Immigration crackdown gives Holy Week new meaning at this New York church

NEW YORK ‒ The Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz led a grave procession around a Brooklyn block on Good Friday .

About 60 people ‒ with a mariachi group ‒ walked near the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. That’s where Ruiz serves an immigrant, mostly Latino, congregation in the Bay Ridge neighborhood.

The band played somber hymns marking Good Friday, a mournful day during Holy Week. But the procession carried even more weight this year…

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