Prayer and Fasting Campaign on Budget Cuts
An interfaith coalition is launching a prayer and fasting campaign to protect federal funding for programs that help the poor.

An interfaith coalition is launching a prayer and fasting campaign to protect federal funding for programs that help the poor.
A progressive evangelical says how you cut the federal deficit is a moral question.
On Dec. 14 religious leaders held a prayer summit and Jericho March on Capitol Hill to urge senators to vote for a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country by their parents and who go on to attend college or serve in the military.
President Obama’s advisory panel of religious and community leaders released its final report with dozens of policy recommendations on issues including poverty, climate change, and interfaith cooperation.
The financial crisis is a moral crisis, says religious leader Jim Wallis, and repairing the economy will require a moral reawakening.
Watch more of Bob Abernethy's interview with Jim Wallis about values, the economy, and financial reform.
Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, a member of the president’s faith advisory council, talks about the new access religious moderates and liberals have to the White House.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton talks with Rev. Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine and author of THE GREAT AWAKENING, about how the financial crisis may affect the presidential campaign.
The financial crisis and proposals to solve it: What do religious voices have to say?
The interfaith gathering last Sunday (August 24) and the events all week are diverse in terms of representing different religions, but not in terms of ideology, which is progressive across the faiths.

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