Religion

Faith Community Outraged by the Administration’s Devastation of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Diaz: “Trump administration is playing the role of persecutor, not protector” Washington, DC – The Trump administration is proposing another historic low refugee admissions goal of 15,000 for FY 2021, according to the administration’s report to Congress. The administration violated U.S. law by not ...

Calling on all people of faith, congregations, churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques to establish a volunteer network within their congregations to Get Out the Vote. This election will be the most critical in our lifetime! YOUR VOTE MATTERS The call to promote justice, compassion, and equality is one shared across all faiths. If we believe that our core ...

Listen to a recording of the press call here Silver Spring, MD – Last Thursday, ICE agents knowingly violated the agency’s Sensitive Locations policy and lied to Binsar Siahaan, an Indonesian asylum-seeker and six-year member of the Glenmont United Methodist Church, in order to arrest him and carry out his deportation.  In a clear violation of the ...

Organizing for Immigrants, Refugees, Black Lives – True Justice for All Washington, DC – It was another brutal August in the United States–both due to heat and the general state of things–but people of faith continued to show up and organize for justice for all. Black lives, immigrants, refugees. Everyone.  This summer, we followed our call to ...

Washington, DC – For years, the Krome immigration jail in Miami has been serving inedible food to Muslim people held there, including pork-based meals in violation of their religious beliefs. In a letter to various components within the Department of Homeland Security, Muslim Advocates, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and King & Spalding LLP wrote: During the ...

Washington, DC – This past Monday, #DACABells4Justice rang out in celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the administration’s unjust termination of DACA, in front of the court and all across the nation.  A total of 1,638 faith partners in eighteen states and the District of Columbia signed up to ring bells for DACA ...

Washington, DC – Since its inception, the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) has held one truth: Our diverse faith traditions compel us to welcome one another with love and compassion, regardless of place of birth, religion, or race. Yet religious institutions, communities, and leaders have fallen short of this ideal, and are complicit in the systemic ...

Washington, DC – On Pentecost Sunday, speaking before an empty Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Rev. William J. Barber III offered this: We cannot try to hurry up and put the screams and the tears and the hurt back in the bottle, just to get back to some normal that was abnormal in the ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Interfaith Immigration Coalition welcomes Thursday’s hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship about “The Current State of the U.S. Refugee Program.” “God calls us to welcome the stranger through concrete actions that provide safety and security to the world’s persecuted. The Trump administration’s asylum and refugee policies are ...

Washington, DC – Writing in The Hill, Sylvie Bello, the founder of the Cameroon American Council, and Rev. Dr. Sharon Stanley-Rea of Disciples of Christ highlight the implications for religious freedom in the U.S. government’s handling of the death of Nebane Abienwi. Nine weeks have passed since Neba died in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities. ...