Faith leaders wrap up cross-country campaign with fifth public action event calling on the administration to have moral courage to take bold action for Creation Care

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | September 29th, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, September 29th,, national faith leaders gathered at Upper Senate Park in Washington, D.C., to mark the closing of a month-long campaign for the Season of Creation. Organized by Creation Justice Ministries and co-sponsored by Interfaith Power & Light DMV and fourteen national faith-based organizations, the event was a powerful public witness calling for urgent moral action in response to worsening climate impacts, rising heat, and rollbacks of environmental protections.

Statement from Shantha Ready Alonso of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition, 

“We pray on the Senate lawn to call people of faith and conscience to join us in protecting our communities  from this Congress and Administration’s ongoing effort to sell out nature to the highest bidders. We continue to endure massive program cuts, and we brace for another reduction in the federal workforce that harms the dignity and livelihoods of so many of our nation’s best stewards of nature. Now is the time to lift our voices for justice in solidarity with the communities that depend on nature the most for physical, cultural, and spiritual sustenance.”

Statement from Avery Davis Lamb, Executive Director of Creation Justice Ministries: 

“From the Sermon on the Mount to his entry into Jerusalem, Jesus’ ministry reveals that public witness lies at the heart of our faith. Today, as we launch the Season of Creation and our Witness for Creation Justice campaign, we stand together in that same spirit of witness—naming the harms inflicted on God’s world, and proclaiming that another way is possible. Joined by the whole community of creation, we declare that caring for our common home is not optional; it is central to who we are as followers of Christ.”

Statement from Adam Greene, Emissary of the Great Tayac of the Piscataway Indian Nation to the Indigenous European People in the Western Hemisphere:

“The Indigenous Peoples of this beautiful Mother Earth, the people who have the longest experience and the deepest, most intimate knowledge about how to care for Mother Earth, are living in poverty. According to the World Bank, 18.2% of the people in this world in extreme poverty are Indigenous. In this country, as of 2018, 25.4% percent of Native peoples were living in poverty. In some places in this country, that number is as high as 50-80%. We are not asking for charity. We are not asking for handouts. We are asking you to invest in the Piscataway Indian Nation so that we may make our thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge, culture and resources available right now to everyone in our territory who so urgently needs it.”​