February 2025 African American History Month
1	National Freedom Day
	Birthday of Leymah Roberta Gbowee (1972): a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
	Four African American college students stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, NC (1960)
	Birthday of Langston Hughes (1901-1967): an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
1-7	World Interfaith Harmony Week
2	Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
	World Wetlands Day
	Anniversary of the death of Alfred Delp. SJ (1907-1945): A German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. A member of the inner Kreisau Circle resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism.
3	Feast of St. Blaise (died 316 AD: A saint in the Catholic, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches and is the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from ENT illnesses. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on 3 February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February.
	Birthday of Takashi Nagai (1908-1951): A Japanese Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
	Birthday of Simone Weil (1909-1943): A French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Since 1995, more than 5,000 scholarly works have been published about her, including close analyses and readings of her work.
4	Birthday of Rosa Parks (1913-2005): An American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"
	Birthday of Deitrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945): A German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential; his 1937 book The Cost of Discipleship is described as a modern classic. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned. Bonhoeffer was accused of being associated with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler and was tried along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office). He was hanged on 9 April 1945 during the collapse of the Nazi regime.
5	Feast of St. Agatha (231-251 AD): Patron of Sicily, bellfounders, breast cancer, against fire, Palermo, rape victims, and wet nurses
	Anniversary of the death of Pedro Arrupe, SJ (1907-1991): A Spanish Catholic priest who served as the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus from 1965 to 1983. He has been called a second founder of the Society, which he led in the implementation of the Second Vatican Council, especially with regard to faith that does justice and preferential option for the poor.[4][3]
6	Feast of St. Paul Miki (1562-1592) and Companions: A Japanese Catholic evangelist and Jesuit, known for his martyrdom during a 16th-century anti-Catholic uprising.
	International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Against Human Trafficking
8	Feast of St. Josephine Bakhita, FDCC (1869-1947): A Canossian religious sister who lived in Italy for 45 years, after having been a slave in Sudan. In 2000, she was declared a saint, the first black woman to receive the honor in the modern era.
10	Feast of St. Scholastica (480-543): An Italian Christian hermit and the sister of Benedict of Nursia. She is traditionally regarded as the foundress of the Benedictine nuns.
11	International Day of Women and Girls in Science
	World Day of the Sick
13	Anniversary of the assassination of Blessed Brother James (Santiago) Miller, FSC (1944—1982): An American Catholic member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He was murdered in Guatamala.
14	Valentine’s Day
	Feast of Sts, Cyril and Methodius
	Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL (2018)
17	Presidents’ Day
	Anniversary 0f the death of Janani Luwum (1992-1977): Archbishop of the Church of Uganda from 1974 to 1977 and one of the most influential leaders of the modern church in Africa. He was arrested in February 1977 and died shortly after.
19	Anniversary of forced removal of Japanese American families from their homes on the West Coast to inland Internment camps
20	World Day of Social Justice
21	Birthday of Cardinal John Henry Newman, OC (1801-1890): An English Catholic theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet. He was previously an Anglican priest and after his conversion became a cardinal. He was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century and was known nationally by the mid-1830s.[11] He was canonized as a Catholic saint in 2019. He was a member of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.
22	Feast of the Chair of St. Peter
	Anniversary of the execution of Sophie (b.1921) and Hans (b.1922) Scholl (d. 1943): Siblings who were part of the White Rose, a group of students who opposed Nazi policies during World War II. They were arrested and executed by the Gestapo in 1943.
23	Anniversary of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, GA (2020): A 25-year-old black man, was murdered during a racially motivated hate crime[b]while jogging in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near Brunswickin Glynn County, Georgia.
24	Anniversary of the escalation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
26	Anniversary of the killing of Trayvon Martin (1995-2012): A 17-year-old African-American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic American. Martin had accompanied his father to visit his father's fiancée at her townhouse On the evening of February 26, Martin was walking back to the fiancée's house from a nearby convenience store. Zimmerman, a member of the community watch, saw Martin and reported him to the Sanford Police as suspicious. Several minutes later, an altercation happened and Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in the chest.
28	Birthday of Rev. Dr. Kelly Douglas (1957): An African-AmericanEpiscopal priest, womanist theologian, and interim president of Episcopal Divinity School. She was previously the inaugural Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary. She became interim president when EDS departed from Union in 2023.[3][4][5] She is also the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral.
28-3/30	Ramadan