(RNS) — Faith leaders will first gather at Selma’s Tabernacle Baptist Church for a prayer service before marching silently on the Edmund Pettus Bridge toward the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.
NEW via @fiona-ndre.bsky.social, @fiona-murphy.bsky.social and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Cardinal Tobin celebrates Ash Wednesday Mass for detainees in Newark ICE facility (note: this is NJ, not in IL, where there are disputes about allowing this to happen) —> religionnews.com/2026/02/18/c...
Full story on this from @fiona-ndre.bsky.social:
“…Aliya Latif, the newly appointed executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Faith-Based Partnerships, said NY clergy ought to mobilize as forcefully as clergy who have protested ICE operations across the country.” religionnews.com/2026/02/06/a...
DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the government would appeal the decision.
“Supreme Court, here we come,” she wrote “Temporary means temporary and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench.”
Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark went inside an ICE detention facility to celebrate Ash Wednesday Masses with detainees this morning.
We caught him as he was leaving the facility and asked why he chose to celebrate the holy day with ICE detainees.
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In a last-minute hearing, a U.S. district Judge halted the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to strip 350,000 Haitians of their temporary protected status. The status was set to expire on Tuesday.
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