1940s, PPF provided support for Presbyterians who were conscientious objectors during the Second World War. In the 1950s PPF worked to oppose the development of nuclear weapons. During the 1960s and the 1970s, members were doing draft resistance counseling and working to end the war in Vietnam. In the 1980s PPF was one of the founding organizations of the US-Soviet Bi-Lateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, leading the

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to become the first major church to endorse the proposal. In the 1990s PPF's work included the

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Third World Debt Relief. Throughout the last several decades, PPF members have worked toward dealing with gun violence and landmines. In 1980, members of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship were instrumental in encouraging the

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to pass the document called �
Peacemaking: The Believers’ Calling
, which initiated the annua
Peacemaking Offering
in many

churches, and established th
Presbyterian Peacemaking Program
of the denomination. More than twenty-five years later, PPF continues to work closely with the PPP. Often the role of the PPF is to push the denomination to new and bolder policies and actions on behalf of peace, while the PPP works within the policies of the denomination. Since the late 1990s, the direction of the PPF has shifted to an emphasis on nonviolent direct action. Current focuses include

gun violence Gun-related violence is violence committed with the use of a firearm. Gun-related violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and ...

prevention, an accompaniment program in Colombia, and advocacy and

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel. Its objective is to pressure Israel to meet what the BDS movement describes as Israel's obligations ...

for justice in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and Palestine. PPF gives out the Peaceseeker Award each year since 1970 to recognized Presbyterians on the front lines of reducing war and violence. In January 2014 PPF led a delegation of 28 Presbyterians to Palestine and

. In 2006 the PPF appointed Rick Ufford-Chase, former Moderator of the

, as its first full-time Executive Director. The organization is managed by a 54-member National Committee and approximately five part-time staff.

External links

Presbyterian Peace FellowshipPresbyterian Peace Fellowship Facebook page2014 Israel/Palestine delegation blog

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{{Reflist Peace organizations based in the United States Calvinist pacifists Presbyterianism in the United States Presbyterian organizations established in the 20th century Christian nonviolence

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