CCN invites your entire community to an unprecedented opportunity for the Church Communication Network audience:

On Sunday, April 20 CCN proudly brings you a special presentation of The Compassion Forum, featuring exclusive CCN interviews with 2008 presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

The Compassion Forum is a bipartisan presidential candidate
forum dedicated to discussing issues of moral significance to people of faith.

More than ever, people of faith are bridging ideological divides to address a new set of common moral concerns, including poverty, AIDS, climate change, and human rights.

Yet, there are few opportunities for voters to hear presidential candidates discuss these issues of faith and compassion.

The Compassion Forum steps into this void to elevate these critical compassion issues in the 2008 election.

In this event co-sponsored by a right-left coalition of faith leaders, the presidential candidates will discuss how their faith and moral convictions affect their positions on issues concerning the faith community.

Rather than debate, each candidate will participate in a separate substantive one-on-one conversation. Questions will be posed by moderator Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, as well as nationally prominent members of The Compassion Forum Board.

The Compassion Forum will focus on issues of moral significance to people of faith from across the political spectrum:

  
• U.S. and Global Poverty
• AIDS
• Climate Change
• Abortion
• Darfur
• Human Rights and Torture

     

Give your community an unparalleled, up-close look into the heart of the 2008 campaign -- ONLY on CCN!

The Compassion Forum Board

• Dr. Frank Page, President, Southern Baptist Convention
• Dr. Joel Hunter, Senior Pastor, Northland A Church Distributed
• Rev. Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
• Dr. Paul R. Corts, President, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
• Rabbi Steve Gutow, Director, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
• Dr. Oran P. Smith, President, Palmetto Family Council
• Gary Haugen, President, International Justice Mission
• David Neff, Editor, Christianity Today
• Father Larry Snyder, President, Catholic Charities
• Rev. Jim Wallis, Founder, Sojourners
• Dr. Syeed Sayeed, National Director, Islamic Society of North America
• Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
• Rev. David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World
• Dr. David P. Gushee, President, Evangelicals for Human Rights
• Ronald J. Sider, President, Evangelicals for Social Action
• Rabbi Irwin Kula, President, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
• Rev. Joseph A. Darby, Senior Pastor, Morris Brown AME Church, Charleston, S.C.
• Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor, Episcopal minister and Author
• Rabbi David Saperstein, Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
• Rev. Dr. George Hunsinger, Founder, National Religious Campaign Against Torture
• Dr. Iva E. Carruthers, General Secretary, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
• Matthew Sleeth, MD, Director, A Rocha USA
• Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Ph.D, Rector, American Jewish University
• Alexia Kelley, Executive Director, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good
• Rev. Sally Bingham, Founder, Interfaith Power & Light
• Rev. Jim Ball, Ph.D., President and CEO, Evangelical Environmental Network
• Sister Mary Waskowiak, RSM, President, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
• Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., President, Healing of the Nations Foundation
• Rabbi Gerald Serotta, Chair, Rabbis for Human Rights – North America
• Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim Chaplain, Georgetown University
• Rev. Dr. Tyrone S. Pitts, General Secretary, Progressive National Baptist Convention
• Sammy Mah, President and CEO, World Relief
• Rev. Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, North American President, World Council of Churches
• Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, President, Union for Reform Judaism
• Rev. Dr. William J. Shaw, President, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
• Randy Brinson, Founder, Redeem the Vote
  
  

Organizational Sponsors to Date:

• The ONE Campaign -- An effort to rally Americans to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty.
• Oxfam America -- An international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice.

Organized by:

Faith in Public Life (FPL) is an organizing and communications resource center for faith leaders - a nonpartisan 501(c) (3) organization with a proven record of success in uniting people of faith from across the ideological spectrum around compassion.