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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice

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Committed to building a movement to end poverty, led by the poor Text “Kairos” to 631-407-9136 linktr.ee/KairosCenter

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 08/07/2026
Days before America's 250th anniversary, the Kairos Center joined the Episcopal Diocese of New York and other faith and advocacy organizations in holding a vigil to admonish the recent removal of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian immigrant communities.
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 30/03/2026
This Palm Sunday, we joined Apache Stronghold at Oak Flat for prayer and resistance. A court transferred this sacred land to Resolution Copper, but the struggle continues. As Min. Pavey reflected: We know Empire's forces of death will never defeat the spiritual road that protects all sacred life.
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 26/03/2026
Link to resource bit.ly/NoKingsFaith No Kings Faith Resources include: DURING ACTION: No Kings! Interfaith Litany Litany: A Collective Commitment to Nonviolence We Believe Statements A Prayer for the People A Commitment to Non Violence IN REFLECTION No Kings Bible Scriptures & Study
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 25/03/2026
Important Links & Resources in preparation for No Kings 3! Visit: bit.ly/NoKingsSongs bit.ly/NoKingsFaith bit.ly/NoKings3DigitalToolkit bit.ly/WeAreTheMovement2026
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 17/03/2026
On 3/24, SCOTUS will hear oral argument in Noem v. Al Otro Lado, a case with major stakes for people seeking refuge in the US. We, will hold an interfaith vigil & rally on the steps of SCOTUS at 8 am ET. We declare "No turning back" on the legal/sacred right to seek asylum.
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 29/01/2026
HAPPENING NOW: This morning, hundreds of faith leaders from across the country convened in DC to demand that Congress give no money to ICE. Stay tuned or watch live. fb.watch/EXfkpRnQHn/
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 15/12/2025
The mistreatment of workers and the refusal to negotiate a fair contract by one of the richest corporations in the world is an affront to everything we hold dear. That is why veteran leaders alongside faith leaders are joining Starbucks Workers United to fight for a fair contract and living wages.
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 11/12/2025
Our families inside detention need us to take action wherever we are, right now! Join the Free Families Launch today at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT bit.ly/LAUNCHFF @freefamilies.bsky.social
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 02/12/2025
On this Giving Tuesday, join us as we continue to ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE. Help us reach our $10,000 Giving Tuesday goal! Donate today! kairoscenter.org/give/
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 23/11/2025
This evening, we begin the Advent of a Revolution and Birth of a Movement seasons at Freedom Church of the Poor with the launch of the Winter Offensive with the National Union of the Homeless. rsvp: bit.ly/FCOPSIGNUP
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 19/11/2025
JOIN US TONIGHT at 8pm to learn more and ask questions about the Young Organizers Survival Corps! Register: bit.ly/YOUNGORGANIZ...
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 18/11/2025
This is the tradition we stand in. This is the work that continues with the Young Organizers Survival Corps! Learn more or join an info session at bit.ly/YoungOrganizers #OrganizeThePoor #PoorPeoplesPower #HousingJustice #KairosCenter
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 12/11/2025
SPECIAL BIBLE STUDY ALERT–This Wednesday, 6pm ET, join Dr. David Carr at Freedom Church of the Poor for a powerful study of Christian Nationalism and the Hebrew Scriptures. Comment "Bible Study!" and we'll DM you the link to join.
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 31/10/2025
You’re invited! Join us next Thursday for an in-person launch event for We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor. We’ll gather to uplift the prayers, songs, and rituals that sustain our movements for justice. RSVP here: bit.ly/NOV6WPF
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 22/10/2025
📢📢The Kairos Center is thrilled to announce the Young Organizers Survival Corps. The Young Organizers Survival Corps is a 7-month experience connecting you with fellow activists, organizers, and young people who are hungry to get organized for the long haul and resist authoritarianism.
