Vote by UCC Puerto Rico Conference to disaffiliate 'deeply painful,' says UCC leader Written by Barb Powell Tuesday, 13 June 2006 Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Puerto Rico (United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico), whose partnership with the United Church of Christ goes back more than 40 years, voted Saturday, June 10, 2006, during its annual Assembly to disaffiliate with the UCC. The final vote was 75 percent in favor of the resolution to disaffiliate. The Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC general minister and president, called the action “deeply painful and profoundly disappointing,” but said that the denomination “respectfully, though regretfully,...