Listed below are links to organizations and individuals who are dedicated to promoting and re-establishing compassion in society and religion. Our efforts are based upon sound Biblical teachings, many of which have been glossed over throughout the years. Far too many religious / spiritual leaders and their congregations have lost their discernment of God's compassionate intent toward all of creation, including people, animals and the environment.
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Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals
The Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals is a UK based Christian
organization. Our main aim is to raise awareness of animal welfare
issues within the Anglican Church and the wider Christian community. We are
ecumenical and welcome all Christian denominations as members and
supporters.
Animal Chaplain
The vast majority of the work I do involves supporting individuals and their
animal companion(s) through times of transition. There are a variety of ways
I can support you.
Animal
Interfaith Alliance
The Animal Interfaith Alliance (AIA) is a unique alliance of faith based,
animal advocacy organisations which represents all the major faiths. It
speaks out on the moral treatment of animals by drawing on the combined
wisdom of all faiths, and it promotes social harmony by bringing the faith
groups together on an issue they all share a concern for. AIA’s activities
include animal advocacy and education. We believe in ahimsa – a vegan
lifestyle which does not harm others.
Arihanta
Institute
Arihanta Institute’s mission is to build a world-class online institution
for deeper learning of the Jain tradition, its principles, and how these
principles apply to daily life for the benefit and well-being of individuals
and society in light of today’s most pressing concerns.
Catholic Action for Animals
Catholic
Action for Animals campaigns for the Catholic Church to bring animals onto
their agenda. Our mission statement is “Call on the Catholic Church to do
more for Animals”. We have an online petition for all to sign asking the UK
bishops to set up a Committee on animals alongside their Committee on the
Environment. We believe that focusing on the bishops is most important in
bringing change, and so we encourage Catholics to lobby their bishops.
Catholic
Concern for Animals
CCA is active in promoting animal welfare and
related issues throughout the Catholic world and educating all Catholics
(and others) on Catholic teaching and practice on the issue of animal
welfare and compassion in line with published Catholic documents such as
Pope Francis’s Encyclical Letter Laudato si’. CCA does this through
various means including our magazine, The Ark Magazine, and social
media.
Christian Animal Rights Association
The Christian Animal Rights Association is a nondenominational ministry
dedicated to educating, advocating, protecting and defending the rights of
all sentient animals, from a Biblical and Christian perspective. We support
and encourage Christian animal rights activists around the world. We educate fellow Christians on the importance of caring for animal rights
issues. We educate animal rights activists about how Christian tradition and
values can support animal rights and animal liberation.
Christian
Vegetarian Association CVA
The Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA) is an international,
non-denominational ministry of believers dedicated to respectfully promoting
healthy, Christ-centered and God-honoring living among Christians. We
advocate nutritious plant-based diets in the global Christian community.
Through publications, websites, and related public information campaigns, we
educate people about the distinct health, environmental, and animal-related
advantages of plant-based eating.
Christian Vegan Reformation
A group to promote Christian Veganism. We are not suggesting a new
denomination, but an overall vegan reformation of all Christian Churches.
Christian Vegetarians and Vegans UK (formerly CVA UK)
CVVUK
supporters are encouraged to promote the benefits of a vegetarian/vegan diet
within the church and in their dealings with other Christians. A
vegetarian/vegan diet dramatically reduces cruelty and violence towards
God's creatures but also reduces the disastrous effects a carnivorous diet
is having on the environment. A vegetarian/vegan diet will also release food
for the hungry (reducing the threat of future conflicts) and improve the
health of our bodies, the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Church for
Christian Vegans
Making the world a better place for animals and everybody! Christian Vegans
raising our voices for animal liberation movement.
Circle of Compassion
May all beings be free! Please join the Circle and together we will embrace the earth with an energy
field of love and compassion. Join us in affirmative prayer every day at
noon. We are worldwide.
Compassion
Consortium
The Compassion Consortium is a non-sectarian and interfaith religious
center. We offer spiritual guidance, support, and fellowship to vegans,
vegetarians, animal rights activists, animal lovers, and all humans who care
about and advocate for animals and the planet.
