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Faith-Based Organizations Call for Action on Criminal Justice Legislation

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Faith-based organizations from across the country joined together to call on the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that would help to end the U.S.'s reliance on mass incarceration to solve drug addiction, poverty, mental illness and joblessness as an affront to justice and human dignity.
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Shock and Sorrow Expressed for Slain Honduras Leader in Letter to Secretary Kerry

Ignatian Solidarity Network and the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, joined over 220 human rights, faith, indigenous rights, environmental, labor, and nongovernmental groups in sending an open letter to Secretary of State Kerry expressing “shock and deep sorrow regarding the murder of Honduran human rights and environmental defender Berta Cáceres."
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Faith Groups Call for End to Immigration Raids Amid Reports of Trafficking

This week more than 50 faith groups, including the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States and the Ignatian Solidarity Network, sent a letter to President Obama calling for an end to immigration raids targeting Central Americans.