What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Shameful When will enough Americans wake up
Really, its gotten out of hand. They need to reassess what they are doing and what the goal is
This is what fascism looks like 👍
Where's the Christian Right outrage over this?
....amazingly absent...
The contrast b/w Christian Conservatives & religious leaders praying & protesting outside an illegal concentration camp for immigrants, when Christianity for centuries decried cruelty toward migrants, is very telling re: Cons🤷
All rights to protest are now rescinded? Did Congress change the law?
Remember Daniel Berrigan???? This is what it takes. We changed the direction of the Vietnam War and we will stop this inhumane deportation.
Proof Republicans and true Christians are mutually exclusive.
It's about time some priests got arrested though 🤔
Law Enforcement actions must be led by good Christian morals…
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TIME MAG has so many perfect pics to use now!
So Pritzker is all words no action?
Faith leaders persecuted for supporting human rights (as jesus calls). GOP whine when denied a "Christian" Nation!
America.
Doesn't need to be clergy. Arresting large numbers of any innocent group should be enough to convince everyone the fascists are evil. As for the willfully ignorant magats? They'll simply say these aren't truly religious people.
This story tells me that out of control fools are in charge.
They are out of control and nothing you can done, will stop them!
We need to pick a date to go out ICE hunting. I'm free any day/night.
Contrast this with the deluded Evangelicals who openly supported this regime. Where are your "Christian" values now ??
The party of Christian values, ladies and gents! 😖
Jesuit priest Bernhard Lichtenberg was arrested by Hitler’s regime in 1941 after publicly praying for Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution.
He was sentenced to prison and died while being transported to Dachau concentration camp.
ICE = MAGA Trump Voter Cowards hiding behind masks.
The Nazi Sturmabteilung never wore masks. They had nothing to hide, yet utilized for the same purpose as the ICE.
Why did the Nazi Sturmabteilung have more courage than MAGA Trump Voter Cowards hiding behind masks?
The anti-imigration Christians vs the pro-immigration Christians.. Which one was the anti-womens rights christian? So many...
"A picture is worth a thousand words, " especially in a fascist country.
Why were they arrested? What charges?
Jesus would be proud!
Pure evil. 😠
God bless those clergy! They are taking the Lord’s work to another level.
These men who call themselves ICE have zero conscience left. If these things don’t make you second guess your work… you are truly meant for hell.
I'm so proud. I wish my legacy as a faith leader was trying to thwart the efforts of agents trying to make my city safer. I googled "Stupid Fuck" and this same picture showed up!
Fucking christians did this
#ReleaseTrumpEpsteinFiles #FDT #EpsteinBallroom #FuckICE #TrumpIsInsane #TaxTheRich #NationalStrike #TraitorTot
😢🤦🏼♀️🤬WTAF?
Proof they’re not Christians Bc God will get you for that!
You can thank SCOTUS for this. It is SO important to vote for the opposition to this in 26. tRump may be immune from most of these actions thanks to the SC but his minions are not. If we can get control of the House & Senate we can bring these people before congress, justice is on the horizon.
God’s work.
Name and shame the feds and cops who did it. As long as they get to remain anonymous there is no pressure to stop.
Looks like democracy to me 🙄
Please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think about ICE/mass deportations. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. Just need people to participate. Also see Initiative No. 2 on my website: www.nationalfinancialplan.com
Part of Christian Nationalism is that only the "right" kind of Christians are accepted. And a Christian who thinks immigrants should be treated with dignity is, in their eyes, the wrong kind of Christian.
How does it feel? These religious fanatics tried to & continue to conquer the world, now they’re seen as the vermin they are. No sympathy here!
Too bad they don't fight so hard against their coworkers; molester priests, pastors, n youth leaders!
I’m at the point, when we boot the GOP from power, that I’m good with firing squads for these guys.
More than a few priests were shot or imprisoned during the rise of Third Reich for simply trying to do the RIGHT thing and voice protest against the ostracizing of Jews and others demonized by the Nazi party. Just saying.
“…our cherished christians” my ass.
This is what happens when you choose Bible Jesus over Republican Jesus.
I'm torn.
If only fascists cared about being the good guys.
