On July 24 at 10am Eastern Time, representatives from about 50 religious congregations of women and justice promoters will be gathering in Washington DC to pray and speak for the vulnerable, the underprivileged and the forgotten.
Religious women have been advocating for the rights of the oppressed for centuries. They continue to work in hospitals, universities, schools, community and social support service centers, and the places that may be abandoned or untouched by the interest of today's world. They continue to advocate for the vulnerable people affected by the challenges brought by any system such as education system, health system, immigration system, climate crisis, prison system, and the challenges of providing social services and human rights for the people who usually on the fringe of the society.
Currently, immigrants are being pictured as criminals or belonging to gang members who have intentions of creating havoc, and destruction in the country. This bill attacks immigrants by using billions of dollars of taxpayers money to build detention facilities and obstructions to nature that will only hurt life forms apart from the fear and harm that the prison system can cause to our fellow human beings. What kind of environment and values do we want to embrace in today's generation?
The current budget planned through the "One Big Beautiful Bill" for the country will also affect the health of the vulnerable seniors, physically and financially challenged individuals. The bill targets the vulnerable members of our populations by cutting funds for Medicaid, SNAP, and the Child Tax Credit Program.
Another vulnerable members of our society is the nature. The One Big Beautiful Bill will allow sales of public lands for fossil fuel production. This means that more land will be abused and left into the hands of businessmen whose objective is to gain more money and unfortunately the laws are not protecthing the land from harm that the businesses will cause in the process of extraction as well as after the land has been fully extracted to its fullest. The oil and gas industries have already caused harm to nature with so many hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells that are causing unregulated methane exposure in large part of United States.
WHAT: Sisters Speak Out: Prayer and
Public Witness for Immigrants and a Just Economy
WHO: Speakers include Sister of Mercy
Mary Haddad, RSM, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, and
Missionaries of Christ Jesus Sister Norma Pimentel, MCJ, executive director of
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, among others.
WHERE: Capitol Hill, corner of Constitution
& 1st St NE (across from Russell Senate Office Building)
WHEN: Tuesday, June 24, 10:00 a.m. ET
For more information, go to Sisters Speak Out! information, go to Sisters Speak Out!
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A prayer of love, Suscipe Prayer of St Ignatius
Whatever I have or possess, it was you who gave it to me;
I restore it to you in full,
and I surrender it completely to the guidance of your will.
Give me only love of you together with your grace,
and I am rich enough to ask for nothing more. Amen.
Advocacies:
Save Medicaid - Action Network
Save SNAP-Ed – We need your voice!
Stop “One Big Beautiful Bill”: Tell Your Two Senators ‘Vote NO on Reconciliation Bill That Would Fund Cruel Border Policies and Mass Deportation’
The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative