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U.S. National Tour: Spring 2018

El Paso, TX 
Padre Melo is the recipient for Annunciation House's 2018 Voice of the Voiceless Award. Tickets are $50 per person.
  • SOLIDARITY DINNER
WHEN: May 12th 6 p.m.
WHERE: Santa Lucia Parish Hall
518 Gallagher St El Paso, TX 79915
MORE INFO: Event Flyer
PURCHASE TICKETS
*Please note that the Noon Outdoor Mass has been cancelled*

San Francisco, CA 
  • Conversation with Fr. Melo hosted by USF
​WHEN: May 14th 6:00-9:00 p.m.
WHERE: USF University Ministry
2130 Fulton Street, Toler 122 ( Romero Room)
San Francisco, CA 94117
MORE INFO: Event Flyer

Berkeley, CA
  • Lunch With Father Melo
WHEN: May 15th 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
WHERE: Jesuit School of Theology
1735 Le Roy Ave, Berkeley, CA
​MORE INFO: Event Flyer
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  • Service of Accompaniment and Blessing
WHEN: May 15th 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: St. John's Presbyterian Church
2727 College Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704
MORE INFO: Event Flyer


Boston, MA
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Boston Honduran rights events open to public.

​In Boston, Castro Rosales will speak and hold dialogues in Greater Boston venues, open to the public and to media, at:
  • Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston
637 Cambridge Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02135
Saturday May 12, 2018
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Church of the Covenant Council Reception
Church of the Covenant
67 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116
Sunday May 13, 2018
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Open to all who attend church that day. Weather permitting, reception may be held outdoors; call (617) 266-7480 for final locale.
  • The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
689 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Tuesday May 15, 2018
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • First Parish Church
382 Walnut Street
Brookline, Massachusetts 02445
Tuesday May 15, 2018
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Chicago, IL
There is an opportunity to participate at a Report
Back Reception before the tour commences with
Delegates living in the Chicago area.
  • LUNCH & LEARN
WHEN: April 19th 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: 205 W Monroe St #500, Chicago, IL 60606
MORE INFO: Event Page
  • EVENING SPEAKER SERIES
WHEN: May 14th 6:00-7:30 p.m.
WHERE: 205 W Monroe St #500, Chicago, IL 60606
MORE INFO: Event Page
8th Day Center for Justice Honduras Page
Please contact JoAnne Harbert Bahti at joanne@8thdaycenter.org
or (312) 641-5151, X116 to RSVP to the event(s).

Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Lunch with St. Peter's University Faculty
    (Jesuit University that has hosted Padre Melo in the past) 
WHEN: May 14th 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: 2641 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07306
Newark, New Jersey
  • Public Event at AFSC Offices* 
WHEN: May 14th 5:00 p.m.
*organized by the AFSC TPS committee
Morning Meeting with AFSC staff 
WHEN: May 15th (Time TBD) 
WHERE: AFSC offices in Newark, NJ

Morristown, New Jersey
  • Late Afternoon Public Event**
WHEN: May 15th (Time TBD)
WHERE: Morristown, NJ
**organized by Wind of the Spirit TPS committee

St. Louis, MO
Hope in the Midst of Crisis: A Conversation with Honduran Sister Rosa Maria Trochez, SSND
  • Dinner Diálogos Event host ed by IFCLA
WHEN: Friday, May 11th 6:00 - 8:00 pm 
WHERE: 
Parish Center of St. John the Baptist Church
4200 Delor Street, St. Louis, MO 63116
(Entrance is located behind the church with a red
overhang reading "Parish Center")
MORE INFO: Event Flyer
Cost: $15; dinner is provided
Pay by cash or check at the door
Please RSVP by emailing susan@ifcla.net by
May 9th
  • Holy Trinity Event hosted by Holy Trinity Parish
WHEN: May 12th 9:30am to 11:30am
WHERE: Holy Trinity Gymnasium
3400 St. Gregory Lane, St. Anne, MO 63074
MORE INFO: Event Flyer
  • Sunday Reflection hosted by the SSND Community
WHEN: May 13th 2:00 to 4:00pm
WHERE: School Sisters of Notre Dame
Sancta Maria in Ripa Auditorium
320 E Ripa Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63125
MORE INFO: Event Flyer

Spokane, WA 
  • Public Presentation
WHEN: May 13th 2:00 pm
WHERE: Community Building 
35 W Main Ave, Spokane, WA 99201
Semi-private gathering, presentation and potluck with bi-lingual Latin American activists, indigenous, lawyers, and faith leaders.

Cheney, WA
  • Public presentation hosted by MEChA de EWU
WHEN: May 14th 4:00 pm
WHERE: Eastern Washington University
Patterson Hall, Rm 126

Spokane, WA ​
  • Public Presentation hosted by Veterans for Peace
WHEN: May 15th 6:30 pm 
WHERE: Community Building 
35 W Main Ave, Spokane, WA 99201

Baltimore, MD
Hope in the Midst of Crisis:  A Conversation with Honduran Sister Rosa Maria Trochez, SSND
  • A Call for Solidarity in Honduras’  “Kairos Moment”
WHEN: May 14, 2018 7:00 pm
WHERE: SSND Villa Assumpta Chapel 6401 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21212
MORE INFO: Event Flyer

Silver Spring, MD
  • Brown Bag Lunch and Conversation
When: Wednesday, May 16, 2017, 12:30-2:00
Where: LCWR’s Offices, 8808 Cameron Street, Silver Spring Maryland
MORE INFO:
Please RSVP by Monday, May 14: 
John Baroi jbaroi@lcwr.org, 301-588-4955 (Space is limited to the first 20 respondents)


