"Pray - Reflect - Act" During Religious Freedom Week, June 22-29, 2018

Religious Freedom Week will take place from June 22-29, 2018. The observance begins with the feast day of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, includes the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and ends with the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. 

Following the week's theme,  Serving Others in God's Love, Catholics across the U.S. are encouraged to reflect on the importance of religious freedom if the Church is to have the space to continue to serve in areas like education, adoption and foster care, health care, and migration and refugee services. We are also invited to pray for our brothers and sisters who face intense persecution in other parts of the world.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offers "Pray - Reflect - Act" one-pagers-one for each day of the week on different religious liberty topics. The materials are meant to inspire people to learn more about religious liberty from a Catholic perspective, to pray about particular issues, and give them the tools to act on what they learn, whether it's by finding ways for their parish to serve their community or perhaps even by contacting their lawmakers to promote legislation supporting religious liberty.

More information and additional religious liberty resources are available at www.usccb.org/ReligiousFreedomWeek.