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 20/10/2025
Oct. 22nd @ 6pm join us for a virtual film screening led by Shun Tucker-Allen and Dom Kelly. "Severed" follows Mohamad Saleh, a teenager from Gaza who lost his leg at 12. His story is personal and emblematic of the thousands of Palestinians disabled by Israel’s genocide. kairos.org/freedomchurch
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 08/10/2025
You’re invited to our first in-person launch event for "We Pray Freedom." Join us for a powerful celebration of healing, remembrance, and collective action! 🕗 6:30pm ET 📍St. Augustine's Episcopal Church RSVP: linktr.ee/KairosCenter
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 06/10/2025
In 2024, 41.4% of Americans lived in poverty or one emergency away from it. As conditions and reporting get worse, we will all need to do three things: organize, organize, & organize! Full breakdown at kairos.ghost.io/poverty-numb... Huge thanks to @povertycenter.bsky.social for these estimates!
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 25/09/2025
“The liturgies found in this collection are not just words, but powerful acts of justice and compassion that invite us into right relationship with each other, with creation, and with God.” Richard Rohr, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation Visit: WePrayFreedom.org #WePrayFreedom
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 09/09/2025
✨ Launch day ✨ These prayers rise from the wisdom of poor and dispossessed communities—embodied practices that transform, empower & reclaim the sacred as collective action for justice. #WePrayFreedom 👉 bit.ly/WePrayFreedom
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 09/09/2025
✨ We Pray Freedom is out now—prayers + rituals for justice + liberation. 👉 bit.ly/WePrayFreedom These aren’t just prayers—they’re blueprints for liberation. #WePrayFreedom #WeSingFreedom #LiturgiesOfLiberation
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 08/09/2025
TOMORROW “We Pray Freedom” launches! (order in bio) "In a time of plenty marred by so much poverty, organizing for social, political, and economic change is holy work." –Charon Hribar from “Celebration”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 07/09/2025
2 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) "[Nehemiah] put the needs of the least of these who are most of us at the heart of the city -- at the heart of the society -- because the poor, the immigrants, the women, the LGBTQ people are the heart of God."–Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 06/09/2025
3 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) “God, let our city not enjoy peace until we have justice. Let us not wave the flag of unity until we have equity.” –Lindsey Krinks from “A Prayer for a City or Town”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 05/09/2025
4 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) "We join together with the ancient witnesses of our faiths, to weep, wail, and mourn until we finally get the nation's attention." –Rev. Dr. Jessica Williams "We will continue to organize and fight!" –Rev. Dr. Letiah Fraser
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 04/09/2025
5 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) "Love rises into action, love flows through us and among and beyond us to our siblings in exodus because love knows no borders.” –Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson from “A Prayer for Migrant Justice”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 03/09/2025
6 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) "Goddess born from the struggle between good and evil, guide us toward the light. In a world where plenty is possible, let us end hunger, thirst, and homelessness." –Shailly Gupta Barnes from “A Prayer for Diwali”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 02/09/2025
ONE WEEK LEFT to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) “No one is getting left behind this time, we get there together or never get there at all.” –Joshua Blaine from "We Get There Together, Passover Seder: The Ritual”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 01/09/2025
8 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) "We breathe as one with all life and dedicate our breath to remembering and protecting and taking good care of those most basic and essential elements of life -- for all."–Karenna Gore from “Liturgy for the Earth”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 31/08/2025
9 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) "If we get caught up in our rituals and don't hear the cry of the poor... then our fasting is in vain."–Jamel Coy Hudson from “A Ramadan Ritual”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 30/08/2025
10 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio) “Courage, my friend, you do not move alone. We will move with you, and sing your spirit home.” –Ciara Taylor from a South African Anti-Apartheid Movement Song
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 30/08/2025
Freedom Church of the Poor invites you to our final Black August service — a sacred space of remembrance, resistance, and renewal in this Season of Jubilee. Sunday, August 31st @ 6PM ET For info/RSVP: kairoscenter.org/freedomchurch
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 29/08/2025
Only 11 days until “We Pray Freedom” hits the shelves! (preorder link in bio) "Oramos por las almas de las personas fallecidas en los desiertos, en las montañas, en los rios y oceanos en su camino por una mejor vida." –ana g. lara lopez from “Día de los Muertos and All Saints' Day: The Prayer“
