Feb 4, 2020 | Press Releases
February 3, 2020Media Contact:Janine Walsh, walsh@franciscanaction.org, 203-685-1856 Franciscans Denounce Further Expansion of Muslim Ban as Islamophobic Contradicts Christian and Franciscan Teaching Washington, DC – After the President issued an expansion of...
Feb 4, 2020 | Care for Creation, Uncategorized
January 25, 2020 saw crowds of enthusiastic plungers gathered at the National Harbor outside of Washington, D.C. for the 15th annual Polar Bear Plunge to #KeepWinterCold and Franciscan Action Network was there! FAN’s Plunge team this year was: our new Executive...
Feb 3, 2020 | Peacemaking
In 2017 and 2018, FAN worked with Unity Productions Foundation (UPF) to promote their Emmy Award nominated docu-drama, The Sultan and the Saint. The film is a powerful depiction of Muslim-Christian encounter as told through the story of St. Francis of Assisi and the...
Jan 27, 2020 | Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is an exploitation of vulnerability and migrants are among the most vulnerable populations. St. Josephine Bakhita (pictured), who was born in 1869 in South Sudan, was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the age of 7 and spent much of her life in...
Dec 17, 2019 | Press Releases
December 17, 2019 Immediate Release Media Contact: Janine Walsh | walsh@franciscanaction.org | (203) 685-1856 Franciscans Sickened By Vandalism at Nessah Synagogue Washington, D.C. – The Franciscan Action Network was sickened to hear of the vandalism that...
