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Voices for Justice

Let your voice be heard.

Get involved two ways:

    1. Join a leadership team that provides resources and tools to empower our community to work for justice through education and formation.  

    2. Join an e-network and receive one or two e-mails each month inviting you to contact your elected officials about justice issues relevant to our community. You’ll also learn about upcoming justice activities related to our advocacy work.

Sign up for Voices for Justice e-mails.

Raise your voice for these issues:

•    Refugees and immigration

•    Education gap

•    Human trafficking

•    Health care reform

How does our faith connect to advocacy?

•    Catholic Social Teaching

•    Faithful Citizenship — United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Tools for Advocacy

•    Find my elected officials

•    Tips for contacting elected officials

•    Heading Home Hennepin

•    Downtown Coalition to End Homelessness (DCEH)

Advocacy Partners

•    ​Joint Religious Legislative Coalition (JRLC)

•    Archdiocesan Office for Social Justice (OSJ)

•    The Minnesota Catholic Conference

•    Bread for the World

Contact Janice 612.317.3477, with questions or to get more involved in advocating for justice.

Upcoming Events

When Home Won't Let You Stay
Jul 7 to Jul 28
2019
When Home Won't Let You Stay Exhibition
Sunday
at
(All day)
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Stories of Refugees in AmericaPhotographs by Jim BoweyExhibition: June 15 – July 28, 2019Community Event:  Thursday July 18, 6-8:00 PM  WHEN HOME WON’T LET YOU ...
School supplies
Jul 28
2019
School Supply Drive
Sunday
at
(All day)
School Supply Drive to benefit Ascension Catholic School and children who arrived in Minneapolis as refugees or asylees. Donations can be dropped off at weekend masses through Sunday...
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School supplies
Aug 4
2019
School Supply Drive
Sunday
at
(All day)
School Supply Drive to benefit Ascension Catholic School and children who arrived in Minneapolis as refugees or asylees. Donations can be dropped off at weekend masses through Sunday...
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School supplies
Aug 11
2019
School Supply Drive
Sunday
at
(All day)
School Supply Drive to benefit Ascension Catholic School and children who arrived in Minneapolis as refugees or asylees. Donations can be dropped off at weekend masses through Sunday...
Register
School supplies
Aug 11
2019
School Supply Volunteer Packing Event
Sunday
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7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
The Basilica Refugee Committee is sponsoring a School Supply Drive to benefit students attending the Church of the Ascension Catholic School.Supplies Needed per Backpack1 Backpack 24...
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Aug 11
2019
Come Together
Sunday
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2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Saint Joseph Chapel, Ground Level Come Together is a monthly gathering of people who attend a variety of churches and faith-based organizations around the Twin Cities of Minneapolis...
Aug 13
2019
ICOM Vigil at the Whipple Federal Building
Tuesday
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7:30 AM
Whipple Federal Building1 Federal Drive, St. Paul Join members of the Interfaith Coalition on Immigration (ICOM) on the second Tuesday of every month. Raise your voice in prayer and protest about the...
Aug 13
2019
ICOM Vigil at the Whipple Federal Building
Tuesday
at
7:30 AM
Whipple Federal Building1 Federal Drive, St. Paul Join members of the Interfaith Coalition on Immigration (ICOM) on the second Tuesday of every month. Raise your voice in prayer and protest about the...
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Aug 18
2019
Blanket Drive
Sunday
at
(All day)
The Basilica will collect new or gently used blankets to be donated to Bridging. Inc., providing support to families transitioning out of homelessness and poverty. All denotations are to be clean and...
Basilica Serves_header
Aug 25
2019
Blanket Drive
Sunday
at
(All day)
The Basilica will collect new or gently used blankets to be donated to Bridging. Inc., providing support to families transitioning out of homelessness and poverty. All denotations are to be clean and...