Peace With Justice Week Resource Links
AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES
Hunger News & Hope
Newsletters
- ABC Hunger News, mission stories, other resources
September 11, 2001
- Song "United We Stand" words and music by Martha Sobaje (PDF)
- Litany by Garth House is available.
- Judson Press publications.
- Caring statements from around the world.
- Pastoral resources Web site
CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
Call to Christian Commitment and Action to Combat Racism
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Peace Ministries and
Peace Resources
The Peace Ministries office serves the Presiding Bishop as primary
advisor on domestic and world events. The office works closely with Anglican
partners through the Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN). The office
serves as liaison to the Episcopal Peace and Justice Network for Global
Concerns (EPJN), and to the venerable Episcopal Peace Fellowship. APJN
is a recognized network of the Anglican Communion and is made up of representatives
from each Anglican Province. There are about 24 active Provinces. The
Director of Peace and Justice Ministries serves as the ECUSA representative
and has been secretary since 1989. It meets bi- or triennially and is
developing communications using available technology to provide greater
sharing of mutual justice concerns. The last meeting took place in April
1999 in Seoul, Korea; a report from this meeting is available from Peace
and Justice.
Special Resources:
Peace and Justice
Ministries Brochure
View and print the Peace and Justice Ministries Brochure.
Presiding Bishop Pages
Visit the web pages of the Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal
Church, USA.
Pentecost
Peace Packet
Act now for peace in Israel/Palestine. View the Pentecost Peace Packet.
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
Decade For A Culture of Nonviolence
The ELCA and the Decade
- The 1999 ELCA Churchwide Assembly commits this church to work with other churches and organizations to build a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence in the decade 2001-2010.
- In-depth information on how the Decade began and why.
ELCA response to the Decade of Nonviolence
- How the ELCA joins the work of the Decade, including a listing of synods that have passed resolutions on nonviolence.
- Find out what individuals, the church, and congregations can do to promote peace.
- A complete listing of publications, videos, and organizations related to peace. Includes links to other resources and ordering information.
- A listing of 20 ideas for promoting peace.
- Bible passages, hymn suggestions, and prayers and litanies for worship planning around peace.
- The Families Against Violence Advocacy Network (FAVAN) developed the "Family Pledge of Nonviolence" to help families live the Gospel daily in the face of violence. Seven versions in twelve languages of the pledge are available.
- A reproducible bulletin insert that describes the Decade and provides prayers of peace, hymn suggestions, and ways to participate in the Decade.
- A complete listing of links related to peace, justice, and the Decade.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)
Presbyterian Peacemaking Program
Advocate for Peace with Justice
Peacemaking Resources and Publications
GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA
SCOBA Hierarchs Issue Statement for International Day of Peace
Recent Patriarchal Encyclicals on Religious Tolerance and Peaceful Coexistence
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
A Just Peace Church
The Just Peace Church vision is a hallmark of United Church of Christ
theological identity. For nearly two decades, the Just Peace Church
program has been a grassroots movement of UCC congregations committed
to corporately naming and boldly proclaiming a public identity as a
justice-doing, peace-seeking church. The movement traces its history
to the 1985 General Synod, when a 
Just
Peace Pronouncement
called upon all settings of the UCC to be a Just Peace Church, underscoring
the words of Dr. Robert V. Moss, the second president of the UCC, who
wrote in 1971, "We now need to put as much effort into defining
a just peace as we have done in the past in defining a just war."
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
The United Methodist Church believes Gods love for the world is an active and engaged love, a love seeking justice and liberty. We cannot just be observers. So we care enough about peoples lives to risk interpreting Gods love, to take a stand, to call each of us into a response, no matter how controversial or complex. The Church helps us think and act out a faith perspective, not just responding to all the other "mind-makers-up" that exist in our society.
(From The Book of Resolutions of The United Methodist Church1996. Copyright 1996 by The United Methodist Publishing House. Used by permission.)
Methodists United for Peace and Justice
A membership association of laity and clergy. For more information contact Howard W. Hallman, Chair, 1500 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, Phone/fax: 301 896-0013
OTHER ECUMENICAL RESOURCES:
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE
Resources for Global Education order form, and Educational Resources online
Church World Service partnerships in 80 nations inspire our lively educational resources. Reliable and easy to use, they are designed to enable congregational and school educators, CROP WALK recruiters, and other passionate folks to spark action on behalf of a more just world.
