Shared human values, cited to each tradition's own voice.
Start with your own faith tradition. Values in Care cites each tradition's own authorities and does not blend distinct beliefs into one interfaith position. As an optional avenue, we also reference cooperative interfaith bodies (the Parliament of the World's Religions, Religions for Peace, the United Religions Initiative) as framing for our shared humanity. We do not paraphrase any tradition through them. Every claim about a specific tradition links to that tradition's own authoritative source.
Values in Care is not an interfaith organization, interfaith care model, or faith-based service. Faith, spirituality, worldview, culture, family, community, and shared-value material are optional context within a broader values-centered healthcare decision framework. Cooperative interfaith bodies may be cited only for pluralism, dialogue, or shared-ethics context; they never define a tradition or a person’s preferences. Tradition-specific healthcare claims rely on appropriately qualified tradition-specific sources, and individual preferences must always be elicited from the person rather than inferred from identity.
A global interfaith convening organization whose current strategy emphasizes continuous interfaith collaboration, relationship-building, shared learning, and values-based action across religious and spiritual communities.
Key Documents
The Parliament's current Global Ethic presents five commitments: non-violence and respect for life; solidarity and a just economic order; tolerance and truthfulness; equal rights and partnership between women and men; and sustainability and care for the Earth. Values in Care uses this only as interfaith shared-ethic context, not as a clinical ruling for any tradition.
Multi-religious coalition advancing common action for peace, sustainable development, and human dignity.
Key Documents
Religions for Peace issues multi-religious statements supporting dignity in health, including end-of-life care and pandemic response — as a coalition position, not a tradition-specific ruling.
Global grassroots interfaith network of 'Cooperation Circles' that promote daily interfaith cooperation, end religiously motivated violence, and create cultures of peace.
Key Documents
URI's Charter establishes a decentralized structure built around self-organizing Cooperation Circles for grassroots interfaith collaboration.
Values that appear across many traditions, expressed in each tradition's own terms and cited to its own authority. This is a starting point; full coverage is editorially in progress.
Human Dignity
The inherent worth of every person, especially in illness and dying.
Roman Catholicism
Catholic teaching holds that human dignity persists through serious illness, dependency, and dying.
Rabbinic health-care sources frame care for people who are ill and access to needed health care as communal obligations; individual treatment decisions require case-specific guidance.