Photo of the year. Americans’ shame.
I guess they consider clergy to be "violent rioters" and "imbecilic morons" now. When Homeland Security posts hateful propaganda like this, none of us are safe and we are no longer being governed by an administration that cares about the will or well-being of the nation.
Look world. This is the face of the US under the man waging a war on his cities, on thousands of innocent, hard-working immigrants, a foreign nation with oil he wants and demanding billions from the BBC over a small error. He is the ugly American. This pastor is a true patriot.
How will the 6 Catholics on US Supreme Court react to that? Only thing religious people can do is block abortion clinics & influence SCOTUS votes?
I looked at the videos...looks like State police doing the arrests...could be border patrol(most are fat). Are ICE facilities tasked to process people but used as prisons even legal?
So The REAL Christians are the ones going to jail.
See how that works?
This is the evangelical utopia fascists wanted and voted for - the rest of the religious folks are not wanted or needed. Their usefulness is over. Bed. Fleas. Time to delouse. @govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social - how long will you tolerate this in your state?
We are here now....
Time to withhold tax payments.
#DefundThePolice #DefundTheRegime
Chicago sending only their handsomest warriors in this battle
WAKE-UP EVERYBODY 🌊 🌊 🌊 @govicente.bsky.social will be held accountable for their participation. #NUREMBERG these fools are the Oathkeepers and Proud Boys ~ pansyass cowards. 🤦🏻♀️🤬🖕🏻💥 KMA #maga
#resist
And which party is responsible for these horrible acts???
trump is truly the anti-Christ, isn't he?
I can not find the words to describe how disgusted and angry I am. Wherd is the mayor and govenor?
God is watching
Who is persecuting the Christians?
This is evil personified. They’re NOT the guys and they don’t care.
Nigeria… blah blah blah…War on Christianity… blah blah blah…
Who is in charge of the state police? This is nuts.
We are well past the Rubicon.
God bless the clergy who are fighting for justice.
Wow. I really think Pope Leo needs to pay a visit.
This image is straight out of the Graham Greene novel, THE POWER AND THE GLORY. The protagonist is a priest who’s on the run when a fictional government is hunting down priests. The novel made a huge impression on me when I first read it as an undergrad.
Arrested for practicing compassion. What our country has become under the GOP. Pedophilia; Felony; Treason; ALL OK, but compassion and humanity is criminal -- shame on them all!
Has the pope tweeted a prayer for them?
This could be your preacher. Now, what do you think? ICE are not the good guys nor this reckless administration.
Done with Christian support of their new God!
Are we Great yet?
LE field administrators (Sgts, Lts, Capt.) need to be asked about their policies on legal protests by their community. The orders to engage comes from the top—they need to be on the record about their informed decisions.
So Christian's are being persecuted So the 1st Amendment isn't working. What's the next one? NRA Your advice please
Every single person who made this happen must be made to account
Neither this administration nor ICE have any Christian integrity. If you think they do, then you have no Christian integrity. Everything they do is contrary to God’s teaching.
The Pedophile's Administration proves to us again that they are Christian, AF
Who does this? Where do you come from? What happened to you? Who throws down a man of prayer and arrests him? I’m compelled to pray for you too but know the world is watching your cruelty and the people’s response
Lord for give them, for they know not what they do, is what Jesus would say. I say, fuck that, they do know and are a bunch of tough guy wannabes that would cry to their mommies if the same was done to them.
So many award-winning photos to pick from this year!
Surprised??? This is the same administration that protects pedos. This is a regime that has a pedo as its leader and his supporters doing mental yoga to defend the sick shit. They will do anything to try and divert attention away from the pile of shit in the WH to any shiny object they can find.
Since when the right to peaceful assembly is no longer there?
Something about this sends chills up my spine.
Going to communion on Sunday, ICE agents:
"Sorry about your shoulder pastor, I didn't mean to drive it into the curb quite that hard, I pray you're feeling better...Amen"
The memes write themselves at this point, FFS.
Feckin Kents.
I see a Pulitzer.
Where is JD Vance? Where are the ride or die Catholics?
@popeleoxiv.bsky.social are you going to take this assault on your church?
