May 2023 Vigil
Interfaith Coalition on Immigration engages in courageous spiritual, multicultural action in solidarity with immigrants and refugees to achieve justice and stand up to systems of oppression.
Vigils
March 2023 Vigil
The sanctuary movement and the activism around immigration issues ebbs and flows depending on what is in the news. This is long-term, not short-term work. How do we sustain ourselves in the midst of this ongoing human need, so that we can be best able to be useful in the movement? The March vigil is
February 2023 Vigil
The host for February’s vigil will be COPAL. Established in 2018, COPAL (Communities Organizing Latino Power and Action) is a member-based organization that works to improve the quality of life for Latino American families. Their strategic roadmap outlines specific objectives for the period of 2023-2025 based on three pillars: building collective power, transforming system, and creating opportunities. Join
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January 2023 Vigil
This month our vigil theme will be “Immigrant Justice the Most Important Mitzvah”. It will be hosted by Temple Israel of Minneapolis at the Bishop Whipple Building on January 10th at 7:30 AM. Hear from synagogue leaders with a collection of prayers, readings, and stories which illustrate why we’re so often commanded to work towards immigrant justice and love
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December 2022 Vigil
This month our vigil theme will be “Who Will Welcome Us? The Journey of Advent.” It will be hosted by St. Joan of Arc Catholic Community at the Bishop Whipple Building on December 13th at 7:30 AM. Join us in person or online for prayer and music as we lift up our voices on behalf of
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November 2022 Vigil
Stand Together for Immigrants This month our theme will be “Stand Together for Immigrants”. It will be hosted by Plymouth Congressional Church at the Bishop Whipple building on November 8th, at 7:30 AM. Join us in person or online for prayer and story sharing as we lift up the voices of immigrants we know.
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October 2022 Vigil
Please join ICOM and our hosts Edina Community Lutheran Church at our Vigil at the Whipple Federal Building at 7:30 am on Tuesday October 11, 2022.Theme: Walking with asylum-seekersSpeakers: Karen Newcomer and Mark Joffe from ACT-TC and Beth Nelson Chase from LIRS Poem by Brian Bilston. Meant to be read aloud, first from top to bottom
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September 2022 Vigil
Building the Web Toward Immigration Justice Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part – UU Principles The immigration system in the United States is inhumane. It criminalizes migration, separates families, incarcerates people in detention jails. Save the date and plan to join First Universalist Church Sanctuary and Resistance,
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August 2022 Vigil
JOIN us for the August ICOM Prayer Vigil Co-hosted by St. Mary’s Basilica Immigrant Support Ministry, Maryknoll Lay Missioners, and the Justice Commission of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and Consociates Speakers Most Reverend Bernard Hebda of the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Family, (mother and adult son) from Ascension Catholic Church,