Faith leaders to testify global warming to Senate committee
From Worldwide Faith News
Date Mon, 04 Jun 2007 Daniel Webster
Director of Media Relations
National Council of Churches

Washington, D.C., June 4, 2007--The National Council of Churches USA (NCC) will be represented by the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church and a member of NCC, this Thursday at a Congressional hearing on global warming.

Jefferts Schori will testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee at 10 am, Room 406, Dirksen Senate Office Building. The committee will hear from several leaders of faith groups in "An Examination of the Views of Religious Organizations Regarding Global Warming."

The NCC's Eco-Justice Programs have been working for nearly two decades addressing environmental concerns from the Christian faith perspective.

The Episcopal Church is one of the 35 member communions of the NCC which is the ecumenical voice of America's Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, historic African American and traditional peace churches. These communions have 45 million faithful members in 100,000 congregations in all 50 states. the rest