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Policy Alerts, Updates & Newsletters
Last Chance to Reauthorize VAWA -- Act Today!
Take Action to Stop Cuts to Critical Programs TODAY
Advent Resources on the Millennium Development Goals
Stop Reauthorization of the Patriot Act – Act Today!
Keep the Pressure on Congress for a Budget That Reflects Your Values
Demand Humane Treatment for Military Detainees
Stop $50 Billion In Cuts To Programs Serving The Poor
Act Now: Help Workers in the Gulf Coast
Take Action TODAY to Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Stop Cuts To Programs Serving The Poor
Urge Congress to Reauthorize VAWA Today
Contest Winners & Congressional Meetings
Global Poverty, the MDGs, and the Upcoming UN Meeting
URGENT - Ask Congress to Oppose Energy Bill
Stop Cuts In The Food Stamp Program
Urge Congress to Support Life-Saving Research
Urge Congress to Lift the Ban on American Travel to Cuba
World Refugee Day Action & Events
Urge Congress to Protect Social Security
Urge Congress to Say NO to New Nuclear Weapons
EPPN Membership Drive and Contest
Earth Day Celebrated Across the Country
Cosponsors Needed to Protect AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Urge Senators to Support Complete and Accurate Sex Education – Vote Expected This Week
Earth Day Resources/Tell Us About Your Celebration
Success of Lenten Campaign!
Social Justice Advocacy as a Lenten Practice: Support Aid to Palestinians and Protect Asylum Seekers
Social Justice Advocacy as a Lenten Practice: Critical Vote for Global Fund
Social Justice Advocacy as a Lenten Practice: This Budget Does Not Reflect Our Values
Social Justice Advocacy as a Lenten Practice: TANF and Aid for Palestinians and Sudanese
Social Justice Advocacy as a Lenten Practice: Global HIV/AIDS Funding and Increasing Our Voice
Social Justice Advocacy as a Lenten Practice: Debt Relief and Farm Worker Protections
Oppose Anti-Asylum Legislation
Social Justice Advocay as a Lenten Practice: MDG's and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
EPPN Newsletter January 2005

Domestic News
Coalition Letter to Congress: Support Hurricane Relief For Rural Areas
Coaltion Letter to Senate: Hate Crimes
Letter: Supporting Senator Bingaman's Efforts to Preserve Habeus Corpus
'Torture is unacceptable,' NCC general assembly declares
Letter to Congres: Gulf Coast Bishops on Hurricane Recovery
Letter - Presiding Bishop to Congress RE: Budget Reconciliation
Coalition Letter: Living Wage Campaign
Federal budget is 'beyond redemption,' bishop says
Letter to Sen. Santorum in Support of PAWS (S. 1139)
Religious leaders call on Hastert to oppose housing restrictions
A Moral Choice for the United States: The Human Rights Implications for the Gwich’in of Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Coalition Letter RE: HR 1461
Episcopal Church leaders endorse comprehensive immigration reform legislation
Interfaith Statement in Support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Coalition Letter RE: Potential Medicaid Cuts
Executive Council Resolution: On Poverty in Our Nation and Hurricane Recovery
Presiding Bishop thanks Senator John McCain in letter for senate action regarding Guantanamo detainees
Letter: Presiding Bishop to McCain on Toture Amendment
BACKGROUND: The Davis-Bacon Act and Poverty on the Gulf Coast
Letter to Congress RE: Davis Bacon Act
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Coalition Letter to Congress: Budget & The Nation
House of Bishops Resolution - Importance of Davis Bacon Act
Coalition Letter to Sen. Chambliss: Food Stamps
Coalition Letter to Rep. Goodlatte: Food Stamps
In Katrina's wake, church leaders urge Congress on federal budget, poverty concerns
As Congress reconvenes, disaster relief, social safety net, Arctic drilling and budget dominate agenda
Food Stamps: Action urged to protect children's nutrition
Coalition Letter to Senate: VAWA & Youth
Coalition Letter to House: VAWA & Youth
Coalition Letter to Senate: Against Repeal of DC Gun Laws
RESOURCE: VAWA Reauthorization
Executive Council Passes Resolution on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
World Refugee Day is June 20
Historical interfaith convocation insists 'Hunger No More'
BACKGROUND: Social Security
Presiding Bishop's Letter to Congress on Social Security
Episcopal Church leaders praise new stem cell research bill
OGR Letter to US House: Stem Cell Legislation
Immigration reform possible, Migration Ministries director says
Letter to Congress: Mandatory Minimums
BACKGROUND: Federal Budget Process (Chart)
Federal budget fails moral test, Shea says
Utah religious leaders call for a Federal Budget that protects poor
Five mainline protestant leaders call Bush's 2006 budget 'unjust'
'Congress should reject this budget,' mainline leaders say
Religious Organization Statement of Principles To Preserve and Strengthen Social Security
BACKGROUND: TANF and Sex Education Funding
Coalition Letter to Congress: AgJOBS
Earth Day focus set on 'Sacred Oceans and Seas'
UPDATE: TANF Legislation
Updates on Lenten EPPN Alerts
Coalition Letter to Congress: VAWA
Senate action affirmed on AIDS, malaria; vote may not decide final course on Arctic drilling
House of Bishops calls on U.S. Senate to protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Program Cuts in Adminstrations Proposed FY'06 Budget
BACKGROUND: FY'06 Budget Priorities
Sign-on: NAWS letter to Secretary Chao
Presiding Bishop's statement on President Bush's 2006 federal budget
A Faith Reflection on the Federal Budget
TESTIMONY OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN OPPOSITION TO S.131
Federal spending a moral matter, Griswold tells panel

Interntaional News
Coalition Letter to Rice/Hughes: Supporting Road Map to Peace
At-risk children aided by new legislation
Coalition Letter to Sect. Rice: Two-State Solution
'Positive investment' in Israel-Palestine central to Council action
Israel/Palestine: Report recommends corporate engagement, positive investment
Coalition Letter to Sect. Rice: UNFPA Funding
Historic religious gathering sees unique opportunity to end global poverty
Jewish and Christian Leaders on Mission of Peace to Jerusalem
Global poverty, MDGs, focus of National Cathedral service Sept. 11
Griswold troubled by U.S.-proposed revisions of global poverty agreements
Government Relations chief praises Chifamba appointment to Washington Office on Africa
Presiding Bishop to Congress: Lift Travel Ban to Cuba
BACKGROUND: Cuba Travel Ban
Jerusalem-Washington: Video conference targets Middle East peace
World Refugee Day is June 20
Coalition Letter to President: Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Immigration reform, workers' rights: Arizona diocese sets August summit
BACKGROUND: Nuclear Weapons
Meeting with Abbas, religious leaders affirm two-state solution
Coaltion Letter to President: Sex Trafficking
BACKGROUND: AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children
BACKGROUND: TANF and Sex Education Funding
Presiding Bishop affirms President's recent stance on West Bank settlements; barrier concerns underscored
Updates on Lenten EPPN Alerts
Middle East: A message from the Presiding Bishop
Senate action affirmed on AIDS, malaria; vote may not decide final course on Arctic drilling
Audio stream of RNS interview with Griswold, Ndungane
Global relationships crucial to meeting MDGs, Griswold and Ndungane say
Letter to US House International Relations Committee Suporting HR 972
Letter to Senate RE: Continuing Crisis in Darfur Sudan
BACKGROUND: Adminstration's FY06 Budget and The Global Fund
BACKGROUND: Debt Relief
Israel/Palestine peace must be a priority
Sign On: Review of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs