for issues surrounding domestic
poverty. The conference brought
bishops and young adults from
nearly 20 dioceses, in all eight U.S.
provinces, to Washington, D.C.
for advocacy training and to meet
with their congressional representatives on issues such as education,
prison reform, nutrition, rural
poverty, and the federal budget.
EPISCOPAL PUBLIC POLICY
NETWORK (EPPN)
A group of 25,000 Episcopalians
convened by the Missionary
Society and committed to living
the Baptismal Covenant’s commitment to strive for justice and
peace, the EPPN led significant
churchwide Lenten advocacy campaigns around violence (2013) and
peace in the Holy Land (2014), engaging the network in grassroots
advocacy and education surrounding these two topics. To sign up,
visit: http://advocacy.episcopalchurch.org.
FEDERAL ADVOCACY
So far this triennium, our Office of
Government Relations has facilitated or participated in more than
500 congressional or administration-level advocacy meetings focused on challenging unjust structures of society and peacemaking
at home and abroad. Participants
have included the Presiding Bishop, diocesan bishops and other
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