Pastor Juan is deported to Peru
VICPP learned that on Thursday Pastor Juan Gutierrez Palomino was deported to Peru by ICE. His wife and children in Dumfries, all U.S. citizens, are left without their father, husband and breadwinner. People of...
Sign our petition to the General Assembly to make Charlottesville matter
Dear VICPP supporter, Saturday was a sad day for the state and the nation. Hatred and violence appeared to rule the day. White supremacists marched around the city with helmets, shields, and armed to...
Statements from people of faith on Charlottesville
World Council of Churches: On Saturday in Charlottesville, one woman died and 19 others were injured when a man who, after rallying with white supremacist groups, rammed his car into a crowd. Earlier in the...
We Won the Fight for Health Care, and We Can Win Again
Commentary by Jim Wallis The defeat in the Senate of the “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act was a major victory — one brought about through a comprehensive strategy enacted by a broad...
Why churches still matter for immigration reform
“We can’t depend on political parties to provide moral clarity.” Amy Frykholm interviews Ali Noorani Reprinted from The Christian Century July 31, 2017 Ali Noorani is the director of the National Immigration Forum, an...
10 sneaky ways employers steal from your paycheck
Wage theft is a big-time crime in which billions of dollars are taken out of working people’s pockets every year. Rather than armed thugs or slick pickpockets committing the crime, it’s employers who fail...
Health care rewrite should be a ‘win-win’
This letter to the editor appeared in the Suffolk News-Herald on July 6: To the editor: The Senate bill to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates uncertainty. Both...
Why is healthcare so expensive in the first place?
By KATHRYN WATSON CBS NEWS July 5, 2017 As Republicans on Capitol Hill struggle to find common ground on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, and as Democrats...
We need a bipartisan solution to healthcare
By U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D.-Va.) Worries about healthcare keep countless families up at night. Good health care policy can give people peace of mind that an unexpected illness won’t irreparably harm a loved...
Unpacking The Senate’s Take On ACA Repeal And Replace
By Tim Jost and Sara Rosenbaum From HealthAffairs.org On June 22, 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the Senate GOP’s version of Affordable Care Act repeal, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017....
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