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"In the nearby Diocese of Orange, priests are now celebrating Mass in people’s homes in order to protect them from ICE. We are now a country which is driving religious practice underground. Ask yourself where you have seen this sort of thing before." thebulwark.com/p/the-parasite…

Incredible reporting via Yonat Shimron: Amid a court battle w/faith groups over Trump’s decision to freeze the refugee program, a refugee who isn’t an Afrikaner — a plaintiff in the case — finally arrived in the U.S. yesterday. One reporter was present. religionnews.com/2025/07/11/pla…

What are you reading this weekend?

Led by Catholic leaders and advocates, hundreds are marching from Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in a silent procession to the ICE office in Detroit to hand deliver a letter calling for humane treatment of immigrants. Archbishop of Detroit Edward Weisenburger is here walking.

The Pentagon has signed on to use Grok, the AI chatbot built by Elon Musk's company xAI, as part of a new $200M agreement

NEW from me: My dispatch from the first worship service of Christian nationalist Doug Wilson’s new church plant in DC over the weekend, where Pete Hegseth sat near the front and the pastor preached beneath an US flag. “Worship is warfare,” the pastor said religionnews.com/2025/07/14/wit…

Via The Associated Press: Leaders of Holy Land churches condemn Israeli settler violence during a West Bank visit —> apnews.com/article/west-b…

Excellent Jack Jenkins reporting on Christ Kirk (no relation, I assume, to Charlie Kirk, except ideologically): With Pete Hegseth in the pews, a Christian nationalist church plant launches in DC religionnews.com/2025/07/14/wit…

Some context on Wilson and Christ Church, which opened a plant in DC this weekend: politico.com/news/magazine/…

NEW via RNS: The United Church of Christ has passed a resolution decrying ICE’s actions under Trump as “domestic terrorism,” accusing the Trump admin of weaponizing the Constitution, and calling for divestment from for-profit private detention companies. religionnews.com/2025/07/15/uni…

The thing to watch here: resolutions like this can *sometimes* create a domino effect that inspires other religious groups to do the same, and there are multiple other denominational gatherings this summer.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration says it is ending deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

Via Yonat Shimron: Judge orders government to admit more refugees whose flights were canceled —> religionnews.com/2025/07/15/jud…