Religious Policy Links

The African Methodist Episcopal Women’s Missionary Society helps sponsor Hunger No More.

American Baptist Churches policy statement on hunger. For the entire list of ABC policy statements and resolutions click here.

Read the newly issued Faithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) urge Catholics to join the Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty. The campaign urges people to pray, learn, educate, and advocate around U.S. economic policy relating to trade, aid, and debt. In 2002, the USCCB offered A Place at the Table: A Catholic Recommitment to Overcome Poverty and to Respect the Dignity of All God's Children. Other important policy statements include In All Things Charity: A Pastoral Challenge for the New Millennium and Putting Children and Families First: A Challenge for Our Church, Nation, and World. The Conference's website also features a recent report on domestic food and nutrition programs and the USCCB position on hunger issues. To read the Jesuit Conference Office of Social and International Ministries Mission Statement click here. The

Christian Reformed Church fights hunger through its World Relief Committee and encourages its members to be advocates for peace.

The three-fold mission of the Community of Christ World Hunger Ministries is to support a program of ministries to hungry persons throughout the world by funding agencies and projects seeking to provide relief, educating about hunger-related issues, and encouraging individual church members to advocate with governmental representatives on behalf of the hungry.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism publishes Social Actioin/Public Policy positions on its website.

The Episcopal Church, USA outlines the church's position and activities relating to public policy advocacy. To read the 1985 affirmation of the church's response to global hunger and famine, click here. The Episcopal Church's Convention is the church's primary policy-making body. In 1982 the Convention resolved to Call for a Reordering of Federal Budget Priorities and to Urge the Church to Deepen Its Commitment to Alleviating Hunger.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's World Hunger Program addresses chronic hunger and poverty around the world and here in the United States. The ELCA Division for Church in Society website includes a resolution on Domestic Hunger Poverty and Substandard Housing and a resolution on the Family Farm. Both resolutions passed at ELCA Churchwide Assemblies. A Social Statement on Economic Life: Sufficient, Sustainable Livelihood for All was amended at the 1999 ELCA Churchwide Assembly.

Holy Name Province Office for Justice, Peace, & Integrity of Creation has various statements on social justice issues, including some looking at hunger and poverty.

As the public policy arm of the nation's largest representative Orthodox Jewish organization -- with over 1,000 member synagogues nationwide -- the Institute for Public Affairs works to protect Jewish interests and freedoms by providing government officials with informative policy briefings, advocating legislative and regulatory initiatives, and coordinating our constituency's grass-roots political activities.

The National Council of Churches website includes Justice Resources which aim "to strive for peace and justice in the social, political and economic order".

The Presbyterian Hunger Program broadly addresses hunger and its underlying causes such as poverty through direct service, support for community economic development, education of fellow Presbyterians about the issues and related lifestyle connections, and by advocating for public policies that promote just social and economic systems.

The Jewish Reconstrucionist Federation's Tikkun Olam section of their website includes policy positions, charitable programs and events.

The Reformed Church in America offers "Fifteen Ways to Help Cure Hunger." Their Reformed Church World Service program aims to fulfill the biblical mandate to feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, care for the sick, and visit the imprisoned.

Reform Judaism's Religious Action Center (RAC) website includes legislative summaries and the position of the Reform Jewish Movement regarding hunger. The RAC pursues social justice and religious liberty by mobilizing the American Jewish community and serving as its advocate in the nation's capital

United Church of Christ offered "Remember the Poor: a call from the Collegium" for Easter 2003.

The United Methodist Church website offers many short policy statements. Click on these links to view the church's statement on poverty or sustainable agriculture. Through the World Hunger/Poverty program, the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) not only supplies food for hungry people, but also helps poor countries move forward with development. In 2001, the United Methodist Bishops renewed the initiative on Children and Poverty with the Bishops’ letter Community with Children and the Poor. In order to gather support for the initiative, a study guide challenges churches to explore their involvement in mission and role in the broader community.