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Ideas for Action

Get ideas for how you and your congregation can get involved.

Sign Our Statements

Our faiths compel us to stand with immigrants in their struggle for justice.

Support the Sanctuary Movement

Find out more about how you can help our local immigrant community.

Bible Study

Becoming the Church Together: Immigration, the Bible & Our New Neighbors


From the Blog

Closing Doors and Closing Borders
Sanctuary Leaders Threatened by Impossible Fines
Raleigh Report – April 22, 2019
Raleigh Report – April 11, 2019

Immigrant rights is one of the defining civil rights struggles of our time. Our work at the Council focuses on providing faith-based resources for congregations to think and speak theologically about our encounters with our neighbors. At the same time, we are helping to mobilize people of faith, connecting them with grassroots movements and legislative efforts to empower immigrants here in North Carolina.

Background

Since its inception more than 75 years ago, the Council has been actively pursuing a platform of peace and social justice across the state. One of the founding issues for us in 1935 was opposition to segregation and support for racial justice; the Council has long supported the rights of vulnerable and excluded people.

Our commitment to the local immigrant community expands to advocating for the rights of farmworkers, refugees, asylees, and migrants from all over the world. This commitment remains consistent with our founding principles since current immigrants (especially those who are not documented) are a significant population of vulnerable and excluded people. Recently, we helped to organize the Ecumenical Immigration Alliance – a statewide, interfaith coalition of people of faith affirming hospitality over hostility when it comes our immigrant neighbors.

Find Out More

The NC Sanctuary Coalition
Faith-Based Links
Immigration Resources
For You Were Once a Stranger: Immigration in the U.S. through the Lens of Faith

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Rachel Baker, Immigration Advocacy Program Coordinator
27 Horne St.
Raleigh, NC 27607
(919) 828-6501
rachel@ncchurches.org

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