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Resolution Number: 2012-D050
Title: Encourage Clergy Response to Poverty and Justice
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 77th General Convention requests all Diocesan Bishops to distribute to their clergy “A Prophetic Clergy Call to Action” encouraging them to sign the Call to Action and to commit to teaching, preaching and organizing to unify people of faith around reducing poverty and increasing economic and racial justice.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, 2012 (New York: General Convention, 2012), p. 697.