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How an Austin church agreed to offer an immigrant sanctuary | UU World

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“The call for sanctuary for Sulma Franco came to First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, where I’m senior minister, because we have the reputation of being welcoming to LGBT folks, and because the Rev. Marisol Caballero, minister of religious education and congregational engagement, had been doing antiracism work within the congregation and beyond. Word had gotten out in the immigrant community.

Could we help?”

http://www.uuworld.org/articles/deciding-offer-sanctuary?utm_source=f

Courage leads to change in this world.

This congregation lived out the first and second principles.

~Namaste
Cricket

Growing our leadership and advocacy for immigrant justice

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Together, we will walk a trail used by people migrating with volunteers with No More Deaths, a ministry of the UU Church of Tucson. We will witness the militarization of the border itself, observe “Operation Streamline” hearings designed to criminalize immigrants, and travel into Mexico to visit with people who have been recently deported and hear their stories. We will worship together, and help each other discern how our ministries and our movement can respond to the need for immigrant justice within broader movements to end the criminalization of communities of Color.

http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/ourstories/2015/8/21/growing-our-leadership-and-advocacy-for-immigrant-justice-join-a-border-trip

~Namaste,

Cricket

Praying for Refuge

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As we hear news of tragedies facing refugees, asylees, and immigrants around the world, we offer this prayer and hold all those suffering in our hearts. “May your grief and loss be assuaged. May the hard road you travel include spaces of rest and security. May you know your inherent worth and dignity every day of the journey.” Read the full prayer on WorshipWeb

with a heavy yet hopeful heart,

Cricket

10 years since Hurricane Katrina

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From the archives: Ten years ago this week, we launched uuworld.org as a weekly web magazine, with plans to publish one news story a week—just in time to cover the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the response of Unitarian Universalists to that complex catastrophe. (Reporter Donald Skinner filed 14 hurricane-aftermath stories in our first three months!) Revisit our coverage here; the link takes you to our earliest stories. We’ll publish an update to mark the tenth anniversary soon.

https://www.uuworld.org/hashtag/hurricane-katrina?page=4

Namaste,

Cricket

UU World: Black Lives Matter

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UU World editor Chris Walton writes in his Fall Column: “The General Assembly passed a resolution calling on UU congregations to support the Black Lives Matter movement, which is challenging police brutality and other expressions of white supremacy. The movement challenges us, too.”

~Namaste

Cricket