Young Unitarian Universalists helped organize student walkouts in several cities on March 15 to demand action on climate change.

Unitarian Universalist youth were among the hundreds of thousands of students around the world who skipped school on Friday, March 15, to demand immediate political action in … read more.

The attack on mosques in New Zealand resembles other recent atrocities driven by xenophobia, racism, and religious persecution.

By UUSC Staff on March 15, 2019

This morning, we woke to the heartbreaking truth that 49 people have been killed today, and many others injured, in an attack … read more.

What risks would you take to live out your values and potentially save lives?

By Hannah Hafter and Katie Ingegneri on January 28, 2019

In the United States in 2019, humanitarian aid has become a crime in the eyes of hardline judges enforcing inhumane immigration policies. The … read more.

By Josh Leach on February 1, 2019

The practice of holding immigrant kids in detention is skyrocketing in the United States, with the number of children in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody growing from less than 3,000 to nearly 15,000 in the first two years … read more.

As the 116th Congress takes their seats today, hundreds of thousands of federal employees continue working without pay as the government enters day 13 of a shutdown. This shutdown, which affects 25% of the U.S. government, stems from President Trump’s demand for an additional $5 … read more.

A special interfaith service and gratitude dinner took place on November 21 at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (BUF) in Bellingham, Washington, to raise money for sixteen immigrant families whose primary breadwinners were arrested during an ICE raid on August 29 at a granite company … read more.

The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) opposes the Trump administration’s new rules that would deny contraceptive insurance coverage for millions of people who aren’t cisgender men. Disguised as protecting “religious liberty,” the new rules are just another effort by the Trump administration – notoriously hostile to … read more.

October 30, 2018

In an interview released this morning, President Trump made his latest bid to sow fear and distract from the ongoing national conversation about the role his racist and xenophobic rhetoric has played in encouraging acts of hate and violence. His latest idea? To … read more.

This past week, media have been full of news about caravans of Central American asylum seekers and migrants traveling from Honduras to the United States, provoking irate and ill-informed responses from several U.S. politicians, including Donald Trump. As in the past, the President’s responses have … read more.

Since 2016, the United States has withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council, the Global Compact on Migration, and the Paris Agreement, and has slashed funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency. These actions have entrenched the Trump administration’s amoral and isolationist “America First” … read more.