Holding on to Humanity: Bereaved Palestinian & Israeli Stories of Grief and Hope Monday, April 7, 7pm Stanford Memorial Church Join us for a human centered evening of listening and reflection. Hear the deeply personal stories of loss from two Israeli and Palestinian members of the Parents Circle Family Forum...
FAITH IN ACTION BAY AREA serves San Mateo and San Francisco Counties. Their Rapid Response work is growing. Here are ways you can support it (whether or note you live in San Mateo County!): 1. Share hotline material with your community.HOTLINE PHONE: 203-666-4472 (203-NO-MIGRA)Click on the following links for downloadable...
The Steering Committee of Multifaith Voices for Peace & Justice issued this Statement Against Christian Nationalism on March 4, 2025. A slightly shorter version was published in The Mercury News on March 6, 2025 and titled “Americans of conscience must reject Christian nationalism.” Here is the full text: As a multifaith...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO FREE ULISES Help build pressure on ICE to release Ulises, a 30-year-old husband, father, and longtime Bay Area resident with life-threatening health conditions. Ulises was violently arrested by ICE in Sunnyvale on Feb 21 during an unlawful operation. ICE’s egregious misconduct led to Ulises being rushed...
Join the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) in urging our U.S. Senators and Representatives to cosponsor the NO BAN Act. From NRCAT: In President Trump’s first term, through three iterations of executive orders, people from several Muslim-majority and African countries were barred from entering the U.S. on most or all...
We gather to reaffirm sanctuary, a sacred tradition across many faiths of welcoming immigrants and standing against actions that would tear families and communities apart.
Presentations by Catholic Charities and the Asian Law Caucus regarding immigrant rights, safety plans, resources, legal Q&A.
Learn how to legally document and monitor ICE officials during immigration raids in real-time. This training will equip volunteers to respond in both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
Quakers (Society of Friends) “We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government,nor are we for this party or against the other…but we are for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom,that these may be exalted in our nationand that goodness, righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace,and unity with...
You are invited to read this thought-provoking reflection by Rabbi Amy Eilberg, a member of the MVPJ Steering Committee, printed in full in “Forward” on October 15, 2024: A colleague recently reminded me that during the Vietnam War, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel told a journalist that he could not pray because whenever...