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Advocacy Organizations

• Global Ethic Foundation -- "To carry out and encourage inter-cultural and inter-religious research; To stimulate and implement inter-cultural and inter-religious education; To enable and support such inter-cultural and inter-religious encounter necessary for research and education. The first major result of this investigation of the foundation of the religions was the 'Declaration towards a Global Ethic' which was endorsed by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1993."
• Christian Alliance for Progress -- "a national movement that started in Jacksonville, Florida among ordinary Americans who want to reclaim Christianity and change this current political picture. Members in the movement want to restore core values of Christianity while honoring diverse views about religion and Christian life."
• Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions -- "to cultivate harmony between the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable world."
• Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) -- "to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues."
• National Council of Churches -- a "force for ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States.... The NCC's 36 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, historic African American and Living Peace member faith groups include 45 million persons in more than 100,000 local congregations in communities across the nation."
• National Workshop on Christian Unity -- a national gathering of Church leaders and activists "stimulating an exchange of ideas and experiences among people concerned with Christian unity and the bodies they represent."
• Quixote Center -- "a non-profit justce and peace organization whose mission is to work for structural change in church and society."
• Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy -- "to increase awareness among key stakeholders, including policy makers, religious and civic leaders, and the media, of the critical issues related to faith-based social service programs by means of in-depth analysis and discussion based on the best social service science, legal and policy research."
• Tikkun Community -- "an international community of people of many faiths calling for social justice and political freedom in the context of new structures of work, caring communities, and democratic social and economic arrangements. We seek to influence public discourse in order to inspire compassion, generosity, non-violence and recognition of the spiritual dimensions of life." Local community contacts listed.
• World Council of Churches -- "the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity.... brings together more than 340 churches, denominations and church fellowships in over 100 countries and territories throughout the world, representing some 400 million Christians...."
• Yale Center for Faith & Culture -- "to promote the practice of faith in all spheres of life through theological research and leadership development ... sponsors ongoing programs, fixed-term projects, and short-term initiatives dedicated to understanding and revitalizing the ways in which religious commitments interact with culture and shape people’s lives."

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