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Peace & Social Justice   Get Involved Explore Visit the Diocese of Joliet Peace & Social Justice Website Sign up for Action Alerts regarding peace & social justice issues. The Diocese is urging all parishioners to participate in the Million Voices for Darfur campaign.  The goal is to generate one million hand written and electronic postcards from Americans demanding a stronger and more effective U.S. response to the genocide in Darfur , which has claimed 400,000 lives.  In addition, 2.5 million people are displaced and 3.5 million of our sisters and brothers are at risk of starvation.   "The crisis in Darfur must be ended.  We cannot stand idly by while human life is threatened." Bishop John Ricard & the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops   Go online today: www.savedarfur.org  Register for the 2007 Congress to End Extreme Poverty, May 5, 2007 Upcoming Events (click here)   Q & A Hunger Facts Children & Poverty Millennium Development Goals Catholic Social Teaching (SSPP Bulletin Articles) Peace & Social Justice Want Ads Committee Members (see calendar for committee meeting dates.) Suggested Readings God's Politics by Jim Wallis The End of Poverty by Jeffery Sachs Undeserving Poor by Michael Katz The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler A Catholic Relief Journal from Dakar Community Volunteer Hesed House Bridge Communities (Transitional Housing) Suggested Links Bread.org Cyber Schoolbus Catholic Relief Services Sojourners CIMMYT One U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Donate Transitional Housing Envelopes CARE         Contact Us: webmaster