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The Genocide Continues: Voices From Palestine and the Next Wave of Action

March 17, 2026 No Comments

The Genocide Continues: Voices From Palestine and the Next Wave of Action The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), as part of the Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine Coalition (GSPP) of more than 100 international faith-based and civil society organizations from 4 continents representing tens of thousands worldwide, is pleased to have co-sponsored the webinar: THE GENOCIDE CONTINUES: VOICES FROM

FOR and Religious Peace Fellowships Statement on the U.S. Invasion of Venezuela

February 15, 2026 No Comments

Peace and Justice Do Not Emerge from War and Militarism:A Statement on the U.S. Invasion of Venezuela and Its Aftermath January 9, 2026 The Fellowship of Reconciliation and its allies in the undersigned peace and justice movements join the chorus of voices across the United States and around the world in denouncing U.S. military intervention in the early morning of

FOR-USA Condemns Violence and the Threat of Military Intervention in Iran

FOR-USA Condemns Violence and the Threat of Military Intervention in Iran

January 29, 2026 No Comments

I am deeply worried for Iran. Iran in my childhood, my lullaby.Iran is beautiful.Iran has poetry.Iran has flowers, birds, and kittens.Iran is home to 90 million people.Iran carries 5,000 years of history.Iran has not initiated a war in over 200 years.Iran HAS many domestic problems but it is up to its people to take care of them. Do not plan

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How 4 Elders Took the Military-Industrial Complex to Court—And Won!

January 29, 2026 No Comments

Gathering Voices: How 4 Elders Took the Military-Industrial Complex to Court—And Won! In a stunning verdict, a judge ruled in favor of 4 elders who entered L3Harris and called for a citizens’ arrest of its CEO In March 2025, four elders from Demilitarize Western Massachusetts entered the lobby of the Northampton plant of war conglomerate L3Harris Technologies—maker of parts for

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Western Sahara: Islamic Nonviolent Resistance Webinar

December 10, 2025 No Comments

The Struggle of Western Sahara for Self-Determination – Nonviolence & Islam Join FOR-USA and Nonviolence International for a webinar on one of the world’s longest-standing occupations: Western Sahara. The event opens with a political-historical overview of the occupation, followed by exploration of the nonviolent resistance movement led by the Saharawi people—how communities have organized, documented abuses, and sustained resilience under

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Oldest Faith-Based Organization in the Country Calls for a Deep Reckoning on Guns and Hate

September 1, 2025 No Comments

Oldest Faith-Based Organization in the Country Calls for a Deep Reckoning on Guns and Hate FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 28, 2025 – The Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, established in 1915, is horrified at the senseless loss of young life and the injuries yesterday at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It

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LA teachers are fighting to save a popular workshop promoting Muslim and Arab awareness

August 29, 2020

A pioneering professional development course that’s been training teachers to confront anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate for over a decade faces political threats and shut down.

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Reimagining King’s Vision – The Fierce Urgency of Now

January 3, 2023

From Ukraine to Uvalde, the crises of militarism, materialism and racism today Exactly one year before he was murdered, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave an historic sermon at New York’s Riverside Church on the profound connection between US

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Gandhi’s Influence on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States

September 29, 2020

by Paul R. Dekar for the 2020 Gandhi Peace Festival This article was written for the Gandhi Peace Festival, hosted by the city of Hamilton, Ontario on October 2, 2020–the Mahatma’s birth date. -ED By the 1920s, Gandhi had begun

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Beautiful Trouble’s guide to defending democracy and challenging business as usual

October 27, 2020

This article originally appeared in Waging Nonviolence. Turnout, especially in polarized times like these, wins elections. The stakes in this election — whether we have a livable planet, whether kids are incarcerated in detention centers and, perhaps, whether we continue

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“When We Breathe Together”

February 2, 2021

FOR-USA’s executive director, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, was asked to offer up a prayer and reflections on the morning of Jan. 20, 2021 (U.S. Inauguration Day for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris) to an international online

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The Whole World Over

September 15, 2020

We struggle to stand

the whole world over

under the weight of incredible loss and grief.

