Soulforce-Dignity/USA Delegation To Intensify Their Resistance to Anti-Gay Teaching Soulforce and Dignity/USA Press ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Laura Montgomery RuttEmail: soulforcemedia@aol.comRome Contact: 011-39-3807052353 (Rome, Italy) Soulforce and Dignity/USA volunteers plan to cross the police barriers on Saturday to St. Peters Square, carrying pictures of themselves to represent the gifts gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) individuals […]
Archives for January 2001
Rome Photos: Day 2
Soulforcers arrive at Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican in the rain on day two. Bearing gifts for patients at a Rome AIDS hospital, Soulforcers form a human "Christmas Tree" in front of the creche and Christmas Tree at the Vatican. Singing "We Shall Overcome" as we wait for our gifts to be blessed by […]
Rome, Italy: Day Two – January 4, 2001
The rain, which kindly subsided on Day One early in the morning, pounded steadily all day on the Soulforce – Dignity/USA delegation on our second day in Rome. The morning was unscheduled, some sleeping due to jet lag, others taking advantage of the opportunity to stroll the streets of Rome, visiting sites or doing shopping. […]
Rome Photos: Day 1
Soulforce Alert, January 3, 2001
Friends, On Saturday, January 6, our Soulforce-Dignity/USA delegation marches on the Vatican. The Italian police have warned us that no protest has ever been allowed in St. Peter’s Square. In spite of their warnings, tomorrow we carry flowers to place on beneath the Pope’s window on that tragic spot where Alfredo Ormando, a young gay […]
Rome, Italy: Day One – January 3, 2001
As rain fell on the streets of Rome, the Soulforce – Dignity/USA delegation of 21 activists ventured out for a morning ritual at the Circus Maximus, where Christian martyrs met death at the hands of the Romans 1000s of years ago. As the sun broke through the clouds, a rainbow appeared, a sign of love […]