Activists with “We the People. We the Voters” Organization supporting Catholic Nuns on Quest

Take a look at the latest update from the bus tour as of this article by Dawn Cherie Araujo, a staff writer based at the Global Sisters Report from Kansas City, Missouri. It is from 11:30 a.m. on September 17th:

After a pause, the eight sisters who will join Campbell on the Iowa leg of the tour took to the stage introduced themselves and asked the crowd ice-breaker questions about hope and civic engagement. Joe Biden will take the stage momentarily, amid rumors that he will attend his own political fundraiser later today. Keep up with Nuns on the Bus throughout the whole tour. Bookmark this page to check in any time. We’ll have a full news story for you this afternoon with quotes and highlights.

Check this great story out at NETWORK’s Nuns on the Bus the website:

NETWORK’s Nuns on the Bus is a campaign of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, which was founded by 47 Catholic Sisters more than 40 years ago. Our mission is to be a Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace — that educates, organizes and lobbies for economic and social transformation.

In the four decades since our founding, NETWORK has grown into what it is today – a vibrant testimony to that vision. Many thousands of NETWORK members and activists work to ensure that our justice advocacy continues to influence and inspire our elected officials, and our work is recognized by the media and public officials. NETWORK does not endorse political candidates. We proudly partner with the NETWORK Education Program, our 501(c)(3) sister organization.

In the summer of 2012, NETWORK organized the first “Nuns on the Bus” tour, during which Catholic Sisters traveled through nine states to protest the effects of cuts to federal safety-net spending proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan. In 2013, we travelled 6,500 miles across the country to “Raise Our Voices” for comprehensive immigration reform.

Today, NETWORK is also highly visible and active on other critical issues such as peacemaking, comprehensive immigration reform, housing, poverty, federal budget priorities, trade and hunger. It is because of the continued involvement of hundreds of congregations of women religious and thousands of individual Sisters, as well as that of parishes, small faith communities, religious congregations of brothers and priests, and thousands of individual activists that NETWORK continues to be effective and faithful to its mission of lobbying, organizing and educating for a nation and world rooted in justice.

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