21ST ANNUAL PEDAL FOR PEACE BIKE-A-THON

Save the date for:

The Chicago Metropolitan Sanctuary Alliance 21st Annual Pedal for Peace Bike-a-thon
To support Peace with Justice in Latin America

Sunday, October 5, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

Sponsored by:
Chicago Metropolitan Sanctuary Alliance
Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities Chicago-Guatemala Partnership

Chicago Colombia Sanctuary Project is looking for church sponsors

The Chicago Colombia Sanctuary Project has received multiple requests for refuge from Colombian human rights workers who are under threat and must leave Colombia. CCSP is looking for congregations in the Chicago area who would be willing to host a Colombian individual or family.

A sanctuary recipient will need respite & hospitality, including:

Kansas City Sanctuary Family Accepts an Immigrant Family into Sanctuary


On Friday, May 16, 2008, People of Faith for Hospitality & Justice and New Sanctuary Movement Coalition of Greater Kansas City accepted an immigrant family into Sanctuary.

For Immediate Release: Chicagoans Join the Migrant Trail

We Walk for Life - A 75 mile walk from
Sásabe, Sonora, MX to Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Urgent Action! Women's Human Rights Center in Mexico under threat! Please write!

Coordinator Luz Esthela Castro Rodriguez and other staff members of the Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres in Chihuahua City, Mexico, received two death threats by phone on March 13.  The threats may come because they have publicly challenged violence against women in Mexico through protests and have implicated government actors in that violence through a recently proposed campaign to end the involvement of military forces in policing operations.

Campaign to end Modern-day Slavery and Sweatshops in the Fields

Join the petition campaign to end modern-day slavery and sweatshops in the fields! 

Be a part of history... The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is launching a national petition drive calling on Burger King and other food industry leaders to work with the CIW to...

Chicago Tribune: More clergy visits sought for those awaiting deportation

An article in the Chicago Tribune quoting CMSA's New Sanctuary Public Policy Coordinator Danielle Wegman...

Take Action! Bishop Ramazzini Threatened in Guatemala

Dear friends of CMSA,

Monseñor Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri, bishop of the Diocese of San Marcos and president of the Guatemalan Bishop's Conference, suffered a death threat on March 31, 2008. In the city of San Marcos, Guatemala, a nun from the bishop's diocese was threatened by two unknown individuals who stopped her vehicle with the intent to send a death threat to Bishop Ramazzini.

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