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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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Trading Matcha for Peace: When Your Sacred Ritual Becomes a Sacred Gift

August 7, 2025 No Comments

Trading Matcha for Peace: When Your Sacred Ritual Becomes a Sacred Gift The following is a guest post from Brandon Pfeiffer, a Chicago-based activist, musician, and tea enthusiast who runs NeedMatcha.com and serves as web developer for Fellowship of Reconciliation. I’ve been drinking matcha regularly for almost 20 years. Started when I was a Starbucks barista in the early aughts,

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Courage in the Face of Conscience: A Conversation with Israeli Conscientious Objectors

July 28, 2025 No Comments

Courage in the Face of Conscience: A Conversation with Israeli Conscientious Objectors What does courage look like when your deepest convictions clash with your country’s expectations? On Tuesday, August 5th, 2025, we hosted an extraordinary and powerful conversation that challenged us to examine our own understanding of moral courage. In collaboration with Red Letter Christians, our Gathering Voices meeting featured

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Good Friday/Passover Direct Action at Lockheed Martin

April 6, 2025 No Comments

Good Friday/Passover Direct Action at Lockheed Martin As we continue to try to find ways to stand against the violence in Gaza and across the globe, we will be hosting a seder, prayer vigil, and day of direct action during Passover, on Good Friday, at Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest weapons contractor. Register Here:Passover/Good Friday @ Lockheed Martin, Philadelphia Registration

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Continue to Fight Even When You Are Weary

April 2, 2025 No Comments

Continue to Fight Even When You Are Weary Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler The presidential announcements and outrage come at us so viciously fast that it is difficult to keep up with the latest assault on governance, our intellect, decency, or humanity. Much of the perceived chaos is planned and judiciously meted out to keep our heads spinning leaving little time

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February 27, 2022

Awarded to divinity students or emerging leaders focused on nonviolence or whose work creates change and challenges power, the Walter Wink and June Keener Wink Fellowship honors the life and legacy of FOR member Walter Wink (1935-2012) and the ongoing

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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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US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara is a duplicitous power move

December 14, 2020

With less than six weeks remaining in his presidency, President Donald Trump extended his legacy of fomenting division and sowing the seeds of instability, discord, and violence into a new foreign policy realm.

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FOR’s Don Mosley on friend and colleague President Jimmy Carter

February 20, 2023

For over 40 years Don Mosley — who served as FOR-USA’s national chairman in the 1980s — has been a close friend and colleague of President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady, Rosalynn. In early December 2022, knowing that President Carter’s health was

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PETITION FROM PARISHIONERS/CONGREGATION MEMBERS CALLING FOR A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND CONTEMPLATION, THIS MOTHER’S DAY, TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE!

April 18, 2023

If you are a faith leader (reverend, rabbi, pastor, priest, imam, lay leader, etc) please instead add your name here. “From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says: Disarm, Disarm!“ – Original

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IFPB Partnering with FOR for Delegations to Israel/Palestine

July 30, 2016

Interfaith Peace-Builders recently sent an Indigenous and People of Color delegation to Israel/Palestine. Anthony Grimes, FOR’s Director of Campaigns and Strategy, both co-lead this delegation, and represented FOR while on this

Job Posting: Director of Operations

October 25, 2017

The Fellowship of Reconciliation is seeking candidates to fill the ¾-time position of Director of Operations. The Director of Operations (DOO) supports the work of FOR-USA out of the New

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Invitation: Organizing with IFOR featuring Rev. Lucas Johnson

March 9, 2016

We’re thrilled to invite you to a special FOR national organizing call featuring International FOR Coordinator Rev. Lucas Johnson. Lucas, who was previously an organizer in the Southeast for FOR-USA

Member Spotlight: Jim Murphy–“I fear our current President being reelected and being supported by racist and violent groups.”

September 11, 2020

“My biggest fear is the current racial division facing our country right now. I fear our current President being reelected and being supported by racist and violent groups.”

Shadowcliff memories: A community of comrades in the struggle

March 1, 2018

When FOR asked me to write a reflection of my time at Shadowcliff, I first thought about all the different parts of the building I had worked in and roles

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May justice prevail in Rev. Sekou’s trial for praying in Ferguson

February 8, 2016

As the trial of prominent St. Louis-based activist, author and theologian Reverend Osagyefo Sekou enters its second day, the corrupt and stagnant state of the Ferguson municipal court system is

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An American Casualty of U.S. Economic Sanctions on Iran

March 11, 2019

I went to Iran in late February with a peace delegation of 28 Americans organized by CODEPINK, a women-led peace activist group. The first day in Iran we had a very fruitful hour-and-half conversation with Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister

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FOR speaks at UN’s Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

September 28, 2020

Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson participates in a panel discussion sponsored by UNFOLD ZERO on the elimination of nuclear weapons. Fellow participants include politicians, peace activists and artists from around the world, including the Rt. Hon. Jeremy Corbyn MP and musician

Join the Pope’s mission for peace in Ukraine and ‘Declaration of Fraternity of Humankind’

June 21, 2023

As people of conscience, committed to peace and reconciliation, we join in Pope Francis’ mission to end the war in Ukraine by appealing to “those in authority over nations to make concrete efforts to end the conflict, to reach a

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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-969d89@dlogleira | (510) 599-5330Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler | moc.nozirevobfsctd-303d23@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-848760@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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