JD Vance is building concentration camps for you and every person of faith
No room for love in the white nationalist church
Catholics making sure that, this time, they're on the right side of history in a big way.
maybe they were selling Biden autographed bibles instead of drumpf bibles
This is astonishing. I’m a 70 year old white male living in America and I cannot believe the shit this con man is doing to my beloved country. What is wrong with people.
It says "faith leaders"... just how many were Evangelical Preachers? And I'm asking of those arrested, not those wearing masks, and terrorizing citizens. Well, actually it would be nice to know just how many Evangelical Preachers are "called" to serve ICE by their faith.
I’ve said this before. Minimum 10 years to life without parole for everyone in ICE and those who oversee them. Noem, Homan and Miller. Life for those 3 for sure. ICE as murdered People.
I suggest that clergy have a moral obligation to encounter injustice wherever they see it, but especially w/ an 🟧admin (ab)using scripture and the Christian faith to introduce lawlessness as normality.
In 1930 Gandhi marcher 240 miles to make salt from the sea, to protest British rule. 60,000 were arrested for joining in.
Trump-supporting Christians have stamped the name of Christian America into the mire. Perhaps it's time for decent Christians to make a stand and protest ICE en masse.
Stunning difference in a man who lives his faith and wears the crucifix as a reminder of what sacrifice was made to save humanity and the mouthpiece of a vile, corrupt and blasphemous regime who wore it as a signal to the christian nationalists...
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Spanky’s secret police will get much worse!
Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is demanding answers on Homeland Security’s reported intent to pay an army of private citizens to help surveil immigrants.
WTF.
❤️🔥💙
trump and GOP are not Christians nor believe in the Bible. Would one think the wealthy have their own Bible? Maybe it's called Project 2025??
Release the damn Epstein Files already!
Agree. This photo is heartbreaking. Reposting with photographer credit:
Actually to be safe, Americans need to have only about 52 people arrested: Besides Trump & 25 members of his cabinet, there is the Vice President & 15 principal officers & 10 other member... Hurry it up!
Had this been a clergyman of color, would there have been a knee on the neck?
Just when I think they can’t go any lower, they hit the basement.
»Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility […] Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, was among those arrested, a Reuters photo showed.« […]
trump is so very clearly an anti-christ figure, in every detail. Priests shot and ground under bootheel is the natural result. This ongoing festering scene in Broadview is like the bedroom from the Exorcist.
This madness has to stop or it will end very badly.
Beyond shocking
Okay, no separation between church & state
This is what they mean????
Jesus said,
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:10
And @govpritzker.illinois.gov allowed this to happen - it was his State Troopers along with local police helping the Border Fascists and Ice-stapo.
evangelicals are not Christians, they have co-opted the name to justify their being the worst in humanity on the scale of ISIS or sufficiently close enough to it to make it hard to distinguish.
Iconic image of Trump‘s presidency!!!
I am so grateful to these people for standing up to this outrageous behavior.
Blasphemous. Disrespectful and Uncouth. There will be no Blessing coming from this action. This administration has doomed itself.🤨🤬
Trump's war on Christians.
Won't budge because religion is one thing that makes these people irrational. They'll just say he's controlled by demon or something. This won't budge shit.
That's really egregious to throw faith leaders to the ground! They're supposed to represent peace. I hope they sue Kristi Noem & all her avatars.
What part of the teachings of Jesus does MAGA follow????
Disgusting. But, dang, we have good looking pastors in the Chicago area.
Glad to see clergy stepping up.
Again, the whole maga white Christian nationalism body is fueled by hate, ignorance, greed; full-on anti-Christ energy driving these people and they refuse to wake up.
Some heroes have capes, but some have cameras. 💪🏻 📸
Photographers are capturing history changing moments. Huge kudos to them for risking their safety to inform the public of the DEPLORABLE treatment of faith leaders & others activists.
When we survive this, they will need to be celebrated.
White religious figure face in pavement is an easy pic for resistance
As always, the story continues, and it only gets worse, because he won't stop.
ICE needs to be melted to the point of evaporation. Don’t tell me these folks are dangerous.
Oh!
We thought religions was protected?
Ha! Just there to fleece the sheep.
