Editing Churches Uniting in Christ (section)

{{Short description|US ecumenical organization (founded 2002)}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                     = Churches Uniting in Christ
| image                    = Churches Uniting in Christ Logo.png
| type                     = Religious
| founded_date             = January 20, 2002
| location                 = North America
| origins                  = [[Consultation on Church Union]]
| leader_title             = President
| leader_name              = Rev. Dr. Jean Hawxhurst
| leader_title2            = Vice President
| leader_name2             = Bishop Jeffrey N. Leath
| leader_title3            = Secretary
| leader_name3             = Rev. Rock R. Fremont Jr.
| leader_title4            = Treasurer
| leader_name4             = Ruling Elder Juliet Owuor
| key_people               = 
| area_served              = North America
| focus                    = [[Ecumenism]], [[mainline Protestantism]]
| former name              = Consultation on Church Union
| homepage                 = {{URL|churchesuniting.org}}
| affiliations             = Partnered with [[National Council of Churches]], [[World Council of Churches]],  Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, and Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
| website                  = www.churchesuniting.org
}}

'''Churches Uniting in Christ''' ('''CUIC''') is an ecumenical organization that brings together [[Mainline (Protestant)|mainline]] [[United States|American]] [[religious denomination|denominations]] (including both predominantly [[White people|white]] and predominantly [[African American|black]] churches), and was inaugurated on January 20, 2002, in [[Memphis, Tennessee]] on the balcony of the [[National Civil Rights Museum|Lorraine Motel]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Baird | first = Woody | title = Churches Unite to Fight Racism | newspaper = Lakeland Ledger | pages = D5 | date = 26 January 2002  | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=20020126&id=NsxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ov0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4833,2076988 | access-date = 14 August 2012}}</ref> It is the successor organization to the [[Consultation on Church Union]].