Posts Tagged ‘Trump administration’

Dozens of Catholics, priests arrested protesting child migrant treatment

Monday, July 22nd, 2019

Seventy people, including numerous priests and religious, were arrested last Thursday during a protest against the treatment of child migrants. They were part of a coalition of Catholic clergy members and supporters at Washington’s Capitol making their concerns known about the children being held in detention facilities along the US southern border. Capitol Police say Read more

Nativity scene shows baby Jesus in a cage – like other refugee kids

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Locking baby Jesus in a cage and corralling the wise men into an area marked “deportation” is not what you’d expect a nativity scene to look like. Yet this year’s nativity scene at St Susanna’s parish in Massachusetts shows exactly that scene. Set beneath a sign that asks the question “Peace on Earth?”, the scene Read more