Jun 19, 2021 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, Human Rights, North America, Racial, Uncategorized
In my inbox this morning from a major nonprofit organization that should have known better was a Juneteenth celebratory greeting: “We proudly celebrate Juneteenth, the day slavery finally came to an end throughout the South — historically a monumental feat for...
May 25, 2021 | Advocacy, Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, Human Rights, Interfaith, International, News, Nonviolence, Peacebuilding, Racial, Social Justice
This month marks the 73rd anniversary of the creation of Israel following the adoption of United Nations resolution 181 (1947). This political decision was made at UN Headquarters in New York, shunning and circumventing the human right of self-determination by the...
Apr 28, 2021 | Advocacy, Human Rights, Immigration Rights and Reform, International
The Fellowship of Reconciliation in partnership with the International Sanctuary Declaration Campaign and the Ecumenical Committee on Church Asylum (Germany) is pleased to announce a four-session international webinar series: “Sanctuary and the Global Migration...
Apr 27, 2021 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Community, General, Human Rights, Interfaith, News, Peacebuilding, Racial, Social Justice
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me…because the Lord hath anointed me… to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those that are bound.” –Isaiah 61:1 The death penalty is “an inadmissible attack on the inviolability and dignity of the...
Apr 27, 2021 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Conscientious Objection, Interfaith, LGBTQ+, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Religious Community—Clergy, Theologians, and Lay Persons, We write to you at this very challenging moment in history, about the frightening health crisis facing Mumia Abu-Jamal, internationally renowned political prisoner and writer....
Apr 13, 2021 | Advocacy, Beloved Community, Campaigns, Demilitarization, General, Human Rights, News, Nonviolence, North America, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
Since 1915, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has stood as a community of believers from all faiths and traditions in opposition to war and violence in all of its manifestations. FOR-USA was established as a branch of an emerging global movement that would soon become...
