Press Releases

JANUARY 14, 2026 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center and Virginia Interfaith Power & Light Host their 2026 Advocacy Day: Day For All People 2026

DECEMBER 22, 2025 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center Introduces Its 2026 Legislative Agenda: “Faith in Virginia Communities: Building A Future For Everyone”

DECEMBER 3, 2025 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center Joins Buddhist Groups to Create a New Dharma Alliance Pilot Program

AUGUST 28, 2025 | Press Releases

Coalition for Immigrant Rights to Host Virtual Press Conference to Outline Opposition to Governor Youngkin’s Anti-Immigrant Amendments

AUGUST 28, 2025 | Press Releases

112 Faith leaders call on US Senate to reject budget bill and save Medicaid

AUGUST 28, 2025 | Press Releases

Interfaith Justice Revival Road Trip Begins Sunday in Lynchburg!

AUGUST 28, 2025 | Press Releases

Virginia Faith Organizations Oppose Use of National Guard for Mass Deportation of Immigrants

AUGUST 11, 2025 | Press Releases

Interfaith Justice Revival Road Trip with Virginia Interfaith Center, VA NAACP and VPLC

AUGUST 7, 2025 | Press Releases

Virginia Faith Organizations Oppose Use of National Guard for Mass Deportation of Immigrants, Aug. 7, 2025

MAY 30, 2025 | Press Releases

Bill to Strengthen Prison Education Programs in Virginia Heads to Governor’s Desk

MAY 30, 2025 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Welcomes Rev. Dr. LaKeisha Cook as New Executive Director

MAY 30, 2025 | Press Releases

Immigration Advocates and Faith Leaders Called on General Assembly to Reject Governor Youngkin’s Proposed Anti-Immigrant Legislative Amendments

MAY 30, 2025 | Press Releases

National Second Chance Business Coalition to Hold Forum in Arlington on Strengthening Career Opportunities for Previously Incarcerated Individuals

MAY 30, 2025 | Press Releases

Hundreds of faith leaders sign letter urging Governor Youngkin to support congregations building affordable housing

APRIL 23, 2025 | Press Releases

The Choice Is Clear: Advocates Call on Gov. Youngkin to Sign Bills to Protect Virginia’s Workers

JANUARY 27, 2025 | Press Releases

Young People in Virginia Champion Justice at 2025 Student Day of Action: Jan. 30 & 31, 2025 at the General Assembly in Richmond

JANUARY 22, 2025 | Press Releases

High-Level Virginia faith leaders call on elected officials and community leaders to refuse to participate in deportation efforts that violate human rights

JANUARY 22, 2025 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center Releases Ground-Breaking Book “Virginia Congregations Building Affordable Housing: A Match Made in Heaven”

JANUARY 22, 2025 | Press Releases

More than 40 Organizations PUSH for Maternal Health Legislation in Virginia

OCTOBER 4, 2024 | Press Releases

VICPP is hosting a press conference of faith leaders calling for peace during the election

AUGUST 15, 2024 | Press Releases

The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy Commends Governor Youngkin

JULY 3, 2024 | Press Releases

Advocates Seek Action After DMAS “Prenatal Care Secret Shopper Survey” Reveals MCOs Not Providing Care They Are Paid to Provide

JULY 1, 2024 | Press Releases

Virginia Consensus for Higher Education in Prison Announces Press Conference at the Virginia Department of Corrections

MARCH 29, 2024 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith disappointed with Gov. Youngkin’s decision to veto minimum wage, March 29, 2024

MARCH 27, 2024 | Press Releases

Four hundred religious leaders ask the Governor to Increase the Minimum Wage, March 15, 2024

FEBRUARY 26, 2023 | Press Releases

Virginia passes first step in reforming solitary confinement, Feb. 26, 2023

FEBRUARY 17, 2023 | Press Releases

House Kills Bill That Would Provide Necessary Relief to Essential Workers

JANUARY 17, 2023 | Press Releases

“Day for all People” brings more than 400 Virginians together to advocate justice

OCTOBER 18, 2022 | Press Releases

Report Released This Morning: Lawrenceville Correctional Center, For-Profit Prison Run Amok

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 | Press Releases

New Airport Workers Report urges MWAA to set standards, end cruel injustices faced by Dulles & Reagan workers

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 | Press Releases

Joint Press Release with TCI: ‘State of Working Virginia’ Reveals How Far Virginia Has Come – and How Much Further It Has Yet to Go – for Working People

AUGUST 31, 2022 | Press Releases

Thurs 9/1 at 11 AM: (Virtual) Press Conference and Release of The State of Working Virginia Report

AUGUST 10, 2022 | Press Releases

8 confirmed overdoses occurred in 24 hours at Lawrenceville Correctional Center – possibly 11 total.

