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Fighting Poverty with Faith
Fighting Poverty with Faith is a growing and diverse coalition of faith groups committed to cutting domestic poverty in half by 2020. The movement brings the moral authority and the organizing power of the faith community to make meeting the needs of those living in poverty a national priority, and to highlight solutions that address the root causes of poverty.
FPWF is bringing individuals, houses of worship and community organizations together in October 2010 to educate and advocate around domestic poverty. Your organization is invited to participate in an informational conference call on Thursday, July 15th at 3:30 pm EST (call in: 888-690-8774) to learn about this mobilization effort. Please RSVP for the call to Jordan Blevins.
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A recent national poll shows that a majority of both white evangelicals and Catholics support the kind of pro-life and pro-poor, pro-family and pro-peace and creation care that ESA has been promoting for decades.
Only 21% of white evangelicals (13% of Catholics) favor a political agenda focused primarily on abortion and same-sex marriage. And only 18% of white evangelicals (32% of Catholics) favor an agenda focused primarily on fighting poverty, protecting the environment and ending the war in Iraq.
But 55% of all white evangelicals (and 51% of Catholics) say they favor a political agenda focused on all these issues. That is wonderful news.
For years, ESA felt like a small minority in the evangelical world as we continued to promote our "pro-life and pro-poor" etc. agenda. Today a majority agree with us!
Other polls indicate that African-Americans are even more opposed to abortion than white evangelicals. Latino evangelicals feel the same.
Together, white evangelicals and Catholics plus African-Americans and Latino Catholics and evangelicals make up more than 60% of all voters. If we would just learn how to work together politically for a couple decades on this full biblically balanced agenda, we would force both parties to change.
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