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SB 145 Debate Not in Accordance with Matthew 25

Article by: Jennie Belle, Immigration and Farmworkers Director Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee of the North Carolina General Assembly discussed SB 145, an anti-immigrant bill that would...

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Video of Webinar: Loving Our Neighbors in a New Administration (con subtítulos)

Article by: Jennie Belle, Immigration and Farmworkers Director Did you miss our webinar, ““Loving Our Neighbors in a New Administration?” If so, please watch the one-hour video below to learn ways to...

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Answering your Questions about Sanctuary

Article by: Aleta Payne, Deputy Executive Director President Trump’s recent executive actions impacting refugees and immigrants have faithful people increasingly interested in how they might support...

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Blessed not Blocked or Banned

Article by: Aleta Payne, Deputy Executive Director This Sunday’s Gospel reading was the Beatitudes, Matthew 5:1-12. Jesus says blessed nine times, but he never says blocked or banned. When Jesus saw...

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The Threat is not from Immigrants and Refugees

Article by: Aleta Payne, Deputy Executive Director The Council has had a busy weekend. Much of the staff was helping with the Beyond Gun Violence Conference at United Church of Chapel Hill, but we also...

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Sanctuary, Not Deportation

Article by: Jennie Belle, Immigration and Farmworkers Director First in a series of three blogs. God calls people of faith to remember that they once were strangers in a strange land and they must,...

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Advent Calendar to Support Immigrants and Refugees

Today when I logged onto Facebook, among all the heartbreaking news in our world (some from credible sources, others questionable), I was taken with a graphic shared by Hacking Christianity, a blog...

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Mourn, Pray, Serve, Organize

Last week’s election has left a lot of people filled with anxiety and uncertainty, especially our brothers and sisters who immigrated here. Millions of people who have come here from other countries or...

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Dia de los Muertos: Honor for the Dead; Justice for the Living

Article by: Aleta Payne, Deputy Executive Director By Nina Voli, Duke Divinity School Intern Historically, the celebration of Halloween has its origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain, a pagan...

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Getting Going Again – Welcome The Immigrant

WelcomeTheImmigrant.com was a website started by a group of churches in North Carolina that were concerned over how what they perceived was rising anti-immigrant rhetoric and sentiment in North...

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