vigils shine light on border ‘concentration camps’

Lakewood_Fla_UCC_LFL_190712a.jpg“United Church of Christ clergy and congregations took leadership, served as hosts, lit candles and planned follow-up actions during many of the hundreds of “Lights for Liberty” vigils held Friday evening, July 12. The events around the country protested the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers detained at the southern U.S. border, in what national vigil organizers refer to as concentration camps.” For more on this article that was written by Hans Holznagel please click here.

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