by sivicouncil | Mar 7, 2017 | statements
SiVIC again joins with the Know Your Neighbor campaign and interfaith groups around the Bay Area and across the US to reaffirm our commitment to diversity and compassion in times when they seem to be threatened. San Jose – The Know Your Neighbor: Multifaith Encounters...
by sivicouncil | Feb 19, 2017 | News, statements
SiVIC joins other interfaith councils around the Bay Area in call for faithful work Over a dozen leaders of interfaith councils, including SiVIC, issued a statement concerning what faith groups can uniquely offer to our shared community life in the Bay Area and...
by sivicouncil | Jan 27, 2017 | statements
SiVIC has joined the ING Know Your Neighbors program and a coalition of faith-based and humanist groups in responding to presidential orders restricting immigration from Middle Eastern and African countries: Faith-based and humanist groups call on government to...
by sivicouncil | Jan 23, 2017 | statements
January 16th is celebrated as Religious Freedom Day, That day marks the anniversary of the 1786 passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. After the anti-Muslim tenor of the recent presidential campaign, a coalition of national religious, secularist, civil...
by sivicouncil | Jan 20, 2017 | statements
The Silicon Valley Interreligious Council joins with other interfaith councils around the Bay Area in condemning the bomb threats that were directed at two Bay Area Jewish schools- one in Marin County and the other in San Mateo- that were part of a nation-wide series...
by sivicouncil | Dec 1, 2016 | statements
SF Bay Area Faith Leaders Denounce Incidents of Hate Targeting Religion December 1, 2016 News of a hateful letter received by the Evergreen Islamic Center in San Jose and at least five other mosques is the most recent of an increasing number of incidents targeting...
