When the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ holds its 147th annual meeting Friday in Cheshire, it will be asked to consider a resolution calling for the church to divest any investments in companies "profiting from the occupation of the Palestine Territories by the State of Israel."

The resolution, submitted by the board of deacons of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, also calls for church members to boycott Israeli products made in the occupied territories.

It is one of two resolutions that the conference will review, the other being a call to end "mass incarceration for nonviolent offenses," which was submitted by several New Haven churches.

The divestiture resolution states: "Past General Synods have identified the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian land and its human rights abuses committed therein to be a major source of conflict and have called for the end of construction and expansion of settlements," and that "Palestinians in the West Bank have lived since 1967 under Israel military occupation which subjects them to many human rights abuses."

It calls for "the Connecticut Conference to divest any Consolidated Trust Fund holdings in companies profiting from the occupation of the Palestinian Territories by the state of Israel," listing Caterpillar Inc., Motorola Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Development and several other companies as examples of those that would be affected by the action.

It also asks "local church members" to support a boycott of goods produced by Israeli companies in the "occupied Palestinian territories." Examples listed were Ahava skin care products, SodaStream products and Hadiklaim dates.

Steven Jungkeit, senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, acknowledged Thursday that the resolution would be controversial, but said that his congregation proposed it after members made numerous trips to Israel and Palestine through the years.

"We believe it's the right thing to do," Jungkeit said. "It's a tricky issue to talk about, but I think that it's one that we need to raise our voices on."

The Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ is one of 39 regional conferences in the U.S. that makes up the 1.5 million-member United Church of Christ. The Connecticut Conference comprises 253 churches with more than 97,000 members.

Conference officials did not return telephone calls Thursday and could not be reached for comment.

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VILLAGERS are set to take the significant first step in the building of their new church after fundraising for more than a decade.

The community at Crossways has been working together for years to build their own church to house a growing congregation and a special First Turf Turning ceremony will be held to mark the construction finally getting underway.

The building of St Aldhelms Church is expected to be completed by Easter 2015.

Crossways resident Simon Hunt said: This most exciting step marks the beginning of a new chapter in the progress of Crossways parishioners to establish a permanent and lasting base for worship and associated activities. To have reached this point has not been without much effort, hard work and perseverance of many, many people.

Villagers have raised more than 100,000 towards the new church, which will be spent on maintenance and running of the building.

Mr Hunt added that people across the community had been involved, many of whom are a silent majority of stalwarts.

The new building will be sited at land at Frome Valley CE VA First School.

The Reverend Jacquie Birdseye, of the united benefice of Moreton, Woodsford, Crossways and Tincleton, was appointed to oversee the building of the new church around nine years ago.

She is currently on sabbatical until early November.

Planning permission was granted by West Dorset District Council in September last year.

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A quarter of a century has gone by since the Church of the Good Shepherd was established as a parish Oct. 16, 1989, based in the village of Kent in southwestern Indiana County.

As the roughly 800 members of the Roman Catholic parish pause to mark the milestone and celebrate the progress that has been made over the years, it's apparent that some things at the rural church have come full circle.

John Edward Timko of Irwin, the architect who designed the church building, and Msgr. Michael Matusak, who was the first pastor of the parish from its creation until 1997, are among guests expected to return for an Oct 19 Mass and receptions celebrating the Church of the Good Shepherd's 25 years. Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt of the Greensburg Diocese will be the principal celebrant and homilist for the special 2 p.m. Mass.

Greeting those in attendance will be Father William J. Lechnar, administrator of the parish since June 4. The appointment has been a return to familiar territory for Lechnar, who served as a deacon at Good Shepherd in its early days, before his ordination in 1997.

Lechnar recently gathered with some of Good Shepherd's longtime parishioners near the entrance to the church grounds, at one of the treasured landmarks at the site a Blessed Mother shrine. The stone grotto and statue was moved from the former Holy Cross Church in Iselin. Dating from 1908, Holy Cross was one of the earliest houses of worship for local Catholics and one three churches that formed the basis of the current Good Shepherd parish.

It was the first statue I ever blessed as a deacon, Lechnar noted of the figure of the Blessed Mother at Good Shepherd. I never dreamed I'd be back here as administrator of the parish.

It came over on a lowboy, parishioner Harry Baroni, 90 of Center Township, said of the shrine, recalling that a section of the crescent-shaped stone structure was temporarily removed so that it could make the trip on the trailer.

Other shrines along the lane leading to the Church of the Good Shepherd represent the former parish church of St. Gertrude in McIntyre and its mission church, St. Anthony in Aultman, both established in 1918.

Changing populations and mounting maintenance concerns after the better part of a century of service were among factors that eventually prompted suppression of the Iselin and McIntyre parishes to allow formation of the combined Church of the Good Shepherd Parish.

Good Shepherd parishioner Beth Marshall of Kent, who used to attend the McIntyre church, pointed out that none of the three older churches was handicapped-accessible and that needed upgrades would have cost about $500,000.

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