Hurricane Katrina relief efforts

Along with the coverage Religion News Service is providing about the religious aspects of addressing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, our news service has produced a list of religious organizations assisting with the relief efforts. Please consider this list as you make personal efforts to help out.

Thanks, Adelle M. Banks, Senior Correspondent, Religion News Service

-- Adventist Development and Relief Agency: 800-424-2372 or www.adra.org
-- American Friends Service Committee (Quakers): www.afsc.org
-- American Jewish Committee: www.ajc.org
-- Assemblies of God: www.disasterrelief.ag.org
-- Baptist World Aid: www.bwanet.org
-- Catholic Charities USA: 800-919-9338 or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org
-- Catholic Extension: www.catholicextension.org
-- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ): www.weekofcompassion.org
-- Christian Life Missions: 407-333-0600, ext. 1103 or www.christianlifemissions.org/giving
-- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: 800-552-7972 or www.crwrc.org
-- Church World Service: 800-297-1516 or www.churchworldservice.org
-- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship: www.thefellowship.info
-- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Domestic Disaster Response: 800-638-3522 or www.ELCA.org/scriptlib/dcm/giving/ddisaster.asp
-- Episcopal Relief and Development: 800-334-7626 or www.er-d.org
-- International Aid: 800-251-2502 or www.internationalaid.org
-- International Orthodox Christian Charities: 877-803-4622 or www.iocc.org
-- Islamic Circle of North America Relief: www.icnarelief.org
-- Jewish Reconstructionist Federation: www.jrf.org
-- Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod: 888-930-4438 or worldrelief.lcms.org
-- MAP International: 800-225-8550 or www.map.org
-- Operation Blessing: 800-730-2537 or www.ob.org
-- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance at 800-872-3283 or www.pcusa.org/pda/donate/accounts.htm
-- Salvation Army: 800-725-2769 or www.salvationarmy.org
-- Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board: 800-462-8657, ext. 6440, or www.namb.net
-- Union for Reform Judaism: www.urj.org
-- Unitarian Universalist Association Gulf Coast Relief Fund: www.uua.org
-- United Jewish Communities: 212-284-6944 or www.ujc.org
-- United Methodist Committee on Relief: 800-554-8583 or www.methodistrelief.org
-- United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: www.uscj.org
-- World Relief: 800-535-5433 or www.worldrelief.org
-- World Vision: 888-511-6514 or www.worldvision.org
-- Your Catholic Voice Foundation: 661-869-1000 or www.ycvf.org

-- Compiled by Adelle M. Banks and Jason Kane