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Standing Together on Spiritual Ground Retreat
To register, please complete the form below. For questions, email events@floridachurches.org. Faith Leaders Advancing Shared Hope 2019
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5th Assembly Florida Interfaith Climate Actions Network
Register to attend Host & Convener Florida Council of Churches See agenda. Bring what you would like to accomplish in 2019 to affect Florida’s policies in our water-enriched peninsula Praise and celebrate what’s been accomplished to address climate and environmental equity in Florida Tour the Parramore neighborhood Friday noon Network around common issues and with Read more
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Our Hearts Are Broken
Download PDF Version O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Habakkuk 1:2 NRSV Our hearts are broken, and we grieve as one with the families of the victims in Parkland, Florida. As the Read more
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2018 St. Petersburg MLK Memorial Service
The Rev. Dr. Russell L. Meyer, Executive Director, delivered the keynote address at the 39 annual Interfaith MLK Memorial Services on Sunday, January 14, 2018, at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Cathedral. Here is a link to the text of his remarks: Walking Together with Compassion
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Sign Letter to Oppose Forcing Police to Act Like ICE
In the first week of the 2018 Florida Legislative Session, the House Judiciary Committee sent HB 9 directly to the floor and it passed. Last year, hundreds of faith leaders opposed withdrawing from refugee resettlement because faith values embrace the immigrant and the refugee. Now comes the call to oppose Read more
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Declare Moratorium on Execution
Florida leads the nation in exoneration of innocent persons sentenced to death at 27 since 1973. More than half of them are Black – an indisputable sign of racism working in the state criminal justice system. We’ll spend close to a billion dollars trying to execute the nearly 350 on death Read more