A statement from the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem on the devastation of the Al-Ahli Anglican Episcopal Hospital this evening- your prayers are needed; please join the Diocese in mourning and stand in solidarity with them.
If Christ is the representative of all the people in their pain and humiliation, then we must expose the suffering of our people who themselves are nailed to a cross —St Oscar Romero, Good Friday, 1978. Read/listen to the whole homily at https://t.co/MUXDTb83UV #StOscarRomero
We grieve, honor, and vow to remember the 17+ Haitians who lost their lives off the coast of the Bahamas this week in a desperate attempt to seek safety.
May their memory be a blessing, and may we all be moved to create a more welcoming world. #WelcomeWithDignity#RestoreAsylum
My prayer of late: May our geopolitics & international relations, esp. our prayers & efforts for world peace, not be stymied by"nations' need to make enemies of each other in order to stoke their industries of machines & weapons of war". Economies based on war-industries=evil!
We are excited to share that @POTUS will award NETWORK former Executive Director @sr_simone the Presidential Medal of Freedom next week!
RT to help us spread the news!
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The Christian #faith is fundamentally an encounter with Jesus Christ. If we truly believe in Jesus, we must try to act like Jesus did: encounter others, encounter our neighbours, so as to share the saving truth of the Gospel with them.
On my way home from the Glasgow Dialogue on finance for Loss and Damage in the Bonn Climate Conference. It felt like we were first class passengers on the sinking Titanic debating whether we should act instead of talk! While the people in the lower decks are already under water!
Biden’s cringe-worthy decision to *praise* Bolsonaro’s management of the Amazon is an affront to Brazilians fighting day-in and day-out to protect the rainforest from his destructive policies and inflammatory rhetoric: @hrw https://t.co/gZTnptRFpO
For far too long, the U.S. government has never adequately addressed the centuries of injustices Black people continue to face.
Join us tomorrow night for a webinar on #reparations tomorrow, featuring keynote speaker @RevJacquiLewis.
Register: https://t.co/kNY3VfydnB
Everything that gets labeled "far-left" in the US is common sense policy in the rest of the industrialized world. Guaranteed health care. Paid family leave. Government drug price negotiation. Gun control.
It isn't radical. We're talking about the basics of a functioning society.
Responding to the horrific shooting in Buffalo, @BishopSeitz' statement: 'Faith compels us to say no to the rotten forces of racism, no to terror, and no to the mortal silencing of black and brown voices.' #BuffaloStrong#ElPasoStrong
I am only into my 2nd week of this position, so I am just gathering my thoughts on how I will undertake my work as the SR. I have identified 8 key themes which I have briefly introduced in my blog. These are preliminary ideas and I welcome any feedback.
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I beg you, let us not surrender to the logic of violence, to the perverse spiral of weapons. May the path of dialogue and peace be taken! #PrayTogether
A group of Aberdeenshire knitters have created a giant globe. The Deeside Knitwits created dozens of knitted squares to make up the oceans and continents, with details added by each crafter #WomensArt#EarthDay
Doubling down on fossil fuels does nothing to shield us from volatile global markets. Our failure to get off oil and gas is making us pay the price at the pumps as the fossil fuel industry profits from yet another humanitarian crisis abroad. https://t.co/Juf8cmu6cG