National Migration Week -January 7-13

January 2, 2018

Action Alert, Immigration

National Migration Week -January 7-13

During National Migration Week, please take the opportunity to engage migrants as community members, neighbors, and friends. Here is the National Migration Week 2018 toolkit with facts, talking points, tips and so much more. There is a beautiful prayer in both English and Spanish at the end. Please use these […]

January 2, 2018

Action Alert, Immigration

World Day of Peace – January 1, 2018

Each year on January 1st, the Catholic Church celebrates World Day of Peace.Pope Francis invites Catholics to embrace those who endure perilous journeys and hardships in order to find peace. He encourages us to use a “contemplative gaze”, recognizing that we are all part of God’s family. Pope Francis urges […]

December 14, 2017

Action Alert, Budget & Taxes

Tell Congress: Equitably Fund Defense and Domestic Spending

Tell Your Member of Congress to Equitably Fund Defense and Domestic Spending Action Alert from Network The Republicans in Congress are trying to increase defense spending and reduce spending on our national safety net programs. In a budget agreement in 2011, the Republicans and Democrats agreed that if they were […]

November 22, 2017

Action Alert, Budget & Taxes

Action Alert-Tax Bill

The Senate Finance Committee passed their version of the tax bill November 16th on a straight partisan vote. The full Senate will take up the bill shortly after Thanksgiving. In addition to its horrible tax provisions, it also includes a partial repeal of the ACA that would cause 13 million […]

November 1, 2017

Action Alert, Immigration

Protect Dreamers and Pass a Clean Dream Act

This week (October 29-November 2), people of faith across the country are participating in a national Week of Prayer and Action With Dreamers. Co-sponsored with others in the Interfaith Immigration Coalition, we are concentrating on and elevating the moral voice in support of the DREAM Act of 2017 (S.1615 and […]

September 21, 2017

Healthcare

Time to Oppose the Graham-Cassidy Healthcare Bill

The Senate is expected to vote sometime next week(Sept 25) on a new effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with legislation that would leave millions of Americans without healthcare coverage. Please email your senators and urge them to vote “no” on this proposal and to work […]

August 14, 2017

Action Alert, Environmental Justice

Season of Creation – September 1 to October 4

From September 1 to October 4, Christians around the world will be praying and caring for creation. It’s the “Season of Creation” celebrated by Christian churches around the globe. The Global Catholic Climate Movement offers a Season of Creation website where you can download a toolkit for your church to host a prayer service, […]

June 12, 2017

Action Alert, Immigration

World Refugee Day – June 20

In our world today, 65 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes, and 34,000 additional people are displaced every single day. The need to welcome refugees to the United States has never been greater. Now is the time to take a stand. A number of refugee resettlement and […]

May 15, 2017

Action Alert, Immigration

Extend TPS for Haitians – Action Alert

Haitians living in the U.S. are at stake. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will decide by May 3 whether or not they intend to renew Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians, which would allow our Haitian sisters and brothers to continue living and working here. TPS protections are given for extreme circumstances […]

May 12, 2017

Action Alert, Global Issues, Peace/Non-Violence

Make Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War a High Priority – Take Action

Urge your members of Congress to cosponsor the Markey-Lieu bill, which would prohibit the president from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war from Congress. Take Action President Donald Trump—like every president for decades—has sole authority to launch a US nuclear attack. And no one—literally no one—has […]