AME & AME Zion
Donation is viewed as an act of neighborly love and charity. They encourage all members to support donation as a way of helping others.

Assembly of God
Donation is highly supported.

Baptist
In 1988, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution supporting donation as a way to alleviate suffering and have compassion for the needs of others. Donation is advocated as an act of charity.

Buddhism
Donation is a matter of individual conscience and high value is placed on acts of compassion.  Organ donation is a gift to help humanity and as such benefits the donor's karma.  The importance of letting loved ones know your wishes is stressed.

Christian Scientist
Christian Scientists normally rely on spiritual means of healing rather than medical. They are free, however, to choose whatever form of medical treatment they desire, including a transplant. The question of donation is left to the individual member.

Episcopal
In 1982, a resolution was passed that recognizes the life-giving benefits of organ, blood and tissue donation. All Episcopalians are encouraged to become donors.

Greek Orthodox Church
Donation is supported as a way to better human life through transplantation or research, leading to improvements in the treatment and prevention of disease.

Hinduism
According to H. L. Trivedi in the scientific journal Transplantation Proceedings, "There is nothing in the Hindu religion indicating that parts of humans cannot be used to alleviate the suffering of other humans."

Independent Conservative Evangelical
In general, Evangelicals have no opposition to donation.  Each church is autonomous and leaves the decision to donate up to the individual.

Islam
The principle of saving human lives is of utmost importance. According to A. Sachedina in Transplantation Proceedings', "The majority of the Muslim scholars belonging to various schools of Islamic law have invoked the principle of priority of saving human life and have permitted the organ transplant as a necessity to procure that noble end."

Jehovah’s Witness
According to the Watch Tower Society, donation is a matter of individual decision.  Members are often assumed to be against donation because of their opposition to blood transfusions.  However, this means only that all blood must be removed from the organs and tissue before being transplanted.

Judaism
All four branches of Judaism support and encourage donation. Numerous resolutions have been passed encouraging donation.  According to Orthodox Rabbi Moses Tendler, "If one is in the position to donate an organ to save another's life, it's obligatory to do so, even if the donor never knows who the beneficiary will be.  The basic principle of Jewish ethics, 'the infinite worth of the human being,' also includes donation of corneas, since eyesight restoration is considered a lifesaving operation."

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America passed a resolution in 1984 stating that donation contributes to the well-being of humanity and can be "an expression of love for a neighbor in need."

Mennonite
Mennonites have no formal position on donation, but are not opposed to it. They believe the decision to donate is up to the individual and/or their family.

United Methodist
A 1984 policy statement regarding organ and tissue donation states that the church “recognizes the life-giving benefits of organ and tissue donation, and thereby encourages all Christians to become organ and tissue donors…to those in need, as a part of their ministry to others in the name of Christ, who gave His life that we might have life in its fullness.”

Mormon
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints believes that the decision to donate is an individual one made in conjunction with family, medical personnel, and prayer. They do not oppose donation.

Pentecostal
Pentecostals believe that the decision to donate should be left up to the individual.

Presbyterian
Presbyterians encourage and support donation. They respect a person’s right to make decisions regarding his or her own body.

Roman Catholic Church
Donation is viewed as an act of charity and love. Transplants are morally and ethically acceptable to the Vatican.

"Over and above such outstanding moments, there is an everyday heroism, made up of gestures of sharing, big and small, which build up an authentic culture of life. A particularly praiseworthy example of such gestures is the donation of organs, performed in an ethically acceptable manner, with a view to offering a chance of health and even life itself to the sick who sometimes have no hope."
Pope John Paul II, Encyclical: For a New Culture of Human Life (Par. 86), March 25, 1995

Seventh-Day Adventist
Donation and transplantation are strongly encouraged. Many transplant hospitals, including Loma Linda in California, are Seventh-Day Adventist.

Unitarian Universalist
Donation is widely supported and viewed as an act of love and giving.