Feb 28, 2024 | Care for Creation, Environmental Racism, FAN, Issues
In 2023, our Working for Environmental Justice campaign focused attention on three regions in our nation – the Permian Basin and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico; St. James, Louisiana; and Chester, Pennsylvania – as case studies of ongoing environmental injustice. At three...
Feb 22, 2024 | FAN, Peacemaking
Please join the Franciscan Action Network on Thursday, February 29 at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) for a Lenten program, “Preparing our Hearts to be Peacemakers.” Our speakers will be renowned Franciscan scholar Fr. Michael Cusato OFM, scholar in residence at St....
Feb 20, 2024 | FAN, Issues, Peacemaking
A broad coalition of national and local Christian organizations and nonviolent peacemakers have envisioned a Ceasefire Campaign rooted in the transforming power of Jesus’ way of active nonviolence. This campaign has entailed months of creative nonviolent resistance...
Feb 14, 2024 | FAN, Issues, Peacemaking
On February 14, 2024, Christians for Ceasefire held an Ash Wednesday Catholic Mass and Public Witness for Peace in the Holy Land at the White House as the launch of a Lenten Ceasefire Campaign. The purpose of the event was to call attention to and in mourning for the...
Feb 2, 2024 | FAN, Issues, Peacemaking
On Saturday, January 27, 2024, FAN cosponsored an online forum organized by Pax Christi USA focused on the grave concern regarding the increasing threat of nuclear war and what ordinary citizens can do to prevent it. Speakers were:John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa...
Jan 10, 2024 | FAN, Issues
An important part of advocacy for social justice is attending and planning actions. These visible events help our lawmakers in Washington, D.C. and around the country clearly see what issues are important to everyday people and the great numbers of us with Franciscan...