​Washington D.C. 
Following these visits, everyone who is able will convene in Washington DC for a Day of Prayer for Peace in
Honduras
, visits to Congress and religious leaders, and a Teach-in on May 17th and 18th.  We want a big showing of support, so please come and invite your family and friends to be with us in DC. SEE FLYER OF ALL EVENTS
  • News Event
WHEN: May 17th 11 a.m.
WHAT: Rep. Hank Johnson will welcome delegation to Capitol Hill, joined by faith leaders and family members of the slain Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres.  (details pending)
  • Evening Reception hosted by CARECEN
WHEN: May 17th 5-7 p.m.
WHERE: 1460 Columbia Road, NW Suite C-1, Washington, DC.
MORE INFO: hosted reception with  Sister Rosa, Karla, Dunia, Adelso and Ely; Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
  • Padre Melo speaking event
Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
WHEN: May 18th 10-11 a.m.
WHERE: TBD
  • Hope in the Midst of Honduras’ Crisis
Brown bag lunch
WHEN: May 18th 12:30-1:45 p.m.
WHERE: 
Methodist Office Building,
100 Maryland Ave NE Washington, DC 20002
MORE INFO: Panelists: S. Rosa, Karla, Dunia, Adelso and Ely.  

Silver Spring, MD
  • Ángel Adelso speaking event
WHEN: May 18th 7:30 pm 
WHERE: St. Camillus Church,
 1600 St. Camillus Dr., Silver Spring, MD, Fr. Grace Room


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Human Rights Defenders' Bios

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Ismael “Melo” Moreno is an Afro-descendant Jesuit priest in northern Honduras.  He is known as Father Melo, reflecting his warm and charismatic personality.  For the last 20 years he has been the leader of two social action projects of the Society of Jesus in Honduras: Radio Progreso, and ERIC, who provide accurate real-time reporting and human rights observers/mediators. Radio Progreso is broadcast from El Progreso, with transmission in San Pedro Sula and also Tegucigalpa, somewhat similar to the Pacifica radio stations in the U.S.
In 2015 Father Melo received the Rafto Prize, created in honor of a Norwegian human rights activist and in 2016 he was asked by students at the National University of Honduras (UNAH) to negotiate on their behalf for grievances against the administration. Father Melo worked closely with Berta Caceres, the environmental heroine who was assassinated in 2016. Father Melo and his colleagues have received numerous death threats and he is number two on a recently published assassination list of 13 social justice leaders.

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Karla Rivas is a journalist with a degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Honduras. She coordinated the news department of Radio Progreso from 2002 to 2012.  She has facilitated training processes in radio and analysis of context.  In 2011 she received the Peter Mackler Award for Radio Progreso from the Global Media Forum and Reporters without Borders for ethical and courageous journalism.  As part of the area of Investigation and Human Rights of the Reflection, Investigation and Communication Team (ERIC) - Radio Progreso, she coordinates the Jesuit Network, Migrant in Honduras.

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Dunia Aracely Pérez, feminist, human rights defender and attorney with the Reflection, Investigation and Communication Team (ERIC) and Radio Progreso, both Jesuit missions in Honduras.  In the area of Investigation and Human Rights, she accompanies and defends victims within the Inter American Human Rights System.

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Sister Rosa Maria Trochez is a woman religious member of the Congregation of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who works as a defender of the human rights of women. In 1975, serving in the Catholic parish of Juticalpa, Rosa Maria witnessed one of the worst massacres in the history of Honduras. The Honduran military, trained by US armed forces, came to her parish and kidnapped, tortured and killed Fathers Ivan Betancourt and Michael Jerome Zypher, the latter from Wisconsin. Rosa Maria was taken to prison. While jailed, she learned that 14 peasants, many of them religious leaders in their communities, had been killed as part of an effort to destroy the rural movement that fought for Agrarian Reform. Rosa Maria decided to join the School Sisters of Notre Dame and commit her life to justice. She studied Liberation Theology with Father Gustavo Gutiérrez.
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During the 1980’s, Rosa Maria accompanied thousands of refugees as a pastoral agent in Mesa Grande, Honduras. Following this intense period, Rosa Maria studied alternative medicine in Guatemala for four years. As a School Sister of Notre Dame in El Progreso, Yoro, Sr. Rosa Maria works to uphold the rights of women and impoverished communities, in collaboration with other religious congregations and social movements.

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Ely Castro Rosales began his human rights activism while still a teenager in the 1980s, when he joined the Movement of High School Students in defending human rights, especially the rights of students. He continued his activism through his university years and into his professional life, when he worked as Regional Director with the company Grupo Santillana for 16 years.  

During the bloody coup of 2009, Castro Rosales was involved with the National Front for Popular Resistance. In the struggles for constitutional integrity leading up to the 2017 elections, he became the coordinator for the Convergence Against Continuation.


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Ángel Adelso Reyes is the parish coordinator, president of the health committee of San Nicolás, Santa Bárbara, member of serveral patronatos, secretary and president of the committee for ecclesiastical works of the catholic church San Nicolás; Coordinador of the Multi-Sector Network of vulnerable groups in San Nicolás, Santa Bárbara; part of a group of Friends of Radio Progreso - ECOS -that supports the promotion of the radio in the zone of the valleys through the club of Friends that makes an annual contribution in support of the radio.

Sponsored by SHARE in collaboration with: Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, American Friends Service Committee, Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Church World Service, Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach, Eighth Day Church, Franciscan Action Network, Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology  Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, plus a host of local faith group collaborators in each of the cities.
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