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Candidates Address Issues At Nonpartisan Forums Across Proviso Township
CSPL sponsored the Proviso Votes candidates forum in February 2025.
MSN: Faith leaders protest ICE crackdown outside Chicago field office
Priests, nuns and lay leaders from the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership on Ash Wednesday gathered outside the ICE Chicago Field Office to peacefully protest the arrests, detentions and deportations that have been carried out in the Trump administration.
WGNTV: Priests, nuns, faith leaders protest ICE actions outside Chicago field office
As Mayor Brandon Johnson was defending Chicago’s sanctuary city status at a congressional hearing focused on immigration policies, a group of priests, nuns and lay leaders were gathering in protest outside the Chicago field office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The midday Ash Wednesday gathering was organized by the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership in protest of the arrests, detentions and deportations ICE has carried out since the start of the second Trump administration.
Telemundo: Líderes religiosos protestan en contra de las deportaciones
TELEMUNDO: At a peaceful protest on Ash Wednesday, CSPL community members called upon ICE to cease raids, arrests, detentions, and deportations against our immigrant communities.
PHOTO GALLERY - ICE: Repent from Complicity in Systemic Sin
At a peaceful protest on Ash Wednesday, CSPL community members called upon ICE to cease raids, arrests, detentions, and deportations against our immigrant communities.
US Catholic || Catholic organizers on the next 4 years of justice work
WGN-TV
WGN-TV || Coalition urges action on youth mental health, gun violence in Illinois during march on Near North Side
WGN-TV
Chicago Catholic || Coalition’s posada supports new migrants
Chicago Catholic
Chicago Catholic || St. Oscar Romero parishioners look to the future
Chicago Catholic
In Chicago: Latino Studies Students Learn Spiritual Leadership Skills during Easter Monday Workshop
A group of students from the Institute for Latino Studies embarked on a trip to Chicago on Easter Monday. Their mission was to meet with the Coalition of Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL) and partake in an immersive Chicagoan experience.
Village Free Press || Maywood trustee candidates pledge focus on parks
Village Free Press
Courthouse News Service || Researchers sound alarm on Illinois child care crisis
Courthouse News Service
WGN-TV || Illinois Childcare for All Rally
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Commonweal || Making Change from the Ground Up
Commonweal
Faith & Leadership || A Chicago-area coalition trains leaders in organizing and Catholic social teaching
Faith & Leadership
Catholic News Service || Local leaders, using Catholic social teaching, needed for true change
“True change is only going to come from grassroots communities. It’s going to come from the ground up,” said Okinczyc-Cruz.
“Most importantly, communities have to be organized,” he added. “They have to build collective power. They have to build relationship with one another. They have to do it in the public square … to achieve the type of society that God is calling us to build.”