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Social Justice
Churches have long been concerned with fairness in society, particularly related to poverty and homelessness. Here we detail the involvement of the Churches in Britain and Ireland in social justice.
Poverty and homelessness
Details of churches and Christian organisations involved in poverty and homelessness issues are listed under Economics and Poverty.
Tax Justice
Churches and Christian organisations are also campaigning against tax dodging by large corporations which deprives governments here and abroad of funds that could be used to help the less well off (hidden offshore wealth has been estimated at as much as $36 trillion). These include:
Social justice groups
Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN)
Established by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales to develop the church’s social action.
National Justice & Peace Network
Seeks to encourage work for justice and peace by promoting communication and shared action between members, supporters and partners.
Eurodiaconia
A European network of churches and Christian NGOs providing social and health care services and advocating social justice.
Methodist Church Justice Lecture: Gordon Brown
Watch again: In the face of Covid-19, the climate emergency and global inequality, where are justice and hope to be found? Former PM, Gordon Brown, presented the Methodist Justice Lecture on Sunday 13 June 2021. Watch again on Facebook as he argues that change is possible and that people of faith have a role to […]
Religious leaders call for vaccine equality
World religious leaders are calling for massive increases in the production of Covid vaccines and an end to vaccine nationalism. They are asking for the steps to be taken that are necessary to produce and distribute enough Covid vaccine for the entire global population, while urging leaders around the world to reject greed and vaccine […]
Flickers of Hope
A campaign using craft to shed light on social injustice is being run through Advent and Chanukkah by the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ). The idea is to create a hanging decoration inscribed with a call to action. Once complete you are encouraged to post a photo of it on social media (with the […]
Longing to belong – through the coronavirus pandemic
A project looking at the overlap and conversation between faith/theology and the arts and social justice, called the Wall of Motives, has been adapted to reflect participants’ sense of belonging through the current coronavirus lockdown. The new version, called Belonging through Lockdown, has attracted responses described as ‘profound, heartfelt, hopeful and down right moving’ by […]
Postponed: David Goodbourn Lecture 2020
Apologies but this has been postponed due to the Coronavirus. Details Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri will present this year’s David Goodbourn Lecture on ‘Caring for people, water and Earth’. It takes up the World Council of Churches (WCC) theme for 2020 of Pilgrimage, expressing concerns for justice and care for creation in our world today. […]
Explore ethical choices around money
* Update * ECCR became the JustMoney Movement in November 2022. A new national programme designed to help Christians explore and make ethical choices around money has been launched by the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR), called Money Makes Change. The first Money Makes Change resource is an interactive workshop for small groups which […]
Serious youth violence – how can the Church help?
With a survey of 29 police forces in England and Wales showing that more than a thousand children were caught with weapons in school last year, Richard Reddie, Director of Justice and Inclusion at CTBI, talked to UCB News about the issue and how the Church can help. You can listen to the interview by […]
Become a Church of Sanctuary
Churches should be welcoming places of safety for all and proud to offer sanctuary to people fleeing violence and persecution. Sanctuary is a long-standing prophetic theme of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures and the idea of a Church of Sanctuary has evolved from the City of Sanctuary movement, building cultures of welcome, hospitality and safety. […]
Tax Justice Sunday – 7 July 2019
Church Action for Tax Justice, in partnership with the Fair Tax Mark scheme and as part of Fair Tax Week (6th – 14th July), is promoting Sunday 7 July 2019 as Tax Justice Sunday. It has produced a number of resources to support churches in making tax justice a focus of their Sunday worship that […]