MARCH 1, 2022 | Press Releases

150 Faith Leaders Join Call for Increased Affordable Housing Funding in Virginia’s Budget

JANUARY 27, 2022 | Press Releases

TOMORROW at 8:30 am: Rally to #PUSHbiasout at the Capitol

JANUARY 12, 2022 | Press Releases

TOMORROW 10 AM: Religious Leaders on Solitary Confinement (Virtual) Press Conference

JANUARY 10, 2022 | Press Releases

Faith Leaders Condemn Sen. Amanda Chase’s Inciting Islamophobic Remarks

DECEMBER 10, 2021 | Press Releases

King Salim Khalfani Named VICPP Criminal Justice Reform Organizer

OCTOBER 30, 2021 | Press Releases

Seminarians Visit Mock Cells to Educate about Solitary Confinement

AUGUST 19, 2021 | Press Releases

Harrisonburg City Public Schools become the 50th Living Wage Certified Employer in the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Living Wage Certification Program

AUGUST 18, 2021 | Press Releases

VA School Reopenings Draw Students, COVID-19 Outbreaks, and Dire Need for Paid Sick Days

JUNE 1, 2021 | Press Releases

Virginia History Made Today in Signing Ceremony with Governor

APRIL 30, 2021 | Press Releases

Workers Need Information about May 1 Minimum Wage Increase

APRIL 6, 2021 | Press Releases

Carpenters Union & VICPP to Hold Car Rally Against Wage Theft

MARCH 31, 2021 | Press Releases

Governor Signs Legislations to Provide Paid Sick Days for Home Care Workers

MARCH 25, 2021 | Press Releases

Governor Northam Signs Legislation to Abolish the Death Penalty in Virginia: A “Monumental Victory for Justice”

FEBRUARY 26, 2021 | Press Releases

Virginia Legislature Votes to Expand Paid Sick Days for the First Time to cover 30,000+ Home Health Care Workers – Feb. 26, 2021

FEBRUARY 26, 2021 | Press Releases

Virginia Senate Passes Bill to Provide Paid Sick Days for 30,000 Home Health Care Workers – Feb. 25, 2021

FEBRUARY 22, 2021 | Press Releases

Virginia Makes History as the First Southern State to Abolish the Death Penalty – Feb. 22, 2021

FEBRUARY 12, 2021 | Press Releases

Access to Prenatal Care for Undocumented Women Moving forward at the General Assembly

FEBRUARY 11, 2021 | Press Releases

Days for All People 2021 News Release – week of Jan. 18-22

FEBRUARY 5, 2021 | Press Releases

Virginia Senate Passes Historic Bill to Abolish the Death Penalty – Feb. 3, 2021 News Release

FEBRUARY 5, 2021 | Press Releases

Virginia Faith Leaders to Host Prayer Vigils across the State to Advocate Abolishing the Death Penalty: Vigils will be held at locations where lynchings and executions took place, Jan. 22, 12:00pm

JANUARY 29, 2021 | Press Releases

Feb. 1, 2021: Home Health Care Workers to Host Prayer Vigil Calling on Virginia Legislators to Pass Paid Sick Days Legislation (on Zoom)

JANUARY 13, 2021 | Press Releases

Prosecutors Call for Abolishing the Death Penalty in Virginia – Press Conference, Jan. 14, 2021

JANUARY 7, 2021 | Press Releases

African American Pastors Call for Abolishing the Death Penalty as a Step Toward Addressing the Historical Sins of Slavery and Lynching in Virginia

JANUARY 4, 2021 | Press Releases

Virginians for Paid Sick Days to Launch Virtual Community Tour – Jan. 5, 2021, 10am

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 | Press Releases

Virginians for Paid Sick Days Coalition Statement on Paid Quarantine Substitute Bill – Sept. 10, 2020

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 | Press Releases

New Poll: 83% of Virginians Support Paid Sick Days, Revealing a Bipartisan Call for Action

AUGUST 17, 2020 | Press Releases

New Coalition Launches with Urgent Call to Pass Paid Sick Days Bill During COVID-19 Crisis – August 17, 2020

JULY 15, 2020 | Press Releases

Critical Protections Passed Protecting Workers Against COVID-19

JULY 13, 2020 | Press Releases

Virginians need enforceable health & safety standards, not CDC “suggestions” PRESS CONFERENCE Monday, July 13, 1 pm

JUNE 29, 2020 | Press Releases

CLERGY ACTION RVA Press Conference Condemning Police Brutality

APRIL 23, 2020 | Press Releases

Progress for workers, immigrants, and the planet during 2020 General Assembly

APRIL 13, 2020 | Press Releases

Virginia Becomes First Southern State to Allow Students who are Undocumented to Pay In-State Tuition

MARCH 30, 2020 | Press Releases

Gov. Northam must remove Virginia’s racist, Jim Crow-era laws that exempt farm workers from earning minimum wage