Compassionate Spirit
Simple living and nonviolence - Vegetarianism / Veganism - Peak oil -
Climate change - Ecological economics - History of religion - Early
Christianity - The Ebionites - Contemporary religion
Concern For Helping Animals in Israel (CHAI)
The mission of CHAI is to prevent and relieve animal suffering in Israel and
to elevate consciousness about animals through education. We strive to
foster empathy, respect, and responsibility toward all living beings, and to
inspire and empower people, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian, to recognize the
interconnectedness of all life and to make compassionate choices for the
good of all.
Creature Kind
Engaging churches in new ways of thinking about animals and Christian faith,
with a special focus on farmed animal welfare. Mission: To show God’s love
to all God’s creatures. Vision: We want the church to participate in animal
protection, for the health and safety of all of God’s creatures. Our core
message is that we are CreatureKind together with other animals, and ought
to be CreatureKind in how we treat them.
Dharma Voices for Animals
Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) is an
organization of those committed both to practicing the teachings of the
Buddha (the Dharma) and to speaking out when animal suffering is supported
by the actions of those in Dharma communities and by the policies of Dharma
centers.
Episcopal Network for Animal Welfare
The Mission of the Episcopal Network for Animal Welfare is to create an
inclusive and mutually supportive venue for Episcopal animal advocates with
a variety of interests and gifts; and to offer our presence, passion,
enthusiasm and resources to help equip the churches to give meaningful voice
to every creature under Heaven, especially where neglect, cruelty,
degradation and commercial exploitation are concerned.
Food for Life Global
The distribution of sanctified plant-based meals has been and will continue
to be an essential part of India’s Vedic culture of hospitality from which
Food for Life was born. FFL is the world’s largest plant-based food relief
with 210 projects in 60 countries serving up to 2 million meals daily.
Humane Religion
This organization, and
the magazine by the same name, are committed to publishing articles that will nurture and
support those who have been called to be part of the spiritual evolution that is
manifesting itself among those who understand that love and compassion must be the
hallmark of our relationship with all God's creatures.
Interfaith Vegan Coalition (IVC)
The Interfaith Vegan Coalition (IVC) helps activists and spiritual leaders
bring vegan values to spiritual, ethical and religious communities. The
guiding ideals of most traditions are nonviolence, loving-kindness, and
harmlessness. We work with all faith and secular wisdom traditions to help
them practice these ideals toward all animals. Our religion-specific
Advocacy Kits can help you veganize your place of worship!
International Gabriele Foundation
The goal of the International
Gabriele Foundation is to create habitats for animals in which they can lead
a life worthy of free creatures of God. According to their species, they
should be able to move freely and in peace, without fear of being persecuted
and tortured, in a growing positive connection to people, who approach them
with help and care, who show them respect, appreciation and friendship in
their feelings, thoughts and the selfless deed.
Jewish Initiative
for Animals JIFA
JIFA is a team of compassionate professionals who work with communities to
pursue alternatives to factory farming that align with Jewish values.
Jewish Veg
Jewish
Veg educates and builds community to encourage plant-based lifestyles
through celebrations and conversations about Jewish values.
Jewish Vegetarian
Society JVS - UK
The Jewish Vegetarian Society is an international charity, dedicated to
promoting a kinder society, without killing animals for food, where mankind
is not cruel to fellow beings, both human and animal, as expressed in the
Torah.
Karuna Music and Art
Dr. Will Tuttle is an award-winning speaker, educator,
author and musician. His Music, writings and presentations focus on
creativity, intuition and compassion. His book The World Peace Diet
has been called one of the most important books of the 21st century: the
foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of
all life.
LAMBS Least Among My
Brothers and Sisters
PETA’s LAMBS program is a resource for Christians who want to learn more
about how our faith should influence our relationship with animals.
