Lessons from the past as immigrants take church sanctuary

[rangerrebew]

Lessons from the past as immigrants take church sanctuary
 
By JEFF GAMMAGE and The Philadelphia Inquirer - Associated Press - Saturday, February 17, 2018

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Bruce Beyer says claiming sanctuary in a church can be a powerful protest tactic, guaranteed to generate lots of publicity.

But nobody should think that moving into a church - as a Mexican family of five has done in Philadelphia, to avoid deportation - will ultimately offer much of a shield.

It didn’t help him.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/17/lessons-from-the-past-as-immigrants-take-church-sa/

[skeeter]

No church has the right to squander the authority granted it by the Word of God to make purely political gestures.