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Film Discussion Guide

The National Parks: America’s Best Idea

As we celebrate God’s Creation on Earth Day, this film guide for Ken Burn’s National Parks series offers reflection questions on the beautifully photographed documentary, whose visuals inspire...
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Prayer

Choosing the Path of Peace: Remembering All Those Who Lost Their Lives to Gun Violence

We join in the mourning of the victims of the most recent mass shooting and recommit ourselves to the path of nonviolence and peace.  
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Creative Voice

One Woman’s Courage to Break the Silence Surrounding Violence against Women

This interview with Catherine Teresa Harris, One Woman’s Courage to Break the Silence Surrounding Violence against Women, provides moving first-person testimony from a brave woman who has been on a...
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Reflection

A Journey of Healing and Reconciliation Through Restorative Justice

Education for Justice's 2018 Lenten Reflections are offered by the Catholic Mobilizing Network, a national Catholic organization working to end the death penalty and promote restorative justice....
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Reflection

Women in Solidarity for the Common Good

The reflection on Women in Solidarity for the Common Good explores how values of Catholic social teaching are reflected in recent women’s joint efforts to create a more just culture for all women,...
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Litany

Women in our Midst: Promoting the Right to Dignity, Truth, and Justice

This litany celebrates courageous women who are defending the human rights of the oppressed in countries around the world (March 24 is the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning...
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Prayer

A Psalm of Water

In celebration of World Water Day on March 22, this poetic prayer sings a song to God in gratitude for the gift of water.  
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Prayer

Prayer to End Harassment

The Prayer to End Harassment reminds us we are all diminished when any one is disrespected, harassed, verbally or physically abused but we can all become part of the healing of victims and the...
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Prayer

Prayer for Women Activists

This prayer holds up the community of women activists who use their words to defend the oppressed, marginalized, and forgotten among us.  
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Prayer

The Right to Home: Rachel Corrie

In this prayer, we mourn all those unjustly losing their homes in the occupied territories in Israel, and we remember Rachel Corrie, who put her life on the line as she stood firmly for their...
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Film Discussion Guide

The Testimony

The Testimony film discussion guide reviews a documentary about trial in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of 39 soldiers charged with gang raping of hundreds of women in the village of Minova...
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Calendar

March 2018: Fostering a Culture of Peace by Ending Gender-based Violence

This month's calendar offers daily reflections and actions to celebrate EFJ's theme for the month of March 2018: Fostering a Culture of Peace by Ending Gender-based Violence.