Immigration – Episcopal Cafe

Episcopalians join suit against President Trump’s emergency funding of border wall construction

August 27, 2019 8 Comments

The Brief concludes: “If President Trump is allowed to indulge this whim, he will turn to others. And the President has, repeatedly, singled out religious minorities for contempt. Amici therefore have a reasonable expectation that, if permitted to divert funds on this pretext, President Trump will later use that power to surveil, harass, and sanction disfavored religious minorities.”

Churches respond to threats of ICE raids

July 16, 2019 No Comments

It remains unclear where, how, or when the ramped-up ICE raids predicted by the President’s twitter account will materialize; but in the meantime, churches are taking their members’ fears seriously, and offering sanctuary, solace, and counsel where they can.

Interfaith Leaders Implore Trump, McConnell and Pelosi to End Shutdown

January 16, 2019 2 Comments

“On the issues of border security and our immigration policy, we agree with President Trump that we face a crisis of heart and soul, though we differ dramatically in our understanding of it. Differences aside, we are clear that inventing a new crisis by closing the government and adversely affecting so many innocent people does not help to address border security.”

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry critiques silence of religious moderates

October 25, 2018 18 Comments

“I’m concerned when I don’t hear religious leaders advocating for children to be number one on the social agenda of this country. I’m concerned when I hear silence from religious leaders after the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis marched through the streets of Charlottesville. I’m not hearing Jesus of Nazareth when I hear that silence.”

Sunday at General Convention

July 8, 2018 1 Comment

We gathered in song in a baseball park adjacent to the prison. Our hosts advised us that the women inside could hear us rallying and praying on their behalf.

Episcopalians keep up the prayer, pressure over immigration

June 26, 2018 No Comments

The prayers and public witness continue less than two weeks before General Convention’s planned prayer service outside an ICE detention center in Taylor, Texas, about forty minutes away from the Episcopal Church’s triennial meeting in Austin.

Prayer service planned at detention center during General Convention

June 21, 2018 No Comments

“Praying for the women who are detained helps us act out for ourselves and the world the humanity of those detained. It reminds us that they are children of God, even as the prison tries to make them something other than that.”

A growing list of bishops respond to the family separation crisis

June 20, 2018 7 Comments

A round-up of bishops’ responses as they are received.

Known By Its Fruit

June 20, 2018 No Comments

“The fact is, the US has received barely a trickle of the world’s refugees and asylums seekers in past months, whereas our friends in other countries have put our so-called Christian nation to shame with hospitality and compassion, albeit imperfectly.”

World Refugee Day is June 20

June 19, 2018 2 Comments

“It is because we are followers of Jesus, because we follow the way of love, because we follow the way of compassion, because we follow the way of human decency and kindness that we must be passionately committed to helping the refugees and displaced persons of this day” -PB Curry

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