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The Racial Justice Ministries of the ELCA serve as catalysts and bridge builders.<\/p>\n

We are called to be a church that embraces each person and confronts racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, age, gender, familial, sexual orientation, physical, personal and class barriers that often manifest themselves in unjust treatment, inequalities, exclusion and violence.<\/p>\n

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