A PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER BANNING TORTURE

The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, in alliance with Evangelicals for Human Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture, is calling upon the President to issue an executive order banning torture based on six core principles embodied in a Declaration of Principles. The groups are calling this effort the "Campaign to Ban Torture." Prominent faith leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh communities, as well top officials from every Administration since the 1970s, have joined together to endorse the Declaration of Principles. You can click here to view the list of endorsees.

The success of this effort depends upon thousands of individual people of faith joining with their congregations and other religious institutions to endorse the Declaration of Principles.

Your endorsement will contribute toward ending  U.S.-sponsored torture. We urge you to endorse the Declaration. You can click here to do so.

We also ask that you:

You can click here for resources and suggestions for enhancing this effort. You can also click here to read a New York Times article about the Campaign.

With the combined efforts of people of faith and military and national security leaders, we hope to develop a national consensus that the President should issue an executive order banning torture.

For more information contact:

The Rev. Brenda Lynn Kneece
Executive Minister
South Carolina Christian Action Council
PO Drawer 3248, Columbia, SC 29230
Office: 4209 N. Main, Columbia
Telephone: 803.786.7115
Fax: 803.786.7116
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