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Under direction from the current Administration, the EPA is proposing a new rule to change regulations to pollution from coal power plants. This proposed rule - the so-called Affordable Clean Energy Rule - will cause up to 1,400 premature deaths annually by 2030 due to increases in pollution, according to estimates provided by the Administration. ... |
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Speakers, songs and calls to action. Also an image with names of immigrants detained, deported or killed will be projected onto the side of the building. |
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Sponsored by the Unitarian Church of Evanston Green Team Jewish Congregationist Congregation Citizen's Climate Lobby, Evanston Chapter |
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An Evening with Arne Duncan and the Young Men of Chicago CRED Our focus will be gun violence on Chicago’s south and west sides. Through powerful first-person testimony from some of the young men who are living in the most impacted neighborhoods, this event will help to frame the problem in fresh, human terms and... |
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The “Bridges of Hope” conference title speaks to the need for building a bridge that provides pastoral care for the incarcerated. The role of individual volunteers, as well as parish and diocesan ministries, is crucial in creating this bridge. Furthermore, they are bridges in their own persons, bringing the Catholic community on the outside to...
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Featuring Cynthia Flores from the Chicago Police Office of Community Policing Domestic Violence Unit Catholic Charities together with St. Gall presents a free information presentation on Domestic Violence. Learn what domestic violence is and how to recognize the warning signs. Click the link below to view and download the flyer: http://bit.ly/DV_Presentation_StGall_Oct2018 |
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Our students are writing their stories every day: help them be the heros of their next chapters. Open bar, appetizers and dinner. Host: Tim Rhoze, Artistic Director at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater. Keynote speaker: Kevin Coval, Chicago poet and founder of Louder Than a Bomb. Featuring music by DJ Tebot. Honoring: Lori Dube, Life Changer Award recipient....
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JOIN US FOR AN OUTDOOR MASS AND TACO LUNCH! Money raised will go toward renovating a new house we have acquired in order to offer emergency housing service to the community. 11:30am outdoor Mass followed by a taco lunch Tickets are $50/ person. Available at the door, by check made out to Precious Blood or...
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and St. Luke’s Outreach Ministry is cosponsoring a new event with Ascension and St. Edmund parishes to raise the consciousness of our local communities about ways to help friends, neighbors, co-workers or even our own extended family dealing with domestic abuse. The public is invited to this free event...
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Please join the Sisters of the Living Word and Associates as we host Rev. Sara Wohlleb , the Program Director of the Unaccompanied Children’s Interfaith Ministry for the Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants in a presentation and Oktoberfest-themed luncheon as part of our Peace and Justice Series: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: Present Reality and Care. This...
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Honoring grantee organizations, volunteers, and Rev. Matthew S. O’Donnell, Pastor, Saint Columbanus Catholic Church and 2018 winner of the USCCB’s Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award. Host: Bishop Ronald A. Hicks, Archdiocese of Chicago Childcare available. Please RSVP by October 8, 2018 at: archchicago.org/CCHDcelebration
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The first of a two-part documentary series that explores “the risks people of faith are will to take to protect the human rights of those fleeing violence, and the struggles and triumphs of undocumented immigrants and refugees as they resettle in the United States. Writer and producer Debra Gonsher Vinik, will attend, and a facilitated...
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Who we elect matters. NETWORK’s Nuns on the Bus is on the road again— for the first time in two years — to hold members of Congress accountable for their votes on the 2017 Tax Law and the many attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Nuns on the Bus: the Tax Justice Truth Tour... |
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Everyone is on a journey, and no one journey is the same. However, we all share one thing: we are humans on this earth together. We can learn from each other by sharing our stories. Together we will walk in the shoes of our brothers and sisters fleeing violence and injustice worldwide, showing solidarity with...
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How can we become allies of poor communities of color around the world in their nonviolent struggles for social justice and peace? Join us for our Pax Christi Illinois Annual Gathering. All are Welcome! PRESENTER: Marie Dennis is co-president of Pax Christi Interna- tional (the global Catholic peace movement). She will speak about the global nonviolent... |
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The "Be Unafraid" traveling photo exhibit<https://www.sharejourney.org/real-refugee-stories/> lifts the curtain on fears shared by refugees and their American neighbors-and helps us all find common ground. Jeremy Cowart's innovative photo project focuses on ten lives and ten different perspectives. Join us to share fears and the journey to hope. Enjoy free coffee while you walk through a...
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Please join us in celebrating 25 years of incredible theater that uplifts, informs, inspires and affirms the beauty and resilience of the human spirit. Acclaimed international poet, theologian, writer and artist Edwina Gateley will deliver keynote speech. Cake, silent auction, performances and music to follow! Ample parking is available off the street and along the Metra train tracks...
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This year we will be honoring State Senator Don Harmon and State Representative Kathleen Willis with our Abraham Lincoln Award for their tireless commitment to gun violence prevention measures. With their leadership we were able to see the Gun Dealer regulation legislation go to the Governors desk – not once – but TWICE! We will also be presenting our Community...
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Countless people worldwide live on the margins, wounded by socioeconomic and political situations. As CWCIT visiting scholar Fr. Patrick Chibuko explains, it is the “wounded healer” of the Church—and ultimately, Jesus Christ—who offers the wounded true reconciliation through the liturgy. Christ is both the liturgy and liturgist, the summit and source of all reconciliations, and...
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Join us at our 2018 Annual Benefit and celebrate our work and impact on Chicago's west side. As we embark on our ambitious 5-year strategic plan, this benefit is more important than ever. Our theme of Vision will touch on powerful stories of transformation and explore our desire to see a safe, stable, engaged East...
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After eighteen months of attacks on the U.S. refugee and asylum program, the number of refugees entering the country has dramatically slowed and asylum seeking families have been torn apart at our southern border. At a time of unprecedented global need, the U.S. is failing to meet a basic obligation to victims of war, terror,...
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The Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology invites you to join a one-hour webinar hosted by the Inter-religious Working Group on Extractive Industries and Catholic Climate Covenant exploring how a faithful and just response to climate change must address the extraction and exploitation of natural resources such as coal, oil, and gas. The speakers... |
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Join us for the Chicago Religious Leadership Network (CRLN) luncheon with guest speaker, Rev. Dr. Marilyn Pagan-Banks. She will address ways we can join forces to protect immigrants from immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents and African-Americans from police violence. Rev. Dr. Marilyn Pagan-Banks is a queer womanist freedom fighter, minister, teacher and learner, committed to...
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Honoring Marge Nykaza, founder & Executive Director of Harmony, Hope & Healing & featuring Ron Rolheiser OMI, renowned spirituality writer and author of The Holy Longing.
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Fr. Patrick Devine, a missionary and social entrepreneur, gives this second talk in the Center for World Catholicism & Interculltural Theology's new Spiritual Works of Mercy Series on peace and reconciliation in Eastern Africa. This region of the world is increasingly plagued by religious ideological extremism, which generates a hostile cultural environment that suffocates tolerance,...
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Fr. Patrick Devine, a missionary and social entrepreneur, gives this second talk in CWCIT's new Spiritual Works of Mercy Series on peace and reconciliation in Eastern Africa. This region of the world is increasingly plagued by religious ideological extremism, which generates a hostile cultural environment that suffocates tolerance, freedom, mercy, and reconciliation. To create and...
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WTTW is partnering with the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center on a Jewish inspired film screening. This film will air on WTTW next spring as part of their 2019 Jewish Heritage Programming lineup. This screening will include a discussion with archaeologist Dr. Richard Freund. Reservations are free for WTTW supporters and their guests. The Good Nazi shares the...
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