In 1963, the United Church of Christ (UCC) established the Committee for Racial Justice as the Committee for Racial Justice Now at its Fourth General Synod in Denver. The UCC launched the committee in response to the heightened racial tensions that...

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Christianity: United Church of Christ FOUNDED: 1957 C.E. RELIGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION: .02 percent Overview The United Church of Christ (UCC), founded in the United States in 1957, was the product of four preexisting religious groups:...

The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination principally in the United States, generally considered within the Reformed tradition, and formed in 1957 by the union of two denominations, the Evangelical and Reformed...

A church that is sheltering an illegal immigrant from Mexico and her U.S.-born infant son will be billed nearly $40,000 for the city police presence during a weekend protest, officials said.Mayor Paul Miller, who called United Church of Christ congregants irresponsible for "harboring an illegal...

Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division."Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us...

Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday confronted one of the persistent falsehoods circulating about him on the Internet.He went to church.His attendance here at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, with the news media in tow, was as much an observation of faith as it...

In the constellation of Protestant churches, the United Church of Christ is far from the biggest, wealthiest or best-known.But Democrat Barack Obama is making time in his presidential campaign Saturday to address the denomination he joined two decades ago in Chicago, hoping his presence will...