ELCA Advocacy

  International migration reached a total of 244,000,000 people in 2015, while the number of migrants as a percentage of global population remains stable at about 3%. As part of World Food Day 2017 observances, a meeting was held at...

  Last week, President Trump signed an executive order directing several federal agencies to develop new regulations impacting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Those regulations are expected to cause the proliferation of health care plans that, while potentially less expensive...

  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the largest protestant denominations in the United States with more than 3.7 million members and 9,300 congregations nationwide, has a long history of standing alongside migrants and refugees. Every day we...

Lutherans are taking action across the country! Below you will find our monthly State Advocacy Newsletter. Share with your friends! ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS: The October day of...

Lutherans are taking action across the country! Below you will find our monthly State Advocacy Newsletter. Share with your friends! ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ELCA.org/advocacy FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS: The day of...

  Since Congress has gone home for August recess, the budget for Fiscal Year 2018 remains unclear. It is during these times of uncertainty, that it becomes even more important to remember the most vulnerable around the world. There are...

  Last year, 98% of voting members at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly passed the AMMPARO Strategy to accompany children fleeing violence and persecution in Central America. Today, the Administration took away a legal and safe path for some of those vulnerable...

Lutherans are taking action across the country! Below you will find our monthly State Advocacy Newsletter. Share with your friends! ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ELCA.org/advocacy FOR SUCH A TIME (AUGUST): This month’s day of...

Lutherans are taking action across the country! Below you will find our monthly State Advocacy Newsletter. Share with your friends! ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ELCA.org/advocacy FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS: PRAYER, FASTING AND...

By Ruth Ivory-Moore “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”  (Galatians 3:28 NSRV) Without justification or rationality,...