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Please Take Action to Affirm the Dignity of Human Life September 3rd, 2010

Teresa Lewis is scheduled to be executed September 23, 2010 in Virginia. She was convicted in 2002 of persuading two men to kill her husband and stepson. Teresa Lewis has been on death row in Virginia since June 2003.

Now 41 and a mother and grandmother, Teresa Lewis would be the first woman executed in Virginia since 1912.

In solidarity with the Virginia Catholic Bishops, the U.S. Catholic bishops and the Papal Nuncio, we ask you please to contact Governor McDonnell and urge him to commute Teresa Lewis’s sentence to life in prison.

TAKE ACTION HERE : CONTACT VA GOVERNOR TO STOP EXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 23.

Act Now for Responsible Finance and Debt Cancellation July 23rd, 2010

Please take action to press for responsible lending and desperately needed debt cancellation for poor countries – Click here for our Action Alert.

This Alert also includes an action to Make Mercury Pollution a Thing of the Past.

Learn more…

Action Alert: Stop Racial Profiling and Urge Financial Reform April 22nd, 2010

Help Stop Racial Profiling in Arizona

Whether you reside in the state or not, Arizona Governor Brewer needs to hear your opposition to the Anti-Immigrant bill now before her. Tell Governor Brewer to veto SB1070!

Tell Your Senators to Support Financial Reform

National Call-in Week – Call Your Senator Today!

Go to the Action Alert for details…

Action Alert: Carbon Fast and More… February 12th, 2010

February Action Alert

A ‘Lent Carbon Fast’ calendar is available from the Environmental Outreach Committee of the Archdiocese of Washington. Please consider using the Lent Carbon Fast Calendar as part of your Lenten discipline.

Take Action: Demand Financial Transparency – Tell the G20 to Create Financial Transparency and staunch the flow of capital out of poor countries.

December Action Alert – Let’s Avoid Another Meltdown! December 3rd, 2009

Take Action to Protect People and the Planet

- Support Creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
- Join the Call for Derivatives Reform
- Ring Your Church Bells – Send a Message to Copenhagen!

Learn more and take action – click here for our December Action Alert

October Action Alert: Update on Columban Priest Kidnapping and Action Urged on Climate Legislation October 22nd, 2009

The Columban Fathers are now asking that groups refrain from action in the case of the kidnapping of Fr. Mike Sinnott, due to the delicate nature of the situation. Your prayers for his safety are requested instead.

In addition, we urge your support of climate legislation pending in the Senate.

Read our latest Action Alert for details.

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