Sentences with phrase «organized faith leaders»

In these positions, she organized faith leaders, community members, and low wage workers, and supported the implementation of policy initiatives that were designed to help improve health outcomes in Black and Latino communities.

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So the only words King actually is quoted as saying is that he «hates organized religion» and in his stories you find religious leaders as the great villains (prison warden in Shawshank Redemption) and this article concludes he is a great proponent of religious faith?

It was not that long ago faith leaders and millions of activists organized across the globe to press President George W. Bush to respond to the AIDS pandemic and fund solutions to end extreme global poverty.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Some conservative Christian leaders have questioned Obama's Christian faith, even though Obama got his start in politics through church - based political organizing and has written about accepting Jesus in his 20s.

He helped organize the My Faith Votes event and told the Christian Post, «The Trump campaign has been unbelievably cooperative to commit such time with these leaders... It is the largest, most representative gathering of national, Christian leaders I've seen in my lifetime.»

Faith leaders who organized a large nonpartisan forum for the city's mayoral candidates were left fuming Thursday night when the biggest names pulled out at eleventh - hour — including Mayor de Blasio who cited a scheduling conflict and Republican real estate mogul Paul Massey who complained the questions were too tough.

In the meantime we will be working with legislative leaders — Democrats and Republicans — and continuing to do what we've been doing all along, and that is working with our community and our allies across New York, including those from communities of faith and organized labor, to earn the votes we need to bring the marriage equality bill to the floor of the Senate for passage.»

A broad and powerful coalition working together — LGBT and straight, upstate and downstate, Republican and Democrat, people of faith, business leaders, organized labor, people of color — this is how equality and justice will be achieved.

Cuomo said he tapped Timothy Cardinal Dolan to organize an interfaith group of religious leaders and congregations to highlight the commonalities in the different faiths.

May 14, 2018 • Faith leaders are renewing Martin Luther's King's effort to demand better jobs and living conditions for the poor, by organizing demonstrations across the country to highlight the issue of poverty.

Faith leaders, says Scott, can organize their communities to write to legislators, get involved in policy debates, or invite policymakers to speak to them.

For the November event, parents, community members, faith leaders and politicians organized a rally in support of the Dearborn becoming a STEM community school.

But more than that, we want to organize the community and our faith leaders to take action and work to improve schools for all kids.»

I organized a coalition of faith leaders, students, nurses, doctors, and every day citizens to clean up Maryland's air and protect her shores from sea level rise and global warming.