The faith-based community in the U.S. is one of our strongest customer bases and allies in promoting Fair Trade.

Most coffee on the conventional market is traded through brokers and exporters and processors, and the farmer gets a fraction of the price that the coffee companies actually pay for the coffee on the market.

Lutherans drink coffee after church. ... That's a pretty important time. The idea was to use coffee as a vehicle to connect them with their global neighbors and think about issues of social and economic justice.

As a faith community, we want to respond, whether that is individually or as an organization.

I do not view this as a faith community issue, ... This is a human decency issue.

The county has never dealt with that community in good faith.