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Image: Bishop Mariann Budde preaching at the Service of Prayer for the Nation, the day after Trump’s inauguration, where she looked him directly in the eye and spoke truth to power.
News: 2025
January 21. Washington National Cathedral: Sermon by Reverend Mariann Budde.
January 22. NPR: Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR ‘I won’t apologize’ for sermon addressing Trump.
January 27. Jack Jenkins: In letter, Jewish groups urge Trump not to enact ‘widespread persecution of immigrants.’
January 30: National Council of Churches Urges ICE to Refrain from Entering Churches and Other Sensitive Locations.
January 31. Jack Jenkins: LDS Church: Members should care for the needy ‘regardless of immigration status.’
February 11. Christopher White: Pope decries ‘major crisis’ of Trump’s mass deportation plans, rejects Vance’s theology.
February 13. Maya Yang: ‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan.
February 14. Jack Jenkins: Lawmakers, faith groups push bill to prevent ICE raids on churches, sensitive locations.
March 11. Jack Jenkins: Evangelical groups hold vigil against Trump and Musk’s foreign aid cuts.
March 12. Michel Martin: Faith leaders push back against Trump cuts and what they see as erosion of democracy.
March 18. Jack Jenkins: Tracking the legal battles faith groups are fighting against the Trump administration.
March 31. Jack Jenkins: Evangelical, Catholic groups: 1 in 12 Christians could be impacted by Trump deportations.
April 16. NPR: Trump exploiting antisemitism fears to undermine rule of law, warns Jewish coalition.
May 4. Kimmy Yam: 130+ Jewish Georgetown members rebuke Trump for ‘weaponizing faith’ in wake of Badar Khan remarks.
May 7. Teresa Wiltz: He Got Arrested for Praying at the Capitol. He Has Thoughts On Protest Under Trump. Rev. William Barber on the future of protest politics during Trump 2.0.
May 7. Jack Jenkins: To put pressure on Trump, Democrats turn to religion — and religious activists: ‘Faith leaders have been at the forefront of every progressive movement in our nation’s history …so I’m glad to see faith leaders speaking out and getting into good trouble in opposition to the upcoming reconciliation bill,’ Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told RNS.
May 12. Jack Jenkins: Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition.
June 14. Jack Jenkins: At Philadelphia’s ‘No Kings’ protest, faith leaders urge crowd to ‘rebuke hate.’
July 23. Christopher Hale: Pope Leo’s Prayer Riders Join Miami Archbishop in Protest at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: Inmates denied Bibles as Trump and DeSantis’s prison guards claim “no right to religion.”
August 13. Episcopal News Service: Washington bishop, interfaith leaders oppose Trump militarization of DC: ‘Fear is not a strategy.’
August 24. Michelle Boorstein: He was a child refugee. Now he’s a bishop navigating Trump’s deportation push. San Diego Bishop Michael Pham, the first U.S. bishop picked by Pope Leo, is part of a new wave of clerical leaders speaking out about migrants’ rights.
August 25. Jack Jenkins: Clergy rally to defend Kilmar Abrego García as he is detained by ICE.
September 11. Maria J. Stephan: The 6 superpowers that faith communities bring to nonviolent struggle.
September 22. Rabbi Brant Rosen: God is in the Resistance: Sermon for Rosh Hashanah 5786.
October 3. Todd Feurer: Chicago alderwoman arrested by ICE agents while checking on detainee at hospital in Humboldt Park.
October 5. Joshua McElwee: Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants.
October 7. Jack Jenkins: In Chicago, clergy and faith-based protesters say ICE is threatening their religious freedom: Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who would Jesus deport?’
October 10. Anthea Butler: Pope Leo calls on U.S. bishops to stand up for migrants’ rights: The pope met this week with a group of more than 100 Latino Catholics from the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.
October 11. Heather Cox Richardson: A New Way to Think About Religion and Politics with James Talarico.
October 12. Ayesha Rascoe: A Chicago clergy member talks about the role faith leaders play in anti-ICE protests.
October 12. Natalie Martinez & Jorge DeSantiago: Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby.
October 22. Jason DeRose: Progressive Christians counter Christian Nationalism message.
October 23. Joshua McElwee: Pope Leo decries ‘grave crime’ of mistreatment of immigrants.
November 7. Sarah Schulte: Chicago business, civic and faith leaders join together to call for end to immigration raids.
November 12. Elizabeth Dias: Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants: In a rare statement, the bishops framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms. “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” they said.
November 13. Michael Woolf: Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE.
November 15. David Smith: ‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates: From Texas and Iowa to Arkansas, faith leaders are wading into politics to counter the rise of Christian nationalism.
November 15. Jack Jenkins: At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest.
November 17. Emma Cieslik & Max Kuzma: Of Course the Virgin Mary Would Trample ICE.
November 20. Jack Jenkins: Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees: ‘The Catholic Church recognizes service to people on the margins as corporal works of mercy that are cornerstones of Christianity,’ the legal complaint reads.
November 20. Jack Jenkins: Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees.
November 23. Bill McKibben: They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity: Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression.
November 28. Siri Chilukuri: Chicago’s faith leaders on front lines of resistance against ICE crackdown.
December 3. Tyche Hendricks: ‘They are not alone’: Migrants rely on faith communities amid immigration crackdown.
December 5. Jack Jenkins: ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations.
December 8. Jenna Russell: Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders.
December 9. Jack Jenkins and Aleja Hertzler-McCain: Priest says sisters slated for deportation are Christians who could face persecution by Iran.