Source: World Faith News/ECLA News Service
http://www.wfn.org/2009/07/msg00086.html
Representatives of nearly 30 religious organizations gathered July 7 in Washington D.C. for a "Faith Leader Summit on Health Care." The summit kicked off a collective effort to build support among Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu leaders for comprehensive reform of the U.S. health care
system.
"I think the faith community has a critical role in interpreting where we are in terms of the crisis to our people, raising the issue that this is a moral imperative and asking people to sign on to be participants in
advocating for health care reform not only for ourselves but for the least of these," said the Rev. Jessica Crist, bishop, Montana Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), and participant in the
summit. According to Crist the faith community wants health care reform but does not agree on the particularities such reform should take. "Health care reform needs to be addressed in a bipartisan and
multifaith way," said Dr. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary, National Council of Churches USA, in the July 7 news conference. "Every human being is a child of God," he said.