Whether you are a longtime animal advocate or just learning about how
animals are abused for food, clothing, experiments, and other greed-driven
human endeavors, there’s something for you.
Nazarene Way
Simply stated, veganism is the conviction and practice of compassionate
living. Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation
and cruelty to the animal kingdom and includes reverence for all life...the
diet ordained by God.
Not One
Sparrow
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to
the ground outside your Father’s care.
Order of the
Cross
The Order of the Cross is a spiritual fellowship that embraces a life of
love and light, compassion and peace. The sanctity of all life is
honoured by members who are vegan or vegetarian and embrace the ideal of a
pacifist way of life.
Peace to All
Beings
This is a place to imagine, dream, pray, and believe that we human beings
can awaken to our higher consciousness, embrace a new paradigm of living in
harmony, rather than in fear and domination and become "Homo Ahimsa," my
term for the new nonviolent and kindhuman that we can become. This is a
place to bear witness to the violence around us and at the same time hold
fast to the bold vision of a world at peace, not only for people, but for
all life.
PETA Lambs
Jesus' message is one of love and compassion,
yet there is nothing loving or compassionate about factory farms and
slaughterhouses, where billions of animals live miserable lives and die
violent, bloody deaths.
Post Animal Use World
PAUW
A beautiful world begins with a beautiful vision. The Post-Animal-Use World
(PAUW) Project offers a way for us to share our ideas of what could be.
Please share your vision with us and maybe, with the power of our individual
minds, we can create a collective vision of a better future for all.
Quaker Concern for Animals
UK
Quaker Faith and Practice states: “Show a loving
consideration for all creatures and seek to maintain the beauty and variety
of the world. Work to ensure that our increasing power over Nature is used
responsibly, with reverence for life.” John Woolman, the 18th century
American Quaker and anti-slavery pioneer, wrote: “To say that we love God
and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature is a
contradiction in itself.”
Raw Christian Living
We exist to vegevangelize the world, promoting raw, organic, vegan living
that spreads the full Gospel and glorifies God. We plan and facilitate
unification of people and supply inspirational information to fuel the raw
vegan Christian lifestyle.
SARX Christian Animal
Welfare
Sarx is a UK based charity which strives towards a world where Christians
lead the way in enabling animals to live with dignity, freedom and peace.
Shepherding All God's Creatures
We are Disciples of Jesus who love His animal kingdom! I, Kathy, started a
Spiritual venture a few years ago that has led me to this blog endeavor,
when one day I was awakened to the industrialization and incorporating of
animals into factory settings. Animals today are exploited on every level by
man: factory farms, vivisection, fur farms, puppy mills, canned hunting and
hunting in general as a sport, animals in entertainment, and others.
Silent Communion
Silent Communion is the precept that all of God's creation is perfect (by
His design), and that in being perfectly created by Him, He excludes no life
from the ability to commune with Him. Thus, Silent Communion represents not
a communion in silence, but a communion that is silent to mankind but
nevertheless exists fully in forms that we cannot understand.
Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV)
SERV is an
interfaith effort to gain a more humane, just, peaceful, and environmentally
sustainable world. We believe that applying spiritual values to scientific
knowledge encourages plant-based diets, with major benefits for humans,
animals, and the environment. We wish to respectfully make religious
communities aware that the realities of animal-based diets and agriculture are
inconsistent with basic religious teachings, such as those to treat animals
with compassion, preserve our health, protect the environment, conserve
natural resources, reduce hunger, and pursue peace and nonviolence.
St. Francis
Alliance: Faithful Voices For Animals
Faithful Voices for Animals is a group of Catholics and other people of good
will committed to seeking a just and compassionate world for all creatures.
Inspired by Pope Francis’s encyclical on integral ecology, Laudato Si’, we
aim to foster dialogue, to educate, and to act faithfully in our daily
choices to promote the inherent value of animals, who share our common home.
