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Faith Communities Bring Voice to Values
July 25, 2025
At their 25th biennial General Synod in July 2025, the United Church of Christ passed a Resolution of Witness called “Responding to the federal government’s attack on immigrants, migrants and refugees. This public denunciation, calling ICE raids “domestic terrorism,” marks one of the strongest rebukes of President Trump’s immigration enforcement by a major U.S. Christian denomination, according to this Newsweek article or this NCR article.
Other similar rebukes have come from Catholic figures such as Rev. Michael Pham, bishop of San Diego, CA, who joined several of his colleagues in calling for priests, deacons and parish leaders to accompany migrants to court and stand in solidarity with them.
Here in Wisconsin, 15 orders of Catholic sisters, including the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, took out full (some smaller) page ads in major newspapers across the state to express their vision for a “future full of hope” that centered on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. They encourage us all to “love our neighbor! Welcome the stranger! Care for the most vulnerable amongst us! Speak the truth! Work for justice! Only when ‘we the people’ lead with compassion and empathy will a future filled with hope for generations be possible.” Read more here.
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