Category: Social Justice

Please join us this Sunday (23 February 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Welcoming the Stranger: Immigration Advocacy as a Spiritual Practice” by Frances Kelley.

Frances Kelley (Project Coordinator for Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention – LA AID) is in the pulpit this Sunday to share with us the possibilities for immigration advocacy amid the changing landscape in the days to come.

Joining her as worship associates will be LA AID Volunteer Coordinator and All Souls board member Susan Yellott and UUJME leader and frequent LAAID volunteer Taha Hayat.

We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.  The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link.  The link is currently showing COVID, RSV, and flu rates with a small decrease as of 15 February 2025.

The CDC no longer provides updated risk information for Caddo, Bossier, and De Soto Parishes.  We are relying on the Louisiana Department of Health for COVID risk assessments at this time.

Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.

Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.

However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.

If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.

We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.

And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our February 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Highland Center Ministries.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

Please join us this Sunday (16 February 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Local History is Black History is History” by Pamela Carlisle.

We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.  The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link.  The link is currently showing COVID rates with a small increase, RSV rates high but decreasing, and flu rates high but decreasing on 8 February 2025.

The CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.

Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.

Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.

However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.

If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.

We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.

And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our February 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Highland Center Ministries.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

Please join us this Sunday (12 January 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Aafia Siddiqui:  Unveiling a Story of Oppression” featuring guest speaker Maria Kari (defense attorney for Aafia Siddiqui).

We welcome via Zoom attorney Maria Kari who represents Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (a Pakistani neuroscientist currently 16 years into an 86 year sentence on charges of attempting to kill American military personnel in Afghanistan).

Her family and supporters maintain that the charges are false and that Dr. Siddiqui has been abused by prison staff at Federal Medical Center Carswell in Ft. Worth where she is currently held.

We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.  The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link.  The link is currently showing all three respiratory viruses increasing on 4 January 2025.

The CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.

Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.

Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.

However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.

If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.

We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.

And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our January 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.