CRLN Luncheon on Thursday, Nov 4, with Honduras Jesuit Leader

Please mark your calendar for 12:00 noon2:00 pm Thursday, November 4, 2010, for CRLN’s annual membership luncheon, closing CRLN’s 20th Anniversary year.

CRLN has invited Father Ismael “Melo” Moreno (Padre Melo) – a human rights defender under threat in Honduras – as its luncheon speaker this year.  Born (1958) and ordained (1989) in El Progreso, Honduras, Padre Melo did his concluding theological studies under Fr. Ignacio Ellacuría, rector of the Jesuit’s Universidad Centro Americana in El Salvador who was among the six Jesuit priests assassinated by the Salvadoran military.

Padre Melo is the director of Radio Progreso, a Jesuit-run radio station in El Progreso, Honduras which reaches 12 of Honduras’ 18 departments.  Since illegal coup d’état in Honduras last year, the coup regime has repeatedly shut down Radio Progreso, one of the few independent news sources in Honduras denouncing the coup and the widespread human rights abuses accompanying the coup.  Padre Melo also directs the Jesuit think tank Equipo de Reflexión, Información y Comunicación (ERIC), which engages the public to analyze and discuss contemporary issues. 

Since January 2010, when President Lobo was installed after militarized elections carried out under the coup regime, Fr. Melo has received systematic and serious death threats.  In response to these threats, the Central America Jesuit Province has issued a declaration in support of Fr. Melo and called for an investigation.  Despite going into hiding for a time, the threats remain. 

Honduras is perhaps the most important U.S. policy concern in Latin America at this time.  While President Obama initially condemned the coup as “not legal”, the State Department has consistently accommodated the coup regime and its successor government.  Inexplicably, the Obama Administration has publicly remained silent about the flood of continuing human rights violations: assassinations, torture, rapes, unlawful incarcerations, death threats, and intimidation.

Since the coup, two CRLN staffers and three CRLN board members have traveled to Honduras and human rights observers and to accompany those resisting the coup.

Background – Reporters W/O Borders: Journalists Under Threat in Honduras 04 June 2010

http://en.rsf.org/honduras-300-soldiers-and-police-storm-04-06-2010,37673.html

Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN)
4750 N. Sheridan Road #429, Chicago, IL 60640USA      
Tel: 773.293.2964

DATE:             Thursday – September 23, 2010
TIME:              7:00 PM
LOCATION:   615 W. Wellington, Chicago IL 60657
ROOM:            Narthex

DATE:             Sunday – September 19, 2010
TIME:              Following Worship
LOCATION:   615 W. Wellington, Chicago IL 60657
ROOM:            Narthex

DATE:             Monday – September 13, 2010
TIME:              7:00 PM
LOCATION:   615 W. Wellington, Chicago IL 60657
ROOM:            West Class Room

DATE:             Sunday – September 12, 2010
TIME:              5:30 PM
LOCATION:   3044 W. Logan Blvd.  Apt. 3

Our September Peace & Justice Song Circle will be hosted by Liz & Martin Dyrst (directions below), recently returned to Chicago from five years in Mexico.  Help welcome them back by filling their home with music.  Potluck at 5:30, singing will start around 6:30

If traveling on 90/94, get off at the Diversy/California exit.  The Dyrsts are 2 blocks south and 6 blocks west of that exit.  On CTA, get off at the Logan Square blue line stop and walk two blocks east on Logan Blvd.

Please rsvp to Liz Dyrst lmdyrst@gmail.com, 773-234-3044 or Dave Martin davemartin777@comcast.net, 630-768-9305.

DATE:             Wednesday – September 8, 2010
TIME:              7:00 PM
LOCATION:   At the home of Pam & Lan Richart

DATE:             Sunday – September 5, 2010
TIME:              10:30 AM
LOCATION:   615 W. Wellington, Chicago IL 60657
ROOM:           Sanctuary

15th Sunday after Pentecost
Communion Sunday 

Rev. Craig Mousin – preaching
Rev. Dan Dale – Liturgist

LINKS:

View the sermon for Sunday September 5, 2010 here (to be posted later)

View the Worship Bulletin for Sunday September 5, 2010 here (to be posted later)

View the lectionary texts here

View the liturgist’s comments here (to be posted later)

DATE:              Friday – September 3, 2010
TIME:              7:15 AM
LOCATION:  Broadview Detention Center (1930 Beach St, Broadview, IL 60153)

The Wellington New Sanctuary Task Force would like to invite you to join us on Friday, September 3rd at 7:15AM in a prayer vigil at Broadview Immigration Processing Center to support those who are in Immigration Detention, the families of those in detention and be a public witness to the injustices of our immigration system.

Those on the north side of the city will meet at the Carwash on Broadway Ave and Ainslie at 6:15am to carpool together. Let me know if others are interested in coordinating carpools from other areas of the city.

If you will be joining us, please call Jenny Dale at 773-551-1057 or e-mail her at jdale@chicagosanctuary.org

Directions: The Broadview Center is located at 1930 Beach St, Broadview, IL 60153.
From the loop take I-290 W to South 25th Ave exit, 18A, turn right at Lexington St., Turn Left on Beach St.

Wellington Ave UCC participates at the vigil on the 1st Friday of every month.

DATE:          Every Sunday
TIME:           9:30 AM
LOCATION:   615 W. Wellington, Chicago IL 60657
ROOM:         Sanctuary

There will be open music rehearsal in the Sanctuary every Sunday at 9:30 AM.  Everyone is welcome!

(CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE MUSIC MINISTRY PAGE)

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