Letter to Prime Minister Harper: Interfaith Call to Leadership and Action on Climate Change
Dear Prime Minister Harper, I am writing to call your attention to a remarkable Canadian Interfaith collaborative effort on climate. Drawing on the relationships and experience of organizing a Religious Leaders’ Summit in 2010 on the occasion of the G8 meetings in Canada, faith communities have come together to reflect on the spiritual roots of […]
Press Release: Churches Name Election Priorities, Urge Leaders to Act
Media Alert: Churches Name Election Priorities, Urge Leaders to Act The Canadian Council of Churches issued a letter Friday naming their priority election issues. The Council wants strong commitments from federal leaders on anti‐poverty and climate change strategies, as well as serious attention to non‐military efforts in Afghanistan and global nuclear disarmament. For the full […]
Letter to Political Party Leaders: Canadian Council of Churches’ Election Priorities
Political Party Leaders: In view of the current federal election campaign, I would like to take this opportunity to put before you the top priorities of The Canadian Council of Churches. The member churches of the CCC would appreciate receiving a response from each of you on what actions your political party will take on […]
Communiqué de presse: La Chambre des communes rate d’une décennie l’échéance de la fin de la pauvreté infantile : les Églises passent aux actes
Le mardi 24 novembre marquera le 20e anniversaire de la résolution, adoptée à l’unanimité par le Parlement en 1989, d’éradiquer la pauvreté infantile avant l’année 2000. Une décennie plus tard et au 20e anniversaire de la Convention de l’ONU relative aux droits de l’enfant, le Conseil canadien des Églises accorde son appui formel à la […]
Press Release: House of Commons Misses Child Poverty Deadline by a Decade— Churches Act
On Tuesday, November 24, the House of Commons will mark the 20th anniversary of a unanimous 1989 resolution by Parliament to eradicate child poverty by the year 2000. Now, a decade later and on the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, The Canadian Council of Churches formally endorses […]
Letter to Churches in the USA
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, Aware of the current passionate debates concerning health care reform in the U.S.A., I write to you today to share some of our experiences and reflections in similar debates that have taken place, and continue to take place, in Canada. While we have been following the American health care […]
Letter to Governor General Jean: HIV AIDS Pandemic
Excellency: Attached, please find a copy of a recent letter from the Canadian Council of Churches addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Since this letter represents the combined wisdom of the member churches of the Canadian Council of Churches we thought the content of the letter, responding to the HIV AIDS pandemic, might interest you. […]
Letter to Prime Minister Chrétien: Health Council
Dear Prime Minister Chrétien, We are writing to congratulate you and the First Ministers for having established, through the Health Accord, common ground on which to revive and expand this country’s public health care system. During the course of the Romanow Commission’s public consultations, our Ecumenical Health Care Network presented a brief at the Ottawa […]