Stop Cruelty in Churches
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Stop Cruelty in Churches
Table of Contents

Resources and Information to help end animal abuse

• Articles
• Christian Ministries for Animals and the People Who Care About Them
• Churches and Pastors Who Promote Cruelty
• Key Issues
• Letters
• Related Web Links and Organizations
• Things You Can Do
• Vegetarian (Vegan) Pastors and Churches Who Are Animal Friendly

Key Issues

• The Church needs to comfort those who mourn the death of companion animals, for their bond of love can be as great as it is for their own children.
• The Church needs to pray for the companion animals of parishioners, as they would for any other member of their family.
• The Church needs to recognize that animals, like humans, were created as living souls, and that they are in heaven, too.
• The Church needs to recognize the horrible suffering inflicted upon animals in the fur trade, and stop the wearing of fur in the churches.
• The Church needs to recognize the horrible suffering inflicted upon farmed animals in factory farming operations and slaughterhouses, and stop serving the flesh and bodily secretions of these tortured animals at church functions.

Articles

• Animals: Tradition - Philosophy - Religion - Article Series
• A Love of Fishing Causes Emotional Violence
• A Priest of God or a Priest of Satan?
• Animals in Heaven - A look at Revelation 4:6-9
• Are We Becoming More Hardhearted?
• Blessing Then Barbecue Nonsense
• Callous Clergy Corrupt Churches: Rev. Richard Ross of St. Bernard Catholic Church
• Christian Cruelty: An Unfortunate Reality
• "Christian" Trophy Hunters Cause Emotional Harm to Compassionate Believers
• Churches are Ignoring the Plight of Animals
• Churches Entice Hunters With Wild Game Banquets
• Churches Fail to Address Rights of the Lowly – Animals
• God's Hunters?
• Hypatia and the Church's Involvement in Her Tortured Death
• Ignoring One of God's Most Beautiful Prophecies
• Is Mike Zavage a Priest of God or a Priest of Satan?
• Lack of Compassion for God's Animals Causes Emotional Violence
• Let Them Eat Meat
• Mourning the Death of a Loved One Is the Same for Both Humans and Other Animals - Article Series
• Not Being Peacemakers
• Our Acquiescence to Violence Destroys Peace
• Our Silence About Animal Abuse Promotes Abuse of Humans
• Pork Dinner
• Stop Cruelty in Churches
• Subornation of Perjury: Gospels of Fear
• The Catholic Church Blasphemes St. Francis by Promoting Hunting and Cruelty to Animals
• The Chicken Dinner and the Chicken Prayer
• THE CHURCH’S BLIND SPOT
• The Church's Indifference to the Suffering of Even Companion Animals
• The Church's role and God's animals
• The Compassion of the Wicked is Cruel
• The Disconnect of Blessing One Animal While Eating Another
• The Pershore Abbey's Support of Sport Hunting is Against the Teachings of Jesus Christ
• The Torture and Murder of a Bull
• Torturing a Bull for Saint John

Churches and Pastors That Promote Cruelty

• Father Joseph Classen
  - God's Hunters?
  - Comments and Discussions
• New Jersey, Vienna - Vienna Methodist Church
  - Urge Vienna Methodist Church to End Support of Deer Hunting

Letters

• Letter from Susan about Chuck Swindoll Causing Pain and Suffering
• Letter from Maureen DeLorme about Hunting and Animal Suffering
• Letter from Maureen DeLorme against Church Support of Hunting

Compassion in Religion / Spirituality 

Links to organizations and individuals who are dedicated to promoting and re-establishing compassion in society and religion.

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