FAN Partners with Jane Fonda for a Fire Drill Friday

Oct 25, 2019 | Care for Creation

Inspired by youth activists as well as Reverend Barber’s Moral Mondays and Randall Robinson’s often daily anti-apartheid protests, actress and activist Jane Fonda has moved to Washington, D.C. and instituted weekly demonstrations she calls Fire Drill Fridays at the US...

FAN Introduces a New Campaign to “green” Faith Communities and Dioceses

Oct 23, 2019 | Care for Creation

The Franciscan Action Network (FAN) holds at its core a deep care for creation which stems from our patron, St. Francis of Assisi. FAN sees the interconnectedness of all creation and the common origin of humanity as rooted in God’s loving design for the earth and all...

FAN Builds Coalition working on Just Transition

Oct 17, 2019 | Care for Creation

In the nationwide migration to clean and renewable energy, there is great need to implement a just transition that attends to the social dimensions of economic change and to learn from our collective experience when designing policies around best practices. Just...

Feast of St. Francis

Oct 3, 2019 | Resources

FAN Friend and National Animator of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation for the U.S. Secular Franciscan Order, Ms. Carolyn Townes, OFS shared with us a note this week in preparation for the Feast of St. Francis, Oct. 4, 2019. In it, she shares an invitation to...

PRESS RELEASE: Franciscans Support Synod for Pan-Amazon Region

Oct 2, 2019 | Press Releases

Immediate Release: October 2, 2019Media Contact: Janine Walsh | 203-685-1856 | walsh@franciscanaction.orgFranciscans Support Synod for Pan-Amazon RegionHold hope that reconciliation can be achieved with the indigenous peopleWashington, DC – Imagine if you will,...