“Jesus Is Being Tear Gassed At Broadview”

Kardon is among the more than 210 signers of a letter signed by mostly Chicago-area Christian clergy. Titled “Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview,” the letter railed against ICE and agents “hunting and terrorizing of immigrant communities” in the city. The letter was made public the same day Kardon was arrested and has accrued more than 100 additional signatures since then.

The Rev. Hannah Kardon. (Photo courtesy of the United Church of Rogers Park) The letter referenced multiple efforts to provide Communion to immigrants detained in the facility — both of which were denied by the Department of Homeland Security — as well as a recent viral video of the Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister, being shot with pepper balls by agents as he prayed outside the facility.

“We come offering bread and prayer, hope for justice and healing — we leave washing pepper spray out of each other’s eyes,” the letter reads.

But the letter, citing the example of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., argues clergy are nonetheless compelled by their faith to advocate for immigrants, even amid threats of violence.

Kardon is among the more than 210 signers of a letter signed by mostly Chicago-area Christian clergy. Titled “Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview,” the letter railed against ICE and agents “hunting and terrorizing of immigrant communities” in the city. The letter was made public the same day Kardon was arrested and has accrued more than 100 additional signatures since then.

The letter referenced multiple efforts to provide Communion to immigrants detained in the facility — both of which were denied by the Department of Homeland Security — as well as a recent viral video of the Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister, being shot with pepper balls by agents as he prayed outside the facility.

“We come offering bread and prayer, hope for justice and healing — we leave washing pepper spray out of each other’s eyes,” the letter reads.

But the letter, citing the example of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., argues clergy are nonetheless compelled by their faith to advocate for immigrants, even amid threats of violence. Kardon is among the more than 210 signers of a letter signed by mostly Chicago-area Christian clergy. Titled “Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview,” the letter railed against ICE and agents “hunting and terrorizing of immigrant communities” in the city. The letter was made public the same day Kardon was arrested and has accrued more than 100 additional signatures since then.

The letter referenced multiple efforts to provide Communion to immigrants detained in the facility — both of which were denied by the Department of Homeland Security — as well as a recent viral video of the Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister, being shot with pepper balls by agents as he prayed outside the facility.

“We come offering bread and prayer, hope for justice and healing — we leave washing pepper spray out of each other’s eyes,” the letter reads.

But the letter, citing the example of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., argues clergy are nonetheless compelled by their faith to advocate for immigrants, even amid threats of violence.

“We accept that following Christ’s example may mean we are mocked and assaulted, opposed and even arrested,” the letter reads. “Jesus has guidance for this as well, saying, ‘Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.’ If he were living today, we believe he might add ‘pepper spray, body slam and arrest you’ to his beatitude.”

Signers of the letter represent an unusually diverse array of Christian groups, hailing from Presbyterian, Catholic, Black Protestant, United Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, Mennonite, Episcopalian, Anglican, Unitarian Universalist, Disciples of Christ and Baptist traditions, as well as evangelical denominations and nondenominational evangelical churches.

“We accept that following Christ’s example may mean we are mocked and assaulted, opposed and even arrested,” the letter reads. “Jesus has guidance for this as well, saying, ‘Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.’ If he were living today, we believe he might add ‘pepper spray, body slam and arrest you’ to his beatitude.”

Signers of the letter represent an unusually diverse array of Christian groups, hailing from Presbyterian, Catholic, Black Protestant, United Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, Mennonite, Episcopalian, Anglican, Unitarian Universalist, Disciples of Christ and Baptist traditions, as well as evangelical denominations and nondenominational evangelical churches.

“We accept that following Christ’s example may mean we are mocked and assaulted, opposed and even arrested,” the letter reads. “Jesus has guidance for this as well, saying, ‘Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.’ If he were living today, we believe he might add ‘pepper spray, body slam and arrest you’ to his beatitude.”

Signers of the letter represent an unusually diverse array of Christian groups, hailing from Presbyterian, Catholic, Black Protestant, United Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, Mennonite, Episcopalian, Anglican, Unitarian Universalist, Disciples of Christ and Baptist traditions, as well as evangelical denominations and nondenominational evangelical churches.

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