A curious ship graffiti on the memorial slab to Sion Prys, d. 1765, buried at Newborough (Pedr Sant) church, Anglesey.

I'm not sure what to make of the projection off the bow. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be interested to hear of them!

Sadly, as in many cemeteries, power-strimming is slowly (and sometimes quickly) damaging the surfaces of ground-set slabs. Church authorities should try and limit its use near such memorials.

#churches #cemeteries #heritage #cymru #wales #graffiti #ships

As the Trump regime and MAGA sound an alarm about a protest in a Southern Baptist church led by an ICE agent-cum-pastor, Adam Carrasquillo takes us on an instructive stroll through all the times in the past year ICE terrorized worshipers at churches in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, Minneapolis, etc.

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #DonLemon #GeorgiaFort
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-terrorizing-worshipers-long-before-lemon-church-deportations-immigration-minneapolis-chicago-los-angeles-charlotte

As the Trump regime and MAGA sound an alarm about a protest in a Southern Baptist church led by an ICE agent-cum-pastor, Adam Carrasquillo takes us on an instructive stroll through all the times in the past year ICE terrorized worshipers at churches in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, Minneapolis, etc.

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #DonLemon #GeorgiaFort
/14

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-terrorizing-worshipers-long-before-lemon-church-deportations-immigration-minneapolis-chicago-los-angeles-charlotte

"They remind us freedom and liberty are vital, whether we happen to believe those rights are ordained by God or pragmatically important because human freedom under just law creates better societies."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
/6

"When asked, white evangelical Protestants were the only religious group with a majority who agreed with stripping U.S. citizens of their citizenship and deporting them if they were determined to be a threat to the country. ...

For too long, the Christian Right has acted as if it speaks for all Christians in America."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
/3

"They remind us freedom and liberty are vital, whether we happen to believe those rights are ordained by God or pragmatically important because human freedom under just law creates better societies."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
/6

(continued from /4)

"have poured into Minneapolis to train, preparing too bring skills of the resistance back to their communities if and when ICE is deployed back home.

Together, they represent the path to a pluralistic nation that organizes collectively across constituencies."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
/5

"And while it has gained power and pulled the most conservative believers into religious extremism, there remain believers in a tradition that has long motivated other sorts of Christians to fight for social justice.

Hundreds of leaders from a range of faiths—Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Indigenous practitioners—" (continued in /5)

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
/4

"When asked, white evangelical Protestants were the only religious group with a majority who agreed with stripping U.S. citizens of their citizenship and deporting them if they were determined to be a threat to the country. ...

For too long, the Christian Right has acted as if it speaks for all Christians in America."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
/3

"A recent report from PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) may be instructive. The poll was done between November 21 and December 8—before the most recent violent attacks by ICE. Then, the majority of Americans opposed political violence even in the name of their own political position. But I think the outliers were the real story: white Christians, white evangelicals, and Christian nationalists."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
/2

"In a recent New York Times/Sienna Research Institute poll, a majority of Americans polled said they disapproved of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is handling its job.

But 36 percent do still approve. Who are these people?"

~ Sarah Stankorb

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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https://sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/one-antidote-to-christian-nationalist

I've just read A.S. Duncan-Jones' WWII booklet The Crooked Cross (London: Macmillan, 1940). Duncan-Jones was Dean of the Anglican cathedral at Chichester, England. He sounded a strong warning about how Hitler and the Nazis developed a quasi-religious cult that twisted Christian symbols and teaching to promote authoritarianism. Just as with MAGA and Trump today, the Nazis presented Hitler as a messianic, manly figure sent by God to save their nation.

#Hitler #Nazis #Trump #MAGA #churches
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I've just read A.S. Duncan-Jones' WWII booklet The Crooked Cross (London: Macmillan, 1940). Duncan-Jones was Dean of the Anglican cathedral at Chichester, England. He sounded a strong warning about how Hitler and the Nazis developed a quasi-religious cult that twisted Christian symbols and teaching to promote authoritarianism. Just as with MAGA and Trump today, the Nazis presented Hitler as a messianic, manly figure sent by God to save their nation.

#Hitler #Nazis #Trump #MAGA #churches
/1

"Two clients he visited last week, a boy and a girl who are twins, turned 5 in the detention center. He explained that the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, which calls for kids to be treated humanely and for their release to be prioritized, says they can only be in detention for twenty days. The twin 5-year-olds, and their family members who are 9, 16, and 18, have been there for an appalling eight months, Lee said."

#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #churches #cruelty #inhumanity #children
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"Liam isn’t the only child or even the only 5-year-old jailed where he is now. Lawyer Eric Lee, who saw detainees with ashen faces when he went inside the Dilley, Texas detention center last week, told me his clients are dealing with bugs and dirt in their food, putrid water mixed with baby formula, and denial of medical care."

~ Adam Carrasquillo

#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #Christianity #cruelty #inhumanity #children #LiamRamos
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/liam-ramos-scared-5-year-old-boy-minnesota-national-conscience

"What do Foursquare Church leaders think of how the Department of Homeland Security, under Noem’s leadership, is terrorizing immigrants, children, and others in cities across the country?

What do Foursquare Church leaders think of federal agents, under Noem’s chain of command, executing Renee Good and Alex Pretti in the streets of Minneapolis?"

#KristiNoem #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #MAGA #DHS #ICE #CBP #immigrants #violence #Christianity #churches
/3

"A year after she asked Trump to have mercy on immigrants during a service after his inauguration, Bishop Mariann Budde told CNN she 'could not have even imagined how terrible the enforcement of this new immigration stance would be. The very things that I said that we feared has come to pass, It’s the fulfillment of our worst suspicions.'”

~ Ron Filipkowski

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #immigrants #violence #Christianity #churches
/6

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-296-12926

"Welcoming the stranger is central to who we are as Catholics and who we must be as a nation. At a time when fear speaks loudly in politics, workplaces and neighborhoods, the church's prophetic voice must rise above the noise. ...

This moment will test the moral imagination of our country and our church."

~ Rigoberto Caloca Rivas

#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/14

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/catholic-churchs-prophetic-voice-immigration-must-rise-above-noise-fear

"MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: 'Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!'

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it."

~ TN Holler

Linked posting has video footage of the masked thugs grabbing the mother and whisking her away as she makes a desperate call for help for her children.

#KristiNoem #Trump #MAGA #DHS #ICE #CBP #immigrants #violence #deportations #Christianity #churches
/10

https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mdmbsmem7k2c

"Pastor [Quinlan] Koch [one of some 100 faith leaders arrested during a protest at Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport vs. deportations] emphasizes how deeply his faith informs his politics, explaining that ICE’s actions go 'against the faith that I hold, that everyone is a beloved child of God, that everyone deserves dignity.'”

~ Mehdi Hasan

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #immigrants #violence #Christianity #churches
/7

https://zeteo.com/p/pastor-arrested-in-ice-protest-speaks