The Trump administration’s vast cuts to refugee services have led some religious congregations to fill in gaps.
The Trump administration’s vast cuts to refugee services have led some religious congregations to fill in gaps.
Many colony Mennonites in Latin America are applying for Canadian citizenship derived from their ancestors’ citizenship.
“What might have been an abstract policy decision that’s taking place in Washington now is actually impacting communities,” said Walter Kim, head of the National Association of Evangelicals.
“If Jesus was at the border, would Christians let him in?” Tisby asks in his new documentary. “All too often, it seems as if, not only would they not let him in, they would celebrate blocking him out.”
Church of the Brethren delegates will consider at this summer’s Annual Conference a resolution on immigration urging civil disobedience when government policies conflict with biblical teachings.
“There simply isn’t enough capacity even for the local community. It’s much harder with a population that has been abandoned in places that are extremely difficult,” said Karen Perez, the country director for Jesuit Refugee Service in Mexico.
A group of religious organizations and faith leaders in Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging the agency is violating their religious freedom by denying them access to immigrant detainees at a local federal building.
This is my message to fellow Christians, especially evangelicals: We know better. We know better than to applaud the current mistreatment of immigrants in America.
When Szmara founded Immigrant Connection, a church-based network of legal clinics that assist immigrants, in 2014, some churches wanted to get involved, others said it was a good idea, and there was little resistance, he said. Now, he said, critics treat his work as anathema and ask him if he’s lost his faith.
