Interfaith Organizing

National Faith Groups Call On Congress And President To Close Guantanamo Bay Prison

January 13, 2022 National Religious Campaign Against Torture. Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Interfaith Organizing, Joe Biden, Prison, Torture

Washington, DC – On Tuesday, Jan. 11, twenty-nine national faith groups sent a letter to President Biden and all Members of Congress calling on them “to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and to ensure that all of the people held there are either released, agree to a plea deal, or receive a fair trial in a federal court.” Rev. Ron Stief, Executive Director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, released the following statement: “For twenty years our country has held people without charge or trial in Guantanamo. Some of the people we still hold there were tortured by the U.S. after they were captured. Others have been cleared to leave Guantanamo yet remain imprisoned there, indefinitely detained without trial.

500 Interfaith Clergy And Laity Answered The Call To Stand With Standing Rock

November 5, 2016 Lynette Wilson, www.episcopaldigitalnetwork.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Interfaith Organizing, Standing Rock

By Lynette Wilson for Episcopal News Service – Cannon Ball, North Dakota - In a historic show of interfaith support and solidarity, more than 500 interfaith clergy and laity answered a call to come to North Dakota to stand in peaceful, prayerful and lawful solidarity Nov. 3; and to bear witness with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation as they continue to protect the tribe’s sacred land and water supply.

How Interfaith Activists Will Counter This Week’s Anti-Muslim Rallies

October 7, 2015 Carol Kuruvilla, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Interfaith Organizing

By Carol Kuruvilla for The Huffington Post, Even though statistics show that domestic terrorism and white supremacists are a much bigger threat to Americans than radical Islam, anti-Muslim sentiment and hate crimes have swelled in America in recent years. Now, a disturbing string of nationally coordinated rallies -- some that may draw angry andarmed protestors -- is being planned for October 9 and October 10 at roughly 20 mosques or Islamic centers across the country. The Council on American-Islamic Relations haswarned mosques to take extra security measures during the so-called "Global Rally for Humanity" events. Muslim leaders are advising the community to take the "moral high ground" and avoid direct confrontation with protestors who bring messages of hate onto sacred ground.

Daily movement news and resources