Nov 5, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, News, North America, Peacebuilding, Racial, Social Justice
Dear FOR-USA family, As I write you just after Election Day, from my home in the great republic of Brooklyn, New York, the election results are not yet fully known. What is certain, however, is that we have a great deal of work to do and some difficult days ahead as a...
Mar 22, 2019 | FORusa Feature, General, Uncategorized
In a time of death, some men, the resisters, those who work hardily for social change, those who preach and embrace the truth, such men overcome death, their lives are bathed in the light of the resurrection, the truth has set them free… We say: Killing is...
Oct 26, 2018 | FORusa Feature, General, Human Rights
Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous area of Iraq were attacked by...
Oct 12, 2018 | FORusa Feature, General, Job Post
The Fellowship of Reconciliation USA (FOR-USA) is a national interfaith organization headquartered in New York State. Founded in 1915, our mission is to organize, train, and grow a diverse movement that welcomes all people of conscience to end structures of violence...
Sep 30, 2018 | FORusa Feature, FORusa Staff, General, Press Releases
The Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in North America, is proud to announce the appointment of a new executive director to guide FOR-USA’s renowned global work for progressive social change. The Reverend Dr. Emma...
Aug 8, 2018 | FORusa Feature, General
On July 29, I went to Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, to attend the opening session of the 2018 Sacred Texts and Human Contexts Conference. While there, I was privileged to assist Dr. Muhammad Shafiq, executive director of the Hickey Center for Interfaith...
