Newsline Church of Brother
Nuwamba 1, 2010
“Kuma ana shuka girbin adalci cikin salama ga masu yin salama” (Yakubu 3:18).
Babban sakatare na Cocin Brethren Stan Noffsinger na daya daga cikin shugabannin kiristoci da suka gana da shugaba Barack Obama a yammacin yau, 1 ga watan Nuwamba. Fadar White House ta gayyaci tawagar shugabannin dariku masu alaka da Majalisar Coci ta kasa (NCC) da Cocin World Church. Sabis (CWS) a cikin bikin shekaru 100 na ecumenism a Amurka.
“Wani lamari ne! Ba wai taron jin daɗi ne kawai ba, yana da ma'ana," in ji Noffsinger a wata hira ta wayar tarho bayan taron. “Mun ziyarci makiyaya sosai. Babu bangaranci. Mun kasance a wurin a matsayin masu imani.”
Yayin da aka buɗe taron, a matsayin hanyar amincewa da alama rashin wayewa yayin da ƙasar ke magance batutuwa, Wesley S. Granberg-Michaelson na Cocin Reformed a Amurka ya karanta nassi daga Yakubu 3:16-18. Bisa gayyatar da shugaban kasar ya yi masa, an kammala taron da addu’a karkashin jagorancin Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt Jr. na Cocin Kirista Methodist Episcopal Church.
"Mun saita mataki da nassi kuma mun rufe da addu'a." Noffsinger ya ce.
Shugabannin addinin Kirista sun godewa shugaba Obama bisa tsantsar cudanya da al'ummar addini, da kuma amincewa da dokar kawo sauyi a fannin kiwon lafiya, tare da matsa masa lamba kan ya dauki mataki mai karfi a madadin mutanen da ke fuskantar fatara da yunwa.
Kungiyar ta bukaci shugaban kasar da ya ba da fifiko kan batutuwa da dama da suka hada da karfafa tsarin tsaron kasar nan; fadada fa'idodin rashin aikin yi yayin da tattalin arzikin ke ci gaba da tabarbarewa; fitar da mutane daga kangin talauci tare da mai da hankali kan samar da ayyukan yi ga wadanda ke cikin talauci, horar da ayyukan yi, da ilimi; Zaman lafiya a Gabas ta Tsakiya; da kuma alakar Amurka da Kuba, inda ta bukaci shugaban kasar da ya dage haramcin balaguro daga Amurka zuwa Cuba domin kungiyoyi na Amurka kamar Cocin World Service su taimaka wa majami'u da al'ummomi a wurin.
A taron da suka yi a jajibirin zaben tsakiyar wa’adi, shugabannin addinin Kirista sun kuma jaddada bukatar yin aiki tare domin moriyar jama’a tare da yin magana kan ikon da coci-coci ke da shi na jagoranci da ruguza katangar rarrabuwar kawuna.
Noffsinger ya ce "Kusan a cikin kowace fitowar da muka shimfida a teburin shi (Shugaban) ya kasance mai tsafta a cikin martanin da ya bayar, yana da kyau sosai," in ji Noffsinger. "Na yi matukar sha'awar yadda yake kulawa da damuwa ga marasa aikin yi, waɗanda ke buƙatar fa'idodin kiwon lafiya, waɗanda ke fuskantar tashin hankali a rayuwarsu."
Shugaban ya shafe kusan kwata na sa'a fiye da yadda aka tsara shi da shugabannin Kirista, wani abu da Noffsinger ya lura ya nuna yana sha'awar tattaunawar. "Ya zauna tare da mu kusan mintuna 42," in ji Noffsinger.
An zaɓi Noffsinger don shiga cikin tawagar a matsayin memba na kwamitin zartarwa na NCC, kuma yana ɗaya daga cikin shugabannin biyu masu wakiltar majami'un zaman lafiya tare da Thomas Swain na Ƙungiyar Abokan Addini, Taron Shekara-shekara na Philadelphia. Kungiyar ta kuma hada da shugaban hukumar NCC, Peg Chemberlin, da babban sakataren NCC, Michael Kinnamon, shugaban CWS John McCullough, da shugabannin sauran kungiyoyi 14 da ke wakiltar al'adun Kirista iri-iri daga NCC.
"Kamar yadda tabarbarewar tattalin arziki ya dabaibaye masu matsakaicin ra'ayi, hakan ya fi yin illa ga wadanda ke rayuwa a kan tabarbarewar tattalin arzikin al'umma," in ji Chemberlin a wata sanarwa daga NCC. "Kungiyoyin mu da kungiyoyinmu suna kan gaba - samar da abinci, tallafi, da taimako ga wadanda tabarbarewar tattalin arziki ta afkawa - amma mun san cewa akwai bukatar a kara yin."
Kinnamon ya ce: “Ko da kuwa sakamakon zaɓen na gobe, ana bukatar shaidarmu mai aminci yanzu fiye da kowane lokaci. "Yau, gobe, da kuma cikin wannan majalisa mai zuwa, kasarmu na bukatar taru wuri daya domin kwato kimarmu ta adalci da daidaito."
Noffsinger yana tsammanin ci gaba da tattaunawa da ma'aikatan fadar White House bayan taron na yau, yana mai ba da rahoton cewa shugaban ya shaida wa gungun shugabannin cocin cewa akwai wasu sabbin tsare-tsare da ma'aikatansa ke son yin aiki tare da al'ummar addini.
Shugaban ya kuma amince da rarrabuwar kawuna da rashin jituwar yanayin siyasar da ake ciki a yanzu, in ji Noffsinger, amma ya bayyana ra'ayinsa na yin hisabi ga daukacin al'ummar kasar, ya kuma yi magana game da ci gaba da rawar da imani ke takawa a rayuwarsa.
Noffsinger ya jaddada cewa zaben ba shine batun taron ba, amma ya kara da cewa shugabannin Kirista "sun damu da jawabin, kuma za su ci gaba da yin addu'a ga 'yan majalisa da shugaban kasa."
Tawagar ta gabatar wa shugaban kasa da Littafi Mai Tsarki na Saint John, wanda aka tsara na kalamai na tunawa da shekaru 100 na ecumenism, da kuma hoton hoton da ke tunawa da shirin CWS “Ciyar da Gaba”.
A wata liyafar da ta biyo bayan taron, wanda Ofishin Bidi’a na Addini ya shirya, ‘yan tawagar sun samu damar ganawa da daraktocin wannan ofishin guda 12. "An yi tattaunawa mai mahimmanci," in ji Noffsinger. Shi da kansa ya sami damar yin magana da ma'aikatan da ke da alaƙa da AmeriCorps, game da labarun sauye-sauye da aka kawo ta hanyar sa kai a cikin al'ummomin gida, da ma'aikatan US AID da Sashen Aikin Noma, game da shirye-shiryen Cocin 'yan'uwa game da yunwa da aikin. Cibiyar Hidima ta 'Yan'uwa.
(Wannan rahoton ya hada da sassan sakin da Majalisar Coci ta kasa ta fitar. Philip E. Jenks na NCC da Kristin Williams of Faith in Public Life sun ba da gudummawa. Hotunan taron Fadar White House ana sa ran za a samu nan gaba cikin wannan makon.)
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