Amnesty International’s “Write for Rights” is an activity during Advent that the Sisters of St. Joseph have embraced for ten years - 10 years!!
Each December 10th we join with global citizens to write letters to plead with leaders of countries to free people unjustly incarcerated for working on behalf of social justice and peace. We come together as a group of women armed with pen and paper as well as the names and stories of people around the world who have been apprehended on false and unjust premises.
Sisters Ann & Kitty pens ready!
This year our letters include calls for freedom and justice for a Chinese citizen journalist jailed in 2020 for reporting on the unfolding of the COVID-19 outbreaks in Wuhan. We also advocate for a Guatemalan man jailed seven years now for being a courageous defender of the rights of his people. Another case involves a young woman who was arrested at the Sudan border in 2012 and has never been heard from since that time.
Our letters of advocacy, joined to thousands of others around the world do make a difference. The diligent workers and volunteers of Amnesty International keep us abreast of people who have been freed from their unjust situations. Regardless of age or circumstance, one letter written with love and compassion can make a huge difference - it changes the life of one who we will never meet.
-Sister Jean Moylan, csj
Pictured above, the Sisters hard at work, letter-writing.
We wrote 100 letters so far this year! #W4R21