Religious Leaders Across Faith…2025-06-19
In Los Angeles, hundreds of worshippers and religious leaders gathered Wednesday evening for an interfaith march to protest recent federal immigration raids targeting undocumented immigrants.
Carrying flowers and messages of peace, the demonstrators walked through downtown to the steps of the federal building, condemning what they described as a campaign of fear and dehumanization.
Pastor Tanya Lopez of Downey Memorial Christian Church shared with The Los Angeles Times a troubling encounter outside her own church, where she witnessed plainclothes federal agents arrest a man in the parking lot. “I tried to intervene, but he was taken anyway,” she said. “I still don’t know where he is.” For Pastor Lopez, these actions go against spiritual values: “All our faith traditions teach us to love our neighbor and to lessen suffering. What we are witnessing inflicts generational trauma,” she told the Times…