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The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a non-profit international service organization that was started in May 1940 (as Unitarian Service Committee) out of an effort to smuggle Jews and other targeted groups out of NaziGermany. Today it is a nonsectarian Associate Member organization of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and works to promote social justice and human rights around the world. It also is very active in disaster relief. Look up Nazi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term Nazi typically refers to someone who affiliates oneself with or is percieved to be affiliated with the ideology of the former National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party). ... Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious denomination formed by the merger in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America. ...
The UnitarianUniversalist Women's Heritage Society was founded in 1988 (as the Women's History Publication Project) by one woman with a vision and a small group of supportive colleagues with funding from the UnitarianUniversalist Association and private donations.
To this end, inspired by UnitarianUniversalist principles, the UU-UNO is committed to peace, freedom and environmental responsibility as well as to social, civil and economic justice for all.
Cedar Lane UnitarianUniversalist Church is a liberal religious community committed to individual freedom of belief, the search for truth, spiritual nourishment and the celebration of life.
The UnitarianUniversalist Association (UUA), founded in 1961 as a consolidation of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America, is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and serves churches in North America.
UnitarianUniversalists follow a congregational model of church governance, in which power resides at the local level; individual congregations call ministers and make other decisions involving worship, theology and day-to-day church management.
Individual UnitarianUniversalists are involved in opposing the death penalty, supporting environmental protection, peace, feminism, gun control, free speech, safe and legal abortion, and animal welfare.
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