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With New Executive Order, This Immigrant Is Leaving Church Sanctuary After 3.5 Years

Yonat Shimron
January 25, 2021
Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice
Jose Chicas, a native of El Salvador who has been living in church sanctuary for more than three years, [moved] out Friday (Jan. 22) after President Joe Biden signed an executive order temporarily halting the deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Christians Demand Binsar’s Release from ICE

Julio Hernández
September 30, 2020
Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice
Humiliated before the judge, he was read his rights, without any legal counsel and ordered to return to his home country. In the process of returning he caught COVID and was returned to those that would take his life because of his Christian faith.

Unholy Week

Angela Denker
April 17, 2019
Church Life, Theology
I believe instead that God wept too this Holy Monday, another relic in flames, another sanctuary destroyed, another holy place desecrated.

ICE’s War on Christmas

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
November 30, 2018
Church Life, Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice, Theology
In 2018, the “War on Christmas” is an assault led by President Trump and justified by his evangelical enablers.

After Arrest of Protected Immigrant, Sanctuary Church Members Cry out for Justice

Yonat Shimron
November 27, 2018
Church Life, Immigration & Refugees, Politics
"The fabric of our community has been violated."

Trump’s Nativism Harks Back to the Antebellum Slavery Struggle

Mark Silk
November 5, 2018
Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Race
Like slavery, immigration engages some of America’s deepest religious, racial, and geographic sensibilities.

A Counter-Cultural Church Grows in Brooklyn

Tony Campolo
September 16, 2018
Church Life, General, LGBTQ+, Theology
He sings what Jesus might say to such contemporary Pharisees — “Get Outta My Way!”

‘The Word Became Flesh’: Sanctuary for Immigrants & Refugees

Jamie Rye
August 10, 2018
Church Life, Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Theology
We are striving to create a dwelling place. A place where our immigrant brothers and sisters can experience the radical welcome and peaceful presence of Jesus.

Heeding the Sacred Call to Give Sanctuary to the Vulnerable

Traci Blackmon and Jonah Dov Pesner
April 23, 2018
Church Life, Immigration & Refugees, Theology
As we transition from Easter and Passover, may we reflect together on human dignity and compassion and resist the criminalization of immigrants.

Baby Jesus Was a Dreamer in Egypt

Thomas Reese
January 17, 2018
Church Life, Global, Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice, Theology
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Where are the biblical fundamentalists who say that American law should be based on the Bible? They should be leading the charge in support of Dreamers, refugees, and other immigrants.
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