Church teaching on Human Rights
The Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England support the UN Declaration on Human Rights.
Roman Catholic Church
"Each individual man is truly a person. He has a nature that is endowed with intelligence and free will. As such he has rights and duties ... these rights and duties are universal and inviolate"
Pope John XXIII, 1963
Church of England
"Rights can be established on the basis of the doctrine of the image of God when we consider those human characteristics which are both distinctively human and shared with God"
Church of England report, 1977