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 28/08/2025
Only 12 days until “We Pray Freedom” hits the shelves! (preorder link in bio) "May the Lord's holy fires alight upon the oppressive empire and make way for the kingdom of heaven on earth."–Tim Shenk from “Prayer for Pentecost”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 27/08/2025
Only 13 days until “We Pray Freedom” hits the shelves! (preorder link in bio) “May we hold each other fiercely with love through all that this short life brings." –Rev. West McNeill from “A Blessing for Peace and Resistance”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 26/08/2025
14 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! Link in bio. "We ring the bells for our best selves, yet to be. For our friends, Family, and all who join us in our quest for justice and an end to poverty amidst plenty." –Ashley Hufnagel from “A Bell Ceremony: The Ritual”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 25/08/2025
“We Pray Freedom helps us breathe. During disarray and turmoil, we need prayers, rituals, and words to give forth new life and help sustain and empower us." @gracejisunkim.bsky.social, professor of theology at Earlham School of Religion & author When God Became White and other books
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 25/08/2025
15 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! Link in bio. "We are called to care, encourage and lift up each other and not get weary nor lose heart in doing so." –Christine Lewis from “Gathering in the Garden: The Prayer/Poem”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 24/08/2025
16 days until “We Pray Freedom” is out! Preorder in bio. “For Indigenous people, all prayer is about healing. For wholeness. For balance in times of deep imbalance. For realignment." –Luis Mixcoatl Itztlacuiloh and Trini Tlazohteotl Rodriguez from “An Indigenous Offering of Gratitude: The Prayer”
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 24/08/2025
17 days until “We Pray Freedom” is published! Preorder in bio. “You are God who hears the cry of the poor. So we place our hope in you." – William Burnett from "The Potter's Field Liturgy" [updated 8/24]
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 23/08/2025
“We Pray Freedom is a powerful testament to the sacred call for justice and liberation, woven together by the voices of grassroots faith and community leaders.” Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, senior minister of @middlechurch.bsky.social & author of Fierce Love and The Just Love Story Bible #WePrayFreedom
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 22/08/2025
The countdown starts now--18 days until "We Pray Freedom" is out! Preorder in bio. "Joy is not a means to an end, but the experience of joy and love is the end, it is the point, it is the reason we come together."--Jonathan Lykes from "Chant of the Ancestors: The Story"
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 22/08/2025
“Each page of We Pray Freedom is testimony-evidence of God’s connection with and empowerment of real faith communities in times of actual transition, crisis, grief, hope, and triumph. Receive this evidence and its grounding as a gift.” @lisasharper.bsky.social #WePrayFreedom
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 20/08/2025
✨ Join us TONIGHT for a powerful gathering of resistance, renewal, and hope as we commemorate Black August during the season of Jubilee!
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 17/08/2025
📣 Black August Continues! 🖤🔥 This Sunday, August 17th, join Freedom Church of the Poor for a powerful service centered on “Agape Love.” 🗓 Sunday, August 17th 🕕 6PM ET | 5PM CT | 3PM PT
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 13/08/2025
Join us TONIGHT for a powerful gathering with Freedom Church of the Poor, featuring Tony Eskridge as he shares “Love Is, for Tyre” — a moving poem written in response to the killing of Tyre Nichols. 🕕 6PM ET | 5PM CT | 3PM PT 📍 Zoom only 📲 RSVP: kairoscenter.org/freedomchurch
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 11/08/2025
Join @investinourny.bsky.social on Wednesday, August 13th @ 11am in Foley Square to urge them into action NOW. It's time for a special session to #TaxTheRich and protect our communities. #SpecialSessionNow #TaxTheRich
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 11/08/2025
🚨 While billionaires get richer, millions of New Yorkers will get sicker, hungrier, and less safe. 🚨 Over 45 organizations across NY, representing thousands of New Yorkers, joined together, urging State Leaders to convene a special session and protect us from the Federal Budget Scam.
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 08/08/2025
Join Freedom Church of the Poor + powerful partners for our 3rd Annual Black August Commemoration—honoring the sacred Season of Jubilee with prayer, poetry, and prophetic witness. 🗓️ Sun, Aug 10 | 6PM ET / 5PM CT / 3PM PT 📍RSVP: kairoscenter.org/freedomchurch
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 30/07/2025
Join Freedom Church of the Poor for Black August: a season of mourning our martyrs and mobilizing for freedom. At FCOP, we honor this legacy by lifting up a God who breaks chains—a Christ who came to free the oppressed. RSVP @ kairoscenter.org/FreedomChurch
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