Essay: Anti-immigrant pastors may be drawing attention – but faith leaders, including some evangelicals, are central to the movement to protect migrant rights
In an article first published on The Conversation, BRAD CHRISTERSON, ALEXIA SALVATIERRA and ROBERT CHAO ROMERO – co-authors of ‘God’s Resistance: Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants’, look at the role faith leaders are playing in protecting migrant rights in the US…
Essay: The hidden interfaith networks key to the migrant justice movement
CHARLOTTE LONG, who led a research project to map out migrant shelters in the US and taught on the theology of global service in the Episcopal Church, looks – in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the tireless work of immigration networks in the US…
ICE apprehension on church grounds violated federal policy, say US faith leaders
Updated 24th September, 2020Baltimore, USRNS Prominent US faith leaders are condemning the apprehension of an undocumented immigrant on church grounds by federal officials, arguing the action violates a government policy that discourages agents from raiding “sensitive locations” such as churches, hospitals and schools. “As a bishop and adjudicatory leader I find this breach of established […]
ESSAY: MORE CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS TAKE SHELTER IN CHURCHES, RECALLING 1980S SANCTUARY MOVEMENT
In an article first published on The Conversation, MARIO GARCIA, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, looks at the history of the church-based sanctuary movement in the US…
Pastor surveilled after ministering to migrants sues US Government
RNS A prominent Manhattan pastor has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that US officials violated her religious freedom when she was put on a watchlist over her ministry to migrants at the border. Rev Kaji Douša, senior pastor of Park Avenue Christian Church and longtime advocate for immigrants’ rights, was the only clergy member listed […]
US sanctuary churches say fines against immigrants meant to sow fear
RNS About a dozen people taking refuge in sanctuary churches across the US received a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this week, informing them they owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil penalties for disobeying orders to leave the country. Among those was Rosa del Carmen Ortez Cruz, a 38-year-old mother of […]
US immigration officials accused of targeting faith leader and religious groups
RNS For Rev Kaji Douša, senior pastor of Park Avenue Christian Church in New York, crossing the US-Mexico border is a fairly uneventful activity. A former San Diego resident, she had passed through the US Customs and Border Protection checkpoints many times in the past without incident. But in early January, as she crossed going […]
IMMIGRATION: IN THE US, SANCTUARY FOR THE UNDOCUMENTED COMES WITH LEGAL CONSEQUENCES
KIMBERLY WINSTON, of Religion News Service, reports on some of the questions facing those faith communities involved with the “sanctuary movement”, aimed at sheltering undocumented migrants in the US…