Since federal immigration raids started in December in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Episcopalians have joined rallies, vigils and other events alongside interfaith partners and thousands of other protesters.
“I’ve been grieving viscerally. I’m also galvanized in my own faith to live my baptismal covenant; to reject Satan and all of his powers; to turn my life back over to Jesus and to follow him; and to do it with every fiber of my being,” the Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson, rector of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, told Episcopal News Service. “I think people need to hear what this state is doing and how we’re being in this moment, like how spiritually grounded of God it feels like not just in the church, but beyond the church.”
Weber-Johnson was one of some 90 faith leaders, including several Episcopal clergy, arrested on Jan. 23 while protesting at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. They were calling for the airport and airlines to stop cooperating with federal immigration enforcement agencies. Thousands of immigrants have reportedly been deported or flown to detention facilities from the airport. To read more, click here
