Near the end of David Black’s time on the stand in a federal courtroom in Chicago this month, the judge asked the Presbyterian Church (USA)
Dressed in a clerical collar and posing no threat, I was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by Illinois State Police while protesting outside the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Nov. 1.
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas announced Nov. 1 that one of its priests, a Kenyan national, has been detained by immigration officials despite working in the state legally.
The Church of the Brethren and other members of Church World Service condemned White House efforts to abandon the U.S. Refugee Program in an Oct. 22 statement.
I rarely wear a shirt with a clerical collar — or anything else that indicates I’m ordained clergy. In my little Mennonite congregation, everyone knows I’m their pastor, and besides, among the priesthood of all believers, we are all called, and I don’t want to look pretentious.
The Trump administration’s deportation of more than a hundred Iranians held in ICE custody on a flight that touched down in Tehran on Sept. 29 includes Christian converts and other religious minorities who may face harsh penalties for their religious beliefs upon return to the Islamic Republic.
A 25-foot mural at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, unveiled and blessed during Sunday Mass on Sept. 21, honors generations of immigrants to New York, taking on a new meaning in today’s political climate.
Strangers in the Land, the recently published book by New Yorker editor Michael Luo, chronicles the journey of Chinese immigrants to the American West, and then eastward across the country. Perhaps inevitably, it is also an account of the violence and bigotry directed against them, which only became more intense as the boom years of the Western Gold Rush gave way to the economic downturn that followed the Civil War.
