Faith leaders hold prayer vigil to support $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Faith leaders gathered in prayer and reflection Sept. 23 to call on lawmakers to push for the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill, which they said advances racial equity, climate action, immigration, health care and an economy that works for all.

The group also presented Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas a petition with signatures from 7,000 people of faith who support the bill.

"We have a preferential option for the poor [that] is central to our Catholic social teaching, and this process [reconciliation] starts to wrestle with the way that has been ignored in our policy for so long," said Providence Sr. Emily TeKolste, grassroots mobilization coordinator for Network, a Catholic social justice lobby that was among the groups at the prayer vigil.

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The prayer vigil included faith leaders and organizations from an array of backgrounds who called for a "holy, just and moral recovery," according to a press release from Faith in Public Life, the Center for American Progress and Network, the organizers of the event.

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https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/faith-leaders-hold-prayer-vigil-support-35-trillion-reconciliation-bill

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