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The
Convening
WASHINGTON DC
January 29, 2007
On January 29, 2007 representatives from 18 cities, 12 religious
traditions and 7 denominational and interdenominational organizations
 joined together
to listen to the experience of immigrant families fighting deportation,
and to strategize how to protect parents and children from being
torn apart until there is just comprehensive immigration reform.
The New Sanctuary Movement was birthed that weekend with the
goal of protecting immigrant families from unjust deportation,
affirming and making visible these families as children of God
and awakening the moral imagination of the country through prayer
and witness.
Click Here for a list of representatives present at the convening:
Cities/States:
Denominational/Interdenominational National Leadership Present:
Unitarian Universalist, United Church of Christ, Episcopal, United
Methodist, Union of Reform Judaism, Interfaith Worker Justice.
Additional religious traditions: Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian,
American Friends Service Committee, Evangelical Christian, Muslim,
Sikh
CONSENSUS
Guiding principles or values:
Faith platform: focus on faith-based moral principles
Moving immigrants from victim to witness
Diversity
Ensuring the dignity of those we serve and those who oppose us
Open public witness being willing to take the consequences of
our actions
Goals:
To protect immigrant workers and families from unjust deportation
To change the public debate
To awaken the moral imagination of the country
To make visible immigrant workers and families as children of
God
We are united in opposing the current series of raids and ensuing
deportations, and we agree to call for an end to these practices
as they separate children from their families until our broken
immigration system is fixed.
LINKS
See The Convening,
Washington D.C.
See
Overview, Goals and Structure of the New Sanctuary Movement
See
About the Coordinating Organizations
See
Prophetic Hospitality: Strategies for A New Movement
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