The event, “Looking Forward, Looking Back: 25 Years of ICUJP,” will take place Sunday, September 27, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at All Saints Episcopal Church (Photo – ICUJP)
Interfaith Communities United for Peace will commemorate 25 years of seeking an alternative to the fearmongering and vengefulness sweeping much of the nation with its 2026 Rev. George F. Regas Courageous Peacemaker Awards.
By News Desk
The event, themed “Looking Forward, Looking Back: 25 Years of ICUJP,” will take place Sunday, September 27, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at All Saints Episcopal Church. Mimi Kennedy will host the ceremony.
This year’s honorees are Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories; Stephen Rohde, constitutional lawyer, lecturer, writer and political activist; the late Father Chris Ponnet, director of the St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care at LAC+USC Medical Center; Bishop John Taylor, former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles; Rick Steves, travel writer, activist and host of “Rick Steves’ Europe” on PBS; and Pasadena for Palestine, a local activist organization.
The event will also feature “Life Under Occupation: Scenes from the West Bank,” a photo exhibit by Brian Biery, a photographer and Pasadena resident.
Board members and staff of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace will be available for quotes and interviews.
ICUJP was formed through the efforts of the late Rev. George F. Regas, a peace advocate and former rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. In the days after 9/11, Regas brought together Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish and Quaker faith leaders and other activists in Los Angeles to oppose forces pressing for war and its devastating consequences.
In Regas’s honor, ICUJP presents the annual Courageous Peacemaker Awards to recognize the work of peace advocates.
Previous recipients include the Rev. Desmond Tutu, Black Lives Matter–Los Angeles, the Rev. James Lawson, Housing Works, NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, the Poor People’s Campaign, Dolores Huerta and the National Religious
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