So happy the Catholic Bishops spoke out yesterday 💙 Tom Homan, the "good catholic" is a disgrace
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Pritzker talks big but he's a coward, his state police are beating and arresting protesters.
Good solid Christians arresting pesky upholders of the teachings of Christ.
Powerful photograph.
I wonder how this minister managed to "clash" with ICE? Does Reuters usually report peaceful demonstrators being put on the ground facedown as a clash with ICE? Seems like Reuters is engaging in mischaracterization of the protest.
Illinois Sheriff Scofield roughed up the priest. WTF Tom Dart?
My question is Where are the people en masse putting a stop to all the things we sneer at, wring our hands or lose another piece of our soul over ALL day?
This country didn’t come into being through punditry, posts and protests.
I guess capitalism breeds ignorance and apathy. Go figure.
' Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, was among those arrested, a Reuters photo showed.'
bio of the Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf: https://www.lakestreet.org/ministers-and-staff
They do not have private jets so they are not relevant faith leaders for GOP.... Probably some suspicious guys who may think Jesus was Jewish or something.
“What did you do at work today dad “
“Kicked the shit out of a vicar “
“ I’m so proud “
According to Trump's own #NSPM-7 this is #DomesticTerrorism #ICE and #DHS attacking #Christians #FaithLeaders #AntiAmericanICE
Any day, America. I have my hole-punchers ready. ICE could be melted in a week.
ICE are Nazis who 100% need a Nuremberg
Special place in hell
Proves this is a project of Satan as Satan heads the whole thing
Like their leader, the Trump Ice Gestapo is completely disrespectful even to the Clergy!
This is 'murika orange- PEDOFÜHRER-style.
Want to see ICE monsters in those cuffs, bent over, wondering what will happen to them next, someday. Kristi first….
Trump’s war on Christianity
This regime is disgusting
This is a regime, NOT an administration.
Every War has at least one. Some get hung. Some get crucified www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZM9...
YouTube video by Angel
What a display of the right Christianity. They don't follow Jesus, but the Gestapo 😪💔
Coward States in America sitting back & doing nothing - shame on you !
The ICE NAZIS literally doing NAZI SHIT from back in their days in Adolf Hitler's time.
“They are not going far enough” he says.
In the Civil Rights Movement you could count on the clergy to be in the front lines
glad to see some are joining the Immigrants Fight
Incredible!
Oooo. I have a feeling hell is getting ready for their golden Hall of Fame.
The Tump GOP ICE terrorist brutally assualt and arrest peaceful clergy while concommitantly Trump pardons convicted criminals - the Trump GOP fascist regime has gone well beyond horror
That's a really bad look for Ice.
I have wondered when the true Christians would stand up and denounce the fake cross wearing hate filled ones. I know they exist but it’s been too quiet. Good for them to take a stand.
Are Trump's goons ignoring the First Amendment right to peaceful protest now?
Impeach the traitor..
They know they're the bad guys. They think it's funny. They think they'll get away with it.
Let's prove them wrong.
When will this madness stop??? Shared. Needs to go viral.
"Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story"
If in the line of your duty, if a face mask is required, you're not the good guys in the story.
Our once-great nation has gone full Fascist. 🤬
This is just open thuggery, no attempt to sneak around or hide it
Trump is pure evil.
Those who support him are immoral
Never forget
Is THIS the America we WANT to be????
Pulitzer Prize material.
But saying “happy holidays” is a war on Christianity
Getting “Thornbirds” vibes here.
What is happening in this country, for the love of God?!?!
Would a devout Christian do this and still be a proud boy ? Maybe 3% took the oath , and they keep their promises.
Just disgraceful.
See how supposed "Christians" treat actual fellow Christians...
Where is Pritzker. Has he disappeared off the face of the earth?
Why doesn’t SOMEONE - maybe in Democratic leadership show these photos to Johnson or Thune or Vance etc. and demand an explanation? Better yet, why aren’t these pictures enlarged and on the front pages of every newspaper? For God’s sake! Make sure EVERYONE knows what is actually happening!
So, they made Protesting a Crime. And the MSM are silent.
Heil Shitler. 😡🤬😱😭
