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Healthcare professionals who see parents and patients with religious concerns about immunization may find these materials useful. In general, religions around the world support immunization.
Religious Concerns Resources
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Need Help Responding to Vaccine-Hesitant Parents? Science-Based Materials from Respected Organizations
Need Help Responding to Vaccine-Hesitant Parents? Science-Based Materials from Respected Organizations
Reliable Sources of Immunization Information: Where Parents Can Go to Find Answers!
Reliable Sources of Immunization Information: Where Parents Can Go to Find Answers!
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Vaccine Basics: Vaccine Safety
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Statements from Religious Organizations
Human Fetal Cells
Catholic News Agency: U.S. Bishops Approve Use of Coronavirus Vaccines with 'Remote Connection' to Abortion
Catholic News Agency: U.S. Bishops Approve Use of Coronavirus Vaccines with 'Remote Connection' to Abortion
News article, December 14, 2020, explaining in common language the relative acceptability of vaccines against against COVID-19 in relation to remote fetal origins of assays or production methods
Vatican Statement on the Morality of Using Some COVID-19 Vaccines
Vatican Statement on the Morality of Using Some COVID-19 Vaccines
Statement, December 21, 2020, Pope Francis approves the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith statement on the morality of the COVID-19 vaccines
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Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, Roman Curia: Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions
Instruction Donum vitae is updated (twenty years after its first publication)
Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses
Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses
Clarification about the liceity of vaccinating children with vaccines prepared using cell lines derived from aborted human fetuses
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Vaccines and the Right of Conscience
National Catholics Bioethics Quarterly, June 2004
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Vaccines, Abortion, and Moral Coherence
National Catholics Bioethics Quarterly, Spring 2002
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Vaccines Originating in Abortion
Ethics & Medics, March 1999; 24(3)
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Catholic Medical Association Resolution on Vaccines
A national, physician-led community of healthcare professionals (renewed in 2015)
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Pontifical Academy of Life
Document from Italian Bishops Conference and Association of Italian Catholic Doctors on moral obligation to vaccinate for the safety of others – Issued July 31, 2017
Religion and Vaccines - Aborted Fetuses
Religion and Vaccines - Aborted Fetuses
Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provides information about ethics and religious aspects arising from use of human cell lines in vaccines
Use of Porcine and Animal Products
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Statement from the Seminar Held by the Islamic Organization for the Use of Pork Gelatin
World Health Organization letter
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Porcine and Other Animal Derived Ingredients in Non-oral Medication
Statement from Rabbi Adler concerning the use of porcine and animal products in vaccines
Religion and Vaccines - Porcine-derived Components
Religion and Vaccines - Porcine-derived Components
Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provides information for certain Muslims and Jews who have concerns about vaccines that contain components with porcine (pork) origins.
Rabbinical Statements on Vaccines
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Statement on COVID-19 Vaccines from the Orthodox Union and Rabbinical Council of America
The Orthodox Union (OU) and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) strongly encourage all those eligible to access the COVID-19 vaccination to do so.
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Statement on Vaccinations from the Orthodox Union and Rabbinical Council of America
The Orthodox Union (OU) and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) strongly urge all parents to vaccinate their healthy children on the timetable recommended by their pediatrician
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What Does Jewish Law Say About Vaccination?
Chabad.org website addresses Torah law on health and specific issues about vaccination
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Halachic Aspects of Vaccination
A review of the origins of vaccination in medical and rabbinical literature
Jewish Action, Magazine of the Orthodox Union, Winter 2008
Click this arrow to view Rav Moshe Sternbuch Writes Letter to Rav Malkiel Kotler about the Halachic Requirement to Vaccinate
Rav Moshe Sternbuch Writes Letter to Rav Malkiel Kotler about the Halachic Requirement to Vaccinate
There is an obligation upon every father to vaccinate his children to prevent spread of the disease – as is the law of the Torah to follow the majority view of experts
The Yeshiva Word, November 2018
Click this arrow to view Notice from Vaad Harabbonim Regarding Measles
Notice from Vaad Harabbonim Regarding Measles
Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit, March 2019
Bikur Cholim of Los Angeles Issues Open Letter Urging Community to Vaccinate Against Measles
Bikur Cholim of Los Angeles Issues Open Letter Urging Community to Vaccinate Against Measles
Published by Jewish Journal staff, May 3, 2019
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Resolution on Mandatory Immunization Laws
Union for Reform Judaism, 2015
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Compulsory Immunization
Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), 1999
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Why Is There a Religious Exemption for Vaccinations? Almost No Religions Object to Them
Why Is There a Religious Exemption for Vaccinations? Almost No Religions Object to Them.
Slate - February 5, 2015
 
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Perspective Video: Religious Exemptions from Vaccinations
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Dr. Paul Offit’s discusses his new book, Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
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      JOURNAL ARTICLES
What the World's Religions Teach, Applied to Vaccines and Immune Globulins
Vaccine, April 12, 2013, Vol. 31(16):2011-23
Supplementary Material: Notable Scriptural Passages
How Healthcare Professionals Respond to Parents with Religious Objections to Vaccination: A Qualitative Study
BMC Health Serv Res, August 1, 2012
      MORE INFORMATION: RELIGIOUS CONCERNS
Address Concerns About Religious Beliefs
American Pharmacists Association Vaccine Confident Initiative
These Amazing Orthodox Nurses Are Fighting Measles in Their Community
An article about the work of nurses in the Orthodox Jewish Nurses Association's Vaccine Task Force and their efforts to stop measles, 2019
A Case Against Vaccine Religious Exemptions
A blog post by recent graduates of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health who are public health educators focusing on vaccine communication, April 2019
Cultural Perspectives on Vaccination
Includes a discussion on religious perspectives and objections to vaccination
Human Cell Strains in Vaccine Development
Covers the manufacturing process for viral vaccines and use of human diploid cells
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