Shakeel Syed is the executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California. In 2006, the council organized a meeting between hajj tour directors and imams leading the pilgrimage and U.S. Customs and TSA officials at Los Angeles International Airport. The council repeated the meeting in 2007 and 2012 as a town hall event open to […]

Jan. 29, 2013, The Dallas Morning News blog post which takes offense to the belief that the religious left needs to be more combative to gain traction in the national conversation.

“Voting With a Clear Conscience” by the Rev. Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life, a vocal group in the Catholic campaign to end legal abortion.

Read a May 23, 2011, article from the Washington Examiner about the coalition of religious groups forming to back Maryland’s version of the DREAM Act.

Read a May 31, 2012, article from the Catholic News Agency about the 2012 Regional Bishops’ Consultation on Migration, held May 28-30 in Santo Domingo, where bishops denounced certain states’ immigration laws.

Jan. 11, 2013, The Washington Post article on what the religious left must do to gain more national and media attention.

Read a June 11, 2012, story at Catholic World News about the hierarchy’s opposition to an alternative immigration reform bill sponsored by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.

During the 2004 campaign, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops also issued a statement titled “Catholics in Political Life,” which sets out principles for Catholic candidates. On March 10, 2006, the bishops followed that up with a “Statement on Responsibilities of Catholics in Public Life.”

In June 2012, a broad coalition of evangelical leaders unveiled an Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform, which was seen as an important step in solidifying faith-based support for reform.