The Fellowship of Life (FoL)
A Christian-based vegetarian network
founded in 1973 to take ethical awareness of animal exploitation to the
Churches in Britain. In this century, the central aim of FoL activists has
been superseded by the Christian Vegetarian Association of the UK. The FoL
website currently constitutes a growing archive of Church-related animal
rights reportage from the 1970's to 90's and a small selection of leaflets
remain available.
The Vegan Muslim Initiative
The Vegan Muslim Initiative was founded by two vegan Muslims, Sammer Hakim
and Elysia Ward out of Australia and Canada respectively. After crossing
paths in late 2015 via our first Facebook group and sharing a passion for
health and the environment, we determined that if Muslims are going to be
relevant and positive contributors to our planet’s future, then there must
be a major paradigm shift in how we view and approach food. We seek to
educate our fellow men and women alike and encourage them to take the
compassionate road, towards a better future for all.
Tibetan Volunteers for Animals
Tibetan Volunteers for Animals (TVA) is a registered non-government and
non-profit organization registered under Karnataka Societies Act 1960. TVA
is managed and run by a group of young Tibetan activists determined to make
a difference. God loved the birds and invented trees. Man
loved the birds and invented cages...
Tree of Life Foundation
The vision of the Tree of Life Foundation
is to create a living experience of spiritually awakened, sustainable,
healthy living for the individual and the planet. We serve to provide people
of all faiths, religions, and spiritual paths a direct experience of what it
means to live a quality of life that is healing on all levels from the
agricultural interests of our society to personal and emotional health and
spiritual awareness.
Unitarian Universalist
Animal Ministry
Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry empowers
individuals, chapters, and congregations to build justice and compassion for
animals.
Unitarian Universalist Association
As part of our dedication to
environmental justice, we pay attention to the impact of our involvement in
the food system. Ethical eating recognizes the moral consequences of our
food choices. The ways our societies raise, buy, and consume our food has
direct effects on the earth, plants and animals, and humans who work to make
our food available.
Vegan
Church Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Vegan Church is a platform that offers vegan christians of different
denominations the opportunity to meet each other and to connect their faith
with their vegan lifestyle.
Vegan Passover Seder Page
The genesis of this page, was a vegan Passover Seder that I organized for
ECM on Monday April 17, 2017. It was the first time I had ever put together
a complete Passover Seder, including creating a Haggadah (based upon
Holistic Non-violence, a concept developed by Tribe of Heart film
producers). On this page, you will find all of the recipes that I used and a
PDF that you can download of the Haggadah that I assembled.
Vegan Spirituality
Do you feel passionate about being vegan for ethical reasons? Is compassion
for all living beings fundamental to your spiritual beliefs? You can honor
your vegan ethics and nurture your spiritual self by joining our Vegan
Spirituality Community.
Vegetarian
Friends (Quaker Vegans)
Vegetarian Friends.net is the publisher of the monthly journal The Peaceable
Table. We are dedicated to providing inspiration and support for Quakers and
other people of faith in the practice of love for animals and a vegetarian
diet. This journal is a project of the Animal Kinship Commitee of Orange
Grove Friends Meeting.
Animal Padre's Christians Against All Animal Abuse
James Thompson’s quest for Christian truth based on a Biblical foundation,
led him to minister in several major denominations of the UK. Pastor James
wanted to see a Christianity becoming as herbivorous as the original Paradise.
A Church’s Ark of salvation at least as accommodating as Noah’s.
Christ Loves Creatures, Too!
To promote biblically based Christian
compassion and stewardship toward God's animal creation through Bible
studies, lectures, articles and animal rights advocacy.
God's Creatures Ministry
Our mission is to light the way to the kingdom of God by promoting
compassion for all animals. All of creation is groaning in labor pains waiting
for the revelation of the children of God - hoping to be set free from slavery
to corruption (see Romans 8:19-22). Jesus came to set the captive free. He is
holding all things together (see Col. 1:15-17) until He comes again in glory.
Healthy Moms, Healthy Families
A Christ-centered ministry dedicated to
educating, inspiring and empowering people to steward their bodies as the temple
of the Holy Spirit.
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