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WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the executive orders signed by President Trump on the first day of his second term and subsequent reports of ICE raids, Sojourners offered the following statement:
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Washington, DC: On January 6, 2021, some who stormed the U.S. Capitol wore or carried messages suggesting that their faith had motivated them to attack American democracy. One of the first rioters to enter the Senate Chamber carried a Christian flag, while others at the Capitol that day waved Bibles. Many who committed acts of violence that day in the name of their faith faced justice for their actions are now seeking and may receive unconditional pardons.
Sojourners in the News
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rev. Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners, a Christian social justice group that's holding weekly vigils on Capitol Hill in protest of the Trump administration.
Also among the signers to the leaders’ letter are the Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the U.S. and Canada .... the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners; and Richard Santos, president and CEO of Church World Service.
The Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, the national social justice advocacy organization, is partnering with interfaith leaders from more than 20 denominations and religious groups to pray in the shadow of the Capitol on Wednesdays from Ash Wednesday through the end of March. Besides praying for an end to attempts to freeze federal grants, dismantle agencies and threaten birthright citizenship, the gatherings will be “calling on Congress to protect its powers and to advance the common good,” said Taylor.
The progressive Christian social justice advocacy organization Sojourners is helping churches respond after a recent Trump administration decision to allow illegal immigration enforcement at houses of worship.
Sandy Ovalle, Sojourners' senior director of campaigns and mobilizing, told The Christian Post that her organization is working with Latino church leaders, pastors and others as part of ' a network of churches that we've created for this time.'
The hope is to be a resource to immigrant churches, where the pastor or members of their churches are immigrants.
Standing in solidarity with communities and individuals being targeted by President Trump and the MAGA movement involves giving time and money to organizations that are working to block the administration’s most egregious and often illegal actions in the courts and to efforts to organize nonviolent and strategic resistance to these harmful policies (such as Democracy Forward, Sojourners, Public Citizen, and so many others).