Making Poverty History: Hunger Education Activities that Work!
Build a Better World! Activities for Children from Church World Service
BREAD FOR THE WORLD
Celebrating more than 25 years of seeking justice for the world's hungry people, Bread for the World is a Christian voice for ending hunger in the new century.
INTERFAITH CENTER FOR CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
For thirty years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement. ICCR's membership is an association of 275 faith-based institutional investors, including national denominations, religious communities, pension funds, endowments, hospital corporations, economic development funds and publishing companies. ICCR and its members press companies to be socially and environmentally responsible. Each year ICCR-member religious institutional investors sponsor over 100 shareholder resolutions on major social and environmental issues. The combined portfolio value of ICCR's member organizations is estimated to be $110 billion
ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN BEREAVED FAMILIES FOR PEACE
http://www.theparentscircle.com/
In 1994, following the abduction and murder of 19 years old Arik Frankenthal by Hammas terrorists, his father Yitzhak, founded the Parents Circle - an organization of bereaved parents who have lost their children to terrorism. It later expanded to include bereaved families who have lost a close relative, either by terrorism or in combat. Over 250 Israeli and nearly 200 Palestinian families who lost their cherished ones in combat or in an act of terror, are united in a movement that is spearheading social and political alternatives aimed at resolving this deadly conflict and to terminate the senseless loss of human life.
JUBILEE USA NETWORK
Jubilee USA Network began as Jubilee 2000/USA in 1997 when a diverse gathering of people and organizations came together in response to the international call for Jubilee debt cancellation. Now over 60 organizations including labor, churches, religious communities and institutions, AIDS activists, trade campaigners and over 9,000 individuals are active members of the Jubilee USA Network. Together we are a strong, diverse and growing network dedicated to working for a world free of debt for billions of people.
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
Pillars of Peace for the 21st Century
Links to resources for advocacy on Iraq
Justice Resources from the NCC
"To strive for peace and justice in the social, political and economic order" is high among the NCC's purposes. The NCC's Executive Board has approved the following justice priorities:
1) The elimination of racial violence and injustice and the building of a racially and culturally inclusive society through multicultural educational and enhanced empowerment programs especially for children and youth in collaboration with the Education and Public Witness Program areas;
2) The eradication of poverty, especially among women and children, through mobilization of and collaboration with local congregations, established anti-poverty groups and other similar community based organizations, and
3) the improvement of health, quality of life and survival of the planet.
Friendship Press web site: www.ncccusa.org/friend/fphome.htm
WASHINGTON OFFICE ON AFRICA
The Washington Office on Africa is an ecumenical advocacy organization seeking to articulate and promote a just American policy toward Africa. Founded in 1972 to support the movement for freedom from white-minority rule in southern Africa, WOA now has an expanded mission which seeks to address issues affecting grassroots African interests throughout the continent. They monitor Congressional legislation and executive policies and actions and issue action alerts to advance progressive legislation and policy, and seek to work in partnership with colleagues in Africa, the Africa advocacy community in the United States, and grassroots organizations concerned with various aspects of African affairs. Their website, www.woaafrica.org, contains a wide variety of resources on peace with justice. In particular, see
Just Faith and Action (http://www.woaafrica.org/JustFaith.htm) is a bi-monthly theological reflection by WOA's Executive Director, on a variety of peace with justice issues, including the US response to threats of terrorism.
AIDS in Africa (http://www.woaafrica.org/AIDS12.htm): WOA has been especially engaged in advocacy regarding the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This link provides a wide range of resources, including analyses of US trade policy on pharmaceuticals and US appropriations.
Sudan (http://www.woaafrica.org/Sudan4.htm): This link provides information about current actions, oil in Sudan, and the Sudan Peace Act.
Sierra Leone (http://www.woaafrica.org/Diamonds5.htm): WOA focuses especially on conflict diamonds issues, which apply to Sierra Leone especially, but also Angola and the Congo (DRC).
Child soldiers (http://www.woaafrica.org/Child2.htm). As part of the campaign for ratification of the child soldiers protocol, WOA here highlights the tragedy of children as soldiers and actions by the international community.
Justice, peace and reconciliation
(http://www.woaafrica.org/Justice.htm).
Here WOA provides resources regarding landmines, peacekeeping forces,
and the conflicts in the Congo, Zimbabwe and Liberia.