Immigration Advocacy Network Newsletter: World Refugee Day Edition
[…] you’re doing! World Refugee Day Toolkit Find your Representative and Senators here Resources Victims of human trafficking are also served under the refugee program in the United States. The Episcopal Public […]
Lenten Series: Singing Anew
[…] the presence of my ancestors into the room— people who left Japan as victims of human trafficking, who left Ireland because of famine, who died in chemical spills in the pineapple […]
5 Questions with Dianne Aid, TSSF
[…] first answer provides ongoing support and safety planning for Spanish-speaking victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. I also serve as the catechist in my congregation. I am currently president of […]
OGR Advocacy Newsletter December 2021
[…] Enact Paid Family Leave Farm System Reform Act Indigenous Peoples Day and Boarding Schools Support Human Trafficking Survivors Keeping Girls in School Act Enact Sentencing Reform Promote Human Rights for Palestinian […]
The Episcopal Church's response to the Central American migrant crisis
[…] (humane immigration reform, immigrants’ rights, family reunification, refugees and asylees, unaccompanied alien children, victims of human trafficking, and/or other vulnerable migrant populations); information, resources, and mutual support for immigration advocacy and […]
Pentecost – Westover Episcopal Church
[…] the Revolution sought to escape foreign domination, and the Civil War sought freedom for all human beings. We’re still struggling over the same issues, and at various times we find […]
Meet the 2019-2020 UTO Intern: Isabelle Watkins
[…] serve Jasmine Road in a way that will bring love and healing to victims of human trafficking.” Isabelle is deeply interested in built environments and is hoping to spend some of […]
UN anti-violence campaign inspires Churches Beyond Borders 2021 devotional
[…] 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women; Dec. 10 is Human Rights Day. In 1991, the inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute started observing the intermediary […]
Exploring Ecumenical Advocacy: Sisterhood of Suffering, Sisterhood of Joy
[…] to equal education, end the use of rape as a weapon of war, fight against human trafficking, end hunger, and so much more. Speaking “out loud and in public” as women […]
Forgiving Seventy Times Seven, Proper 19 (A) – 2014
[…] evils need to be dealt with. They need to be eradicated from the earth and humanity deserves to live in peace and safety. Forgiveness? No! Maybe Jesus in his humanity […]
St. Alban's Underwear Because We Care
[…] work with Underwear Because We Care, he volunteers in refugee issues and the fight against human trafficking. Though he officially retired three years ago, Curtis’ wife says that she’s not sure […]
EPPN Lenten Series: "Transforming Our Culture of Violence"
[…] week with testimony presented to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, which held a hearing on gun violence. “It is abundantly clear to me, […]
Urgent Action Alert: Stop Cuts to Refugee Services & Help Unaccompanied Children
[…] asylees, Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa recipients, Cuban and Haitian entrants, and survivors of human trafficking and torture, ORR, which is within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, […]
International Day of the Girl Child
[…] society change to offer equal pay and opportunities. We must fight against social plights like human trafficking and child brides, which rob our girl children of the futures they deserve. Fight […]
Bible Study: Advent 4 (A) – 2019
[…] us an all-too-familiar story of people falling away from the salvation of God, relying on humans rather than the divine. The plea to God to save is heart-wrenching. The agony […]
Changing Immigration Conversations
[…] share perspectives with Administration officials and urge them to put in place policies that are humane and compassionate. We offer ways for our Episcopal Public Policy Network members to be […]
Domestic Policy Action Network Newsletter July-August 2015
[…] people, with Creation and with ourselves.” The Encyclical challenges consumerism and overreliance on technology, citing human greed as an agent of destruction in the natural world and drawing attention to […]
Episcopal House of Bishops March 2019: Prayers of the People, Opening Eucharist, March 12, 2019
[…] life is not respected or protected – especially those who suffer from the “industry” of human sex trafficking; may the righteous legacy and sainted soul of Harriet Tubman inspire men […]
Presiding Bishop, President of House of Deputies on DACA: We stand with the Dreamers and will do all that we can to support them
[…] to do so while keeping our borders secure from those whose business is in drugs, human trafficking or terror. We are committed to working actively toward both the passage of a […]
Sermon at the Closing Eucharist of Transfiguring Episcope
[…] seems to be equal opportunity, free floating, not just here, but almost anywhere there are human beings struggling with truth and their take on ultimate meaning. âIâm sending you out […]