* Unitarian Service Committee of Canada

The flaming chalice was initially the logo of the Unitarian Service Committee during the Second World War.

* The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a nonsectarian organization devoted to promoting human rights and social justice worldwide.

From his isolated position in Marseille, Varian Fry relied on the Unitarian Service Committee in Lisbon to help the refugees he sent.

The First Parish Church ( Unitarian Universalist ) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, hosts an ecumenical " Service of the Four Chaplains " each January.

The Council on American Islamic Relations joined 50 other organizations, including Amnesty International, the Sikh Coalition, the Japanese American Citizens League and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in signing a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi comparing the hearings to those held by Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and calling them " divisive and wrong ", and " an affront to fundamental freedoms "

The symbol had its origins in a logo designed by Austrian refugee Hans Deutsch for the Unitarian Service Committee ( USC ) ( now the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee ) during World War II.

There, he met the Reverend Charles Joy, executive director of the Unitarian Service Committee ( USC ).

In 1945, she helped to found USC Canada as the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada.

After regaining consciousness, Hitschmanova made her way to a medical clinic run by the Boston-based Unitarian Service Committee.

In July 1945, she helped to organize the Canadian branch of the Unitarian Service Committee.

In 1970, Hitschmanova wrote a book entitled The USC Story: A Quarter Century of Loving Service by the Unitarian Service Committee about her experiences working for USC Canada.

Dr. Lotta, as she was known, became a symbol of personal dedication, and made the Unitarian Service Committee at its well-publicised address of 56 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario, a household name through her numerous radio and television ads.

In October 1940, Field resigned his post in Geneva to become director of the American Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's relief mission in Marseilles with his wife Herta in 1941, providing relief for endangered Jewish refugees including antifascists and leftists, and helped many to flee to Switzerland.

Unlike some members of the Unitarian Service Committee and Varian Fry, Field did not face hostility from staff at the US Embassy in Marseilles for his activities, possibly because he sent many of his refugee clients in the direction of Switzerland, rather than the United States.

In 1942 Robert Dexter, director of the Unitarian Service Committee, recruited Noel Field to pass on information to the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).

He arranged for a colleague, Herta Tempi, to establish a small office in Paris as a relief project for the Unitarian Service Committee.

On October 29, 2010, The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee announced that Schulz would serve as its next president and CEO.

Since retiring, he has joined boards of many organizations, including Community Food Security Coalition, FoodShare, Unitarian Service Committee and Food Secure Canada.

Then, on November 22, 1965, the Staten Island Citizens Planning Committee ( SICPC ), which had begun in 1954 as an ad-hoc committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Staten Island, issued the first of many position papers beginning by invoking Olmsted ’ s plea for a linear park ; it concluded by presenting an alternate parkway plan that would spare what has come to be known as the Staten Island Greenbelt, a term proposed by landscape architect, Bradford Greene, one of the group ’ s founding members.

He is a senior Unitarian, serving on the Executive Committee of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and acting as its convenor.

The Canadian Unitarian Council ( CUC ) is the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada.

However, for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists ( YRUU ) programming in Canada, the " Central " and " Eastern " regions are combined to form a youth region known as " QuOM " ( Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes ), giving the youth only three regions for their activities.

In 1953 there were six Unitarian ministers serving congregations in Canada.

It is quite evident in the words of this statement, which was adopted by the attendees of the 2001 youth conference held at the Unitarian Church of Montreal: " We the youth of Canada are deeply concerned about the direction the CUC seems to be taking.

* Unitarian Universalist Congregations in Canada

Category: Unitarian Universalism in Canada

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

* The Canadian Unitarian Council ( CUC ) split off from the Unitarian Universalist Association in 2002 and serves Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations in Canada.

* Continental Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network ( C * UUYAN ) is the Continental ( US & Canada ) Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network, an organization by and for Unitarian Universalist young adults ( age 18 – 35, inclusive ).

While the 2001 Canadian census done by Statistics Canada put Canadian Unitarians at 17, 480, the latest membership statistics from the Canadian Unitarian Council show as of September 1, 2007 they had 5, 150 " official " members.

A similar, though proportionally much smaller, phenomenon has taken place in the Unitarian churches in the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries, which remain more theistically based.

For a more specific discussion of Unitarianism as it evolved into a pluralistic liberal religious movement, see Unitarian Universalism ( and its national groups the Unitarian Universalist Association in the United States, the Canadian Unitarian Council in Canada, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches in the United Kingdom, and the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ).

* Canadian Unitarian Council, the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada

The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ( ICUU ) is an umbrella organization founded in 1995 bringing together many Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists.

* Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines founded 1954, 2000 members.

Once laity and clergy relaxed their vehement opposition to the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 ( sometimes called the Trinitarian Act 1812 and also variously known as the Trinity Act, Unitarian Relief Act and Unitarian Toleration Bill ) that amended the Blasphemy Act 1697 in respect of its Trinitarian provisions, the British and Foreign Unitarian Association was founded in 1825.

The American Unitarian Association was founded as a separate denomination in 1825.

The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship ( UUCF, founded 1945 ) predates the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association ( AUA ) and Universalist Church of America ( UCA ) into the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) in 1961.

Other Unitarian Christian groups are affiliated with the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ( ICUU ), founded in 1995.

The ICUU includes small " Associate groups ", including Congregazione Italiana Cristiano Unitariana, Turin ( founded in 2004 ) and the Bét Dávid Unitarian Association, Oslo ( founded 2005 ).

The Unitarian Christian Association ( UCA, UK ) was founded 1991 by Rev.

The Sydney Unitarian Church, was founded 1850, under a Reverend Stanley and was a vigorous denomination during the 19th Century.

The Unitarian movement in South Africa was founded in 1867 by the Reverend Dawid Faure, member of a well-known Cape family.

* April 17 – The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel, is founded in London by Theophilus Lindsey.

He preached about the unity of God, made early translations of Vedic scriptures into English, co-founded the Calcutta Unitarian Society, founded the Brahmo Samaj, and campaigned against sati.

By 1688, matters had calmed down enough that a new chapel, Christ Church, was founded in Dampiet Street, the congregation of which became Unitarian in 1815.

For 100 years of its history, Phillips Academy shared its campus with the Andover Theological Seminary, which was founded on Phillips Hill in 1807 by orthodox Calvinists who had fled Harvard College after it appointed a liberal Unitarian theologian to a professorship of divinity.

In 1977, she founded the Jubilee Singers, a choir at All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC .< ref >

* American Unitarian Conference was founded in 2000 by several Unitarian Universalists who felt that the Unitarian Universalist Association had become too liberal, both theologically and politically