The St. Charles Center for Faith + Action
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At The Center we create spaces for people of all faiths to learn, unlearn and act; building a community grounded in equity and empathy.
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Learning Over Lunch
Where Faith Meets Community: A Conversation on Belonging
Join us at our upcoming Learning over Lunch as Lilian explores the deeply intertwined histories of immigration and incarceration in Louisiana. She will provide crucial context on these systemic issues and highlight how local communities of faith have honored the sacred practice of "welcoming the stranger" for hundreds of years. By reflecting on our state's own profound experiences with displacement and exclusion, Lilian will powerfully remind us that it remains our moral calling and duty to provide space and sanctuary for all our neighbors today.
Date: August 18th
Time: 12:00 P.M. CDT
Register for free here
Documentary Screening
ICE AIR: Inside America’s Secret Deportation Network
In partnership with the Louisiana Interchurch Conference, the Center will host a free screening of ICE AIR: Inside America’s Secret Deportation Network.
ICE AIR: Inside America’s Secret Deportation Network is a multi-state investigative journalism project examining the billion-dollar domestic transfer system operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The investigation exposes how thousands of detainees are shuffled daily across domestic airports and state lines—often hidden from public flight tracking data—before being removed from the country
Date: September 9th
Time: 6:00 P.M. (50 min. film)
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Solitary Gardens
Solitary Gardens: Freedom to Grow
What is a Solitary Garden? Solitary Gardens both directly and metaphorically ask us to imagine a landscape without prisons. We both directly and metaphorically ask us to imagine a landscape without prisons. Solitary Gardens transforms solitary confinement cells into living garden beds. The beds are designed and remotely gardened by incarcerated collaborators, known as Solitary Gardeners and are tended by community members on the outside.
Donate to the Center
As you consider your gifts throughout the year, we hope you will include the St. Charles Center for Faith + Action. Each donation helps create a community that includes less incarceration and more healing.
Our Commitment to Justice
The Center embraces movements for justice and liberation, partnering with leaders from BIPOC communities. We also affirm the following Land Acknowledgment: We acknowledge that we are on Bulbancha, now called New Orleans. Bulbancha, which means place of many tongues, unceded land of the Chitimacha, the Houma, the Chahta, Yakni (Choctaw), the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha, and all Indigenous peoples of this region.