Selected Church Statements cont.

• Moravian Church Northern Province — “Statement on Environment” (1990)
• National Council of Churches
  • “Christian Concern and Responsibility for Economic Life in a Rapidly Changing Technological Society” (1966)
  • “Consumer Rights and Corporate Responsibility” (1972)
  • “Ethical Implications of Energy Production and Use” (1979)
• Orthodox Churches
  • Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios — “Message on the Day of the Protection of the Environment” (Sept. 1, 1989)
  • Joint Message of the Orthodox Primates (September 26, 1995)
  • Archbishop Demetrios (Primate, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America) — “Encyclical for the Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year 2002” (September 1)
  • Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios — “Protocol No. 756” (September 1, 2002)
• Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  • Minutes on Ecology as Spiritual Concern (1998)

• “Walking Gently on the Earth” from Applications of Friends Testimonies: Living in the World, p. 81. (n.d.)
• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — “Restoring Creation for Ecology and Justice” (1990)
• Reformed Church of America — “Care for the Earth: Theology and Practice” (1982)
• United Church of Christ — “Perspective on Christian Life Style and Ecology” (1975)
• United Methodist Church
  • “Environmental Justice for a Sustainable Future,” (1992)
  • “Our Social Principles: I. The Natural World.” (n.d.)

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