📢 Faith Leaders Must Rise With The People
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In this community, we will always respect our different religious beliefs! I would like to wish all who are celebrating a happy Easter (April 20), happy Passover (April 12-20), and a year of spiritual rewards for all who celebrated Ramadan (February 28-March 29). Wishing you all a year of joyful abundance, peace, and renewed faith. May we all work together for a world that respects and empowers our different religious beliefs.
Faith in Action: Why Prayers Alone Are Not Enough
It is deeply deceitful to pray for a solution while doing nothing to fix the problem. Prayer can be a source of strength, comfort, and reflection—but without action, it becomes a shield for inaction. Throughout history, people of faith have not only prayed for justice, peace, and healing—they have fought for it. They've marched, protested, built coalitions, opened their doors, and risked everything for a better world.
Today, too many sit in silence while injustice spreads, believing that prayer alone will change what only action can.
We face a world plagued by economic inequality, mass homelessness, climate devastation, rising authoritarianism, and systems rigged against everyday people. When spiritual leaders—whether pastors, rabbis, imams, or priests—stay silent while billionaires tighten their grip on power, hatred spreads like wildfire, and the most vulnerable are pushed to the margins, they’re not just avoiding controversy—they’re abandoning their sacred duty to stand with the people.
And yet, many religious leaders preach hope without demanding justice, offer prayers without demanding accountability, and call for peace without confronting the root causes of suffering. This is not faith—it’s avoidance.
Silence in the face of injustice is complicity. We don't need more empty words. We need leaders of faith who walk with the people, speak uncomfortable truths, and call out injustice from the pulpit.
Religious institutions have immense influence. When they use that influence to challenge unjust laws, organize aid, or demand economic and racial justice, they awaken the moral conscience of entire communities. Imagine the change we could create if every house of worship became a hub for civic engagement, mutual aid, and grassroots power. Imagine if every sermon called for housing the unhoused, feeding the hungry, sheltering the asylum seeker, protecting democracy, and lifting up the voices of the oppressed.
Faith must move us. It must inspire us to act, speak up, and love boldly. If your prayer asks God to heal the world, your hands should be building that world. If your sermon preaches hope, it must also call people to action.
It’s time we challenge our religious leaders: Will you remain comfortable in silence? Or will you rise with the people and speak out for justice, equity, and progress?
Pray, yes—but then speak out, show up, and empower others to act—because faith without action is not enough. Please join us to 📨 Send a letter to Urge Religious Leaders Nationwide to Stand Up and tell the TRUTH about immigrants:
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