A successful appeal has cleared the way for Mennonite Church USA and other denominations to again seek protection for churches in “sensitive locations” from immigration enforcement activities.
A successful appeal has cleared the way for Mennonite Church USA and other denominations to again seek protection for churches in “sensitive locations” from immigration enforcement activities.
As Haitian Christians led a pilgrimage across Ohio, their witness offered a different vision of Christian power — and a reminder of what happens when churches forget whom they serve.
Beyond supporting families in distress, the group hopes to activate Christians, especially white or English-speaking evangelicals, to help immigrants as deportations have ramped up.
Eighty religious plaintiffs from 11 major faith traditions have joined lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies, according a tracker developed by RNS with the Law, Rights, and Religion Project.
Construction by Mennonite Disaster Service’s Texas unit of a new building for a Mennonite church plant in Lamesa, Texas, has been delayed after deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in late August impacted volunteers in the Old Colony Mennonite community.
The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. So does the government.
Churches are calling for restraint, humanitarian support and law and order as xenophobic unrest deepens.
The second episode of ‘Faith on the Immigration Frontline’ follows Audrey Luhmann, mother of eight, as she patrols courthouses, responds to community alerts, gathers supplies for immigrants and cares for her family.
Refugees and locals will live together in a new apartment complex supported by Schwandorf Mennonite Church in Germany.
Not long ago, citizens of the European Union were proud of their status as guarantors of human rights and social peace. Upheavals of the past — when economic rivalry and religious differences forced people, including Mennonites, to flee to the New World — had become nothing more than historical events.
