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In a “Holy Week Statement of Lament and Solidarity” for Maundy Thursday, the Pan African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network (PAWEEN) demanded an end to gun violence in America.
The statement, developed for use in prayer on Maundy Thursday as well as other Holy Week liturgy, decries the response to gun violence against children in the USA as “scarce and insufficient.”
It also dedicates 29 March as a special way to observe “Thursdays in Black,” a global movement resisting attitudes and practices that permit violence.
“We, the Women of PAWEEN, stand with our young people and petition Congress, as we all demand an end to gun violence in America by passing Common Sense Gun Laws, title guns like cars, raise the age restriction to purchase guns, ban assault weapons and enforce stricter background check policies,” the statement reads. “We, the Women of PAWEEN, pray for the families of the slain, the survivors who cannot un-see such tragedy and atrocities and the friends that are processing the loss.”
Holy Week statement of lament and solidarity (29 March 2018)
More information on the Pan African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network
