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Progressive faith leaders found new power in protesting ICE. Can their movement survive success?

Not since the Civil Rights Era has the religious left so publicly and collaboratively protested in the name of a social question they regard as a spiritual one.

Attendees role play scenarios of interacting with immigration agents during a rapid response training organized by G92 at Central Christian Church

Attendees role play scenarios of interacting with immigration agents during a rapid response training organized by G92 at Central Christian Church, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Springfield, Ohio. (RNS photo/Kathryn Post)

(RNS) — Two years ago, the Rev. Quincy Worthington did not consider himself an activist. The minister of a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation in Highland Park, Illinois, he was outspoken on issues such as racial justice, but his public advocacy was mostly limited to statements and attending an occasional protest.

Last fall, however, Worthington found himself hauling fellow faith leaders off the pavement after they had been beaten and...

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