Join us to learn more about CatholicSocial Teaching and immigration and the work already being done in the Cleveland area to support our immigrant and refugee neighbors.
“Neighboring the Dear Neighbor: A Catholic Response to Immigration in Cleveland” is being held on Saturday, June 13, 10am-12pm at the St Joseph Center, 3430 Rocky River Dr., Cleveland 44111.
Free and open to the public.
Registration is suggested: http://tinyurl.com/csjneighbor
*We smash authoritarianism through organizing and movement building, we don't condone smashing actual things you don't own. We are committed to strategic non-violence. Also, we just like the word SMASH =)
to register click here
IRTF’s sister organization in Chicago (Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America) is organizing an election observer delegation to Colombia for the end of May 2026. Please consider applying for this delegation.
May 24–June 1, 2026, during the country’s general elections on May 31.
See the information and application here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelym2HM5T7u2vCbeGmzC1rYFaexLWH9ERMUgGSaDV6WguTzw/viewform?pli=1
This year, SOAW will once again join the Migrant Trail Walk, an annual interfaith pilgrimage through Arizona's Sonoran Desert honoring the lives of migrants who have died crossing the border. We invite you to walk with us in remembrance this May 25 - May 31, 2026, from Sásabe Sonora to Tucson, Arizona.
to register click here
Between May 23 and May 30, communities across Ohio are coming together for a statewide week of interfaith vigils in solidarity with people held in civil immigration detention (a.k.a. ICE jail). Faith leaders, organizers, and community members will raise their voices, hold space for reflection, and stand in collective action. This coordinated week of action calls for:
An end to ICE detention
Transparency on detention facility funding
An end to 287(g) agreements
People of faith, interfaith clergy, and allies will gather in prayer, song and reflection outside the Core civic ICE prison to demand that all its detained immigrants and asylum seekers receive their due process rights and have spiritual counsel while detained.
Join us Saturday morning, via Zoom, May 30th (10:30 am to Noon) when we will discuss the above revelatory book, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery.
to register RSVP to this Email: racialequitybuddies@gmail.com
Join Like-Minded (Lake and Geauga Counties) and others for a vigil at the Geauga County ICE Detention Facility on May 28 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM as part of the statewide Week of Interfaith Vigils across Ohio.
To register, click here
Join us to learn more about struggles for community self-determination and subsistence in southern Honduras, demands for corporate accountability, an end to ISDS, and the need for real energy democracy and climate justice.
IRTF is among the many organizations committed to human rights across the Americas urging the release of political prisoner Ruth López in El Salvador. May 18 marks one year since she was arrested at home in her pajamas on a Sunday at 9:30pm with the bogus charge of embezzlement. Ruth had been serving as lead human rights attorney for the organization Cristosal.
Despite Ruth’s request for a public trial, the Salvadoran government continues to pursue non-public proceedings, raising serious concerns about due process, transparency, and the protection of fundamental rights.
Click here to sign a petition to free Ruth.
Click here to share social media graphics for the campaign to free Ruth.
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