MARCH 17, 2020 | Press Releases

VICPP calls on Gov. Northam to enact emergency regulations to protect workers

MARCH 17, 2020 | Press Releases

Letter to Gov. Northam: we must enact emergency regulations to protect workers

MARCH 14, 2020 | Press Releases

VA Interfaith calls on Gov. Northam to make hospitals “immigration enforcement-free zones”

MARCH 9, 2020 | Press Releases

Paid sick days bill fails – putting the health of ALL Virginians at risk

MARCH 8, 2020 | Press Releases

Legislators must protect public health & pass a paid sick day bill today

FEBRUARY 26, 2020 | Press Releases

Lawmakers and Advocates Demand Senate Fix a Bill that Would Force Working Women to Wait over a Decade before Earning $15 Minimum Wage in Virginia

FEBRUARY 19, 2020 | Press Releases

African American Clergy Host Prayer Vigil Calling on Legislators to Support an Equitable Minimum Wage and Honor Historically Underpaid Workers during Black History Month

FEBRUARY 14, 2020 | Press Releases

Widespread Flu Endangers Workers with No Paid Sick Days

FEBRUARY 6, 2020 | Press Releases

Small Business Owners Say Their Faith Calls Them to Support Raising the Minimum Wage

FEBRUARY 1, 2020 | Press Releases

Faith leaders & activists host prayer vigils at Check City & Fast Auto Loans to protest predatory lending in Richmond

JANUARY 22, 2020 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center will bring 300 faith leaders and advocates to lobby at General Assembly on Wed. Jan. 22, 2020 for “Day for All People”

JANUARY 13, 2020 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy to announce 2020 legislative agenda

JANUARY 6, 2020 | Press Releases

Faith leaders host a “pray-in” to protest predatory lending outside of Title Max in Yorktown

NOVEMBER 23, 2019 | Press Releases

VICPP Response to Gov. Northam’s Executive Order 38

OCTOBER 29, 2019 | Press Releases

Statement from Kim Bobo, Director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, on the U.S. government’s decision to extend Temporary Protected Status to Salvadorans living in the U.S.

AUGUST 29, 2019 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center to Launch “Paid Sick Days for all Virginians” Campaign

AUGUST 26, 2019 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center Announces Honorees for Annual Celebration & Awards Benefit

AUGUST 12, 2019 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center Condemns Trump’s “Inhumane” Policy

AUGUST 11, 2019 | Press Releases

“Witness & Lament” interfaith vigil to lament the treatment of asylum seekers and immigrants and call for healing and justice

JULY 12, 2019 | Press Releases

Interfaith Environmental Justice Worship Service at the Bell Tower – Thurs, July 11 at noon

JULY 11, 2019 | Press Releases

Virginia Medicaid Recipients Share their Stories in New Digital Storybook

JUNE 27, 2019 | Press Releases

Faith Leaders & Organizers Bus Tour to Explore Environmental Racism in Hampton Roads

JUNE 7, 2019 | Press Releases

Celebrate Legislative Champion: Delegate Lashrecse Aird on Thursday, June 6, 5:30-7 p.m. in Petersburg

JUNE 5, 2019 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center commends Governor Northam for addressing racial inequities in Virginia law

JUNE 4, 2019 | Press Releases

People Not Prisons: Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Candidate Forum on Criminal Justice

JUNE 1, 2019 | Press Releases

Richmond leaders to reveal why paying a living wage is good for business

MAY 18, 2019 | Press Releases

Faith leaders and activists will march on May 17 in Richmond to oppose Dominion Energy’s fracked gas pipelines and fight environmental racism

APRIL 30, 2019 | Press Releases

Delegate Cia Price championed a bill that removes racist Jim Crow-era language from the Virginia code

APRIL 23, 2019 | Press Releases

Interfaith “Justice Seder” will Celebrate Passover by Shining a Light on Modern Day Oppression

APRIL 16, 2019 | Press Releases

Virginia Interfaith Center Supports Carpenters’ Rally Against Tax Fraud

APRIL 10, 2019 | Press Releases

Legislative Recap Tues. April 9 in Richmond – Get the inside story on faith-based advocacy work at the GA

MARCH 27, 2019 | Press Releases

A Victory for Workers in Virginia: Governor Signs Bills Requiring Employers to Provide Paystubs

MARCH 16, 2019 | Press Releases

Statement about the Terrorist Attacks at Two Mosques in New Zealand

MARCH 13, 2019 | Press Releases

Governor Signs Bills to Remove Racist Language from Virginia’s Minimum Wage Act

FEBRUARY 8, 2019 | Press Releases

Faith Leaders Oppose SB1024: a Bill that Would Allow Guns in Houses of Worship

JANUARY 16, 2019 | Press Releases

“Day for All People” – More than 200 Faith Leaders and Advocates to Lobby at the General Assembly on Jan. 22, 2019

JANUARY 1, 1970 | Press Releases

House Kills Bill That Would Provide Necessary Relief to Essential Workers

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