LA Faith Leaders Pray for Immigrant Rights and Peaceful Resistance

A Call to Moral and Spiritual Action

• 💡 The launch of a "summer of resistance" is framed not just as a justice or human rights issue, but as a moral and spiritual issue.
• 🎯 Clergy are called to step up and lead a prayer for the community, emphasizing the need for faith to guide their actions.

Prayer for Immigrant Community

• 🙏 The prayer invokes God as the creator of all, emphasizing that everyone is created in the divine image and is a sacred child of the same God.
• 🌍 Blessings are asked for immigrant sisters and brothers who are part of the fabric of the city.
• 🤝 The prayer calls for protection, unity, and the courage to speak up and rise up together.

Embodying Faith and Resistance

• ❤️ The prayer asks for strength to stand together for love, mercy, compassion, and justice.
• 🏘️ It calls for embodying the teachings of loving one's neighbors as oneself.
• ✊ Faith leaders are urged to be a presence of resistance and moral witness during these 30 days.
• ✅ The prayer concludes with a plea to embody these values in the days to come, in God's many names.