“Faith and democracy are intertwined,” said Rev. Alvin Herring, Executive Director of Faith in Action. Democracy is the recognition of the inherent dignity of every person that is endowed to them by the divine. Every day since hurricanes Irma and María hit Puerto Rico, our dear brothers and sisters have endured countless indignities. They have endured the longest blackout in U.S. history. And they suffered while an unaccountable oversight board chose to make exorbitant debt payments to Wall Street by cutting Grandma’s pension. The breaking point came when they lost faith in their own democratically elected leaders. They amassed their shared creativity and hope in the streets, the sky, the ocean, even on horseback. In this moment, faith and democracy have come together as people are saying yes to a new day in Puerto Rico.”