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In Memoriam: A Tribute to a Cloud of Witnesses

July 31, 2018

Our community of peace-and-justice-makers has lost several beloved members in the past few weeks. This is a small but heartfelt personal tribute to a half-dozen people whose lives have touched

Nominations open for the 2017 Peace Awards!

April 26, 2017

Each year, the Fellowship of Reconciliation awards three peace prizes — international, national, and local — to individuals or organizations whose commitment to peace, justice, and reconciliation is recognized as

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Non-Black Twin Cities residents shut down 35W bridge in support of movement for Black lives

July 12, 2016

Minneapolis, MN – On Wednesday, July 13, a coalition of white people and non-Black people of color – the Coalition to Wake Your Ass Up – shut down the Interstate 35W bridge in solidarity with

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Shadowcliff Estate Sale: Feb. 9-11, 2018

February 1, 2018

You are invited to FOR’s Shadowcliff headquarters in Upper Nyack for an Estate Sale, to be held from Thursday, Feb. 9 to Saturday, Feb. 11. The Fellowship of Reconciliation is

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Where to Turn

November 13, 2016

In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish

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Read Fellowship Magazine Winter 2022-23 on WagingNonviolence.org

January 2, 2023

Read Fellowship Magazine Winter 2022-23 on WagingNonviolence.org Articles from the latest issue of Fellowship magazine, Taking Back the Name of GOD (Winter 2022-2023), are available to read online now at

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New Korean Summit: Possible Steps Forward for Asian Security

February 25, 2019

On February 27-28, the leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet in Hanoi, Vietnam. The place of the meeting has symbolic overtones, especially for Americans, that the earlier summit in Singapore did not. The new summit will

FOR and Religious Peace Fellowships Statement on the U.S. Invasion of Venezuela

February 15, 2026

Peace and Justice Do Not Emerge from War and Militarism:A Statement on the U.S. Invasion of Venezuela and Its Aftermath January 9, 2026 The Fellowship of Reconciliation and its allies in the undersigned peace and justice movements join the chorus

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On Mother’s Day: Faith Leaders Call to End Gun Violence

April 18, 2023

By distorting sacred scripture and religious traditions, Christian nationalism is fueling the epidemic of gun violence. Over 600 faith leaders have signed onto a letter calling for Mother’s Day, May 14, 2023, to be a national day of prayer, mourning, repentance,

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Interfaith Organization Expresses and Calls for Solidarity with the Haitian-American Community

September 18, 2024 — The Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith organization that has worked to end violence and hatred in America since 1915, condemns in the strongest of terms possible

September 18, 2024 No Comments

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FOR’s executive director Ariel Gold on Al Jazeera

October 19, 2023 No Comments

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On Mother’s Day: Faith Leaders Call to End Gun Violence

By distorting sacred scripture and religious traditions, Christian nationalism is fueling the epidemic of gun violence. Over 600 faith leaders have signed onto a letter calling for Mother’s Day, May 14,

April 18, 2023 No Comments

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Oldest Interfaith Organization in America Calls for Children to Have More Rights Than Guns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ariel Gold | gro.asurofobfsctd-25210e@dlogleira | (510) 599-5330Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler | moc.nozirevobfsctd-7bf7d9@relgahsg | (202) 302-0307 Oldest Interfaith Organization in America Calls for Children to Have More

March 27, 2023 No Comments

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Oldest Interfaith Organization in the US Affirms Solidarity with the LGBTQ+ Community in the Wake of Deadly Attack in Colorado

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ariel Gold | FOR-USA executive director | gro.asurofobfsctd-3ce68a@dlogleira | 510 599 5330 Sunday, November 20, 2022 – In the wake of a mass shooting at the

November 20, 2022 No Comments

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Anti-War and Human Rights Leader Ariel Gold Appointed as FOR-USA Executive Director in Historic Hire

After an extensive national search, the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA (FOR-USA) is proud to welcome our next executive director, Ariel Gold. Ms. Gold, a veteran peace and justice advocate, is taking

July 24, 2022 No Comments

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