As a group of faithful people representing diverse religious traditions we continue to add our voices to the myriad calls for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. As a first step we call for an end to all violence and immediate unimpeded delivery of robust humanitarian aid to the...
to destroy one life is to destroy the whole world, and to save one life is to save the whole world Jewish Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5, and Muslim Qur’an 5:32 [Statement issued by MVPJ Steering Committee in April 2024] As people of faith contemplating the horrendous violence in the Middle East,...
More than 30 Palestinian and Israeli human rights and peace organizations issued this powerful call for an immediate ceasefire and entry of humanitarian aid. Help us amplify their message! Israel must stop the attacks and allow immediate entry of aid! CLICK HERE to join Combatants for Peace’s effort for handwritten...
Members of our MVPJ Steering Committee have visited with Stanford student hunger strikers and others who gather every evening at White Plaza for Muslim prayers and to call attention to the starving people of Gaza. On May 24, 2025, MVPJ Steering Committee sent the following letter to Stanford University’s President...
We are horrified by the murder of the young Jewish couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC on May 21. Our prayers are with their families and friends, and with our Jewish siblings across our nation. Coming from diverse faiths and spiritual traditions,...
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...
In response to the increasing risk of a nuclear disaster, Multifaith Voices for Peace & Justice’s Steering Committee has endorsed a letter to President Biden with an urgent call for the resumption of arms control negotiation. The letter was issued on September 22 by some 29 distinguished and diverse faith...
During a time when our immigrant neighbors are rightfully afraid to leave their homes, take their children to school, seek shelter from the cold, register for college, or seek medical attention, as people of faith we cannot sit by and simply pray. During a time when Jews and Muslims nationally...