End in sight?: Immigrants in sanctuary in US churches hope Biden offers relief
PHILIP MARCELO, SOPHIA TAREEN and JIM SALTER, of Associated Press, reports on the plight of those who have been living in church sanctuary to avoid deportation – and their hope things will change under new US President Joe Biden…
US denomination ELCA declares self a “sanctuary church body”, marches to ICE building in Milwaukee
RNS More than 500 years ago, a monk named Martin Luther nailed 95 theses outlining his grievances with the Roman Catholic Church to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. On Wednesday afternoon, members of the mainline Protestant denomination bearing Luther’s name taped 9.5 theses – expressing their concern for immigrants and refugees – […]
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…
Texas town declares itself a “sanctuary for the unborn”
New York CityThomson Reuters Foundation A town in eastern Texas has declared itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn”, aiming to fend off any demand for abortion services from women in nearby states, officials said. The all-male Waskom City Council unanimously approved this week a resolution declaring that a 1973 US Supreme Court ruling protecting […]
LIFESTORY: WITH HER LIFE ON HOLD, AN IMMIGRANT WOMAN IN THE US MARKS TWO YEARS IN SANCTUARY
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, meets Juana Luz Tobar Ortega…
ESSAY: WHAT CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS TELL US ABOUT AMERICA’S EARLIEST BLACK HISTORY
In an article first published on The Conversation, JANE LANDERS, professor of history at Vanderbilt University in the US, says Catholic records show black history in the US started much earlier than previously thought…
Dutch church has been running services continuously for a month to stop deportations
A Dutch church has been running a 24-hour-a-day church service for the past month in an effort to stop an Armenian family from being deported. Australia’s ABC reports Bethel Church in The Hague has been running the service since 26th October in a bid to prevention the deportation of the family of five based on a […]
Australian churches offer ‘sanctuary’ to asylum seekers facing government crackdown
Australian Christian churches have again said they will offer sanctuary to 100 asylum seekers who face having any Federal Government assistance they are receiving cut when medical treatment is completed. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton announced earlier this week that the asylum seekers – who were originally brought to Australia from Manus Island and Nauru for […]