Fearing ICE, many undocumented immigrants are worshipping in hiding as an alternative of at church

Many undocumented immigrants throughout the United States say they’re too afraid to attend church, after President Trump, on his first day in workplace, ended an previous coverage of designating locations of worship as delicate areas that have been off-limits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers. Priests and pastors at congregations throughout the nation inform CBS News that attendance has dropped sharply in consequence. Now, pastors are taking unprecedented measures — like locking doorways throughout providers and hiring volunteers on the doorways to ensure ICE brokers do not enter, welcoming worshippers into their houses for personal gatherings, and delivering communion on to their doorways — to make sure their communities can nonetheless observe their religion, even in hiding.

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