US churches challenge anti-poor law

The National Council of Churches USA, an official ecumenical body, and 29 other American faith-based organizations, are urging the US Congress to end a law they say hurts poor families who need legal advice.

“Our faith calls us to advocate for the ‘least of these’ within our society, and to seek the common good,” says the Rev Dr Eileen Lindner, the NCC’s Deputy General Secretary for Research and Planning. “The protection of the access to legal counsel for rich and poor alike stands at the heart of the commonweal and is consistent with our moral precepts.”

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