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...
View ArticleCommunity IDs Aren’t Only for Immigrants
Article by: Jennie Belle, Immigration and Farmworkers Director In the midst of election season, I have been reminded once again of the importance of having an ID in order to vote. When I went to my...
View ArticleDia 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...
View ArticleMourn, 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...
View ArticleAdvent 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...
View ArticleSanctuary, 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBlessed 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...
View ArticleAnswering 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...
View ArticleVideo 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...
View ArticleSB 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...
View ArticleGetting 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...
View ArticleFamilias Unidas, No Dividas
Just this week, the president signed an executive order ending the separation of families, but this order does not change the fact that thousands of children were stripped away from their parents and...
View ArticleCouncil Launches NC Sanctuary Coalition
The North Carolina Council of Churches and its allies across North Carolina invite others to join the NC Sanctuary Coalition. We first announced plans for the coalition at a press conference in March...
View ArticleThe Border as War
Sermon delivered by Council Governing Board member Isaac S. Villegas on May 28, 2018. Coming and going, leaving and arriving, exit and entrance. That’s the theme permeating these verse from Exodus 19....
View ArticleDefend Against the Implementation of 287g
Earlier this week, Mijente, a new political home for Latinx and Chicanx organizing, launched their “Abolish I.C.E.” tour in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the tour is to rally support across the...
View ArticleStranglehold Tightens Again for Immigrant Families
The draft of a new rule from the Department of Homeland Security was recently leaked to the press. On top of all the new restrictions and regulations related to immigration over the past sixteen...
View ArticleSupport the Sanctuary Movement
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God – what is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:2). As people of...
View ArticlePartner Congregations Provide Sanctuary for Woman in Chapel Hill
Remarks delivered by Executive Director Jennifer Copeland at a March 17 press conference in Chapel Hill on the Sanctuary Movement. At the North Carolina Council of Churches, we don’t pretend to be...
View ArticleCouncil hires new Program Coordinator for Immigration Advocacy
The North Carolina Council of Churches must replace our veteran Immigration Program Director, Jennie Belle, who will become the Faith Community Organizer for the national organization, Church World...
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