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Inside a Brooklyn church where immigration activism is the gospel

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By Fiona André Verified
| Religion News Service Verified
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, minutes before their afternoon service, members of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church gathered around a wooden table in the entrance of their Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, sanctuary for one of the congregation’s most sacred rituals: a potluck meal. Congregants filled their plates from aluminum trays with rice and beans and chicken stew, then took their seats for a meal that has, for a few years now, helped bind this tight-knit community together.
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'It really did take me back to after 9/11': How Islamophobia roiled a Texas election

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By Fiona André Verified
| Religion News Service Verified
FRISCO, Texas (RNS) — When Aneela Charania approached Frisco’s city council office on May 20, she said she immediately felt fear creep in. Charania, who is Muslim, had come to a public comment meeting about construction projects for a mosque and two Hindu temples. In the parking lot, Charania, who wears a hijab, texted a neighbor to ask if she could be escorted from her car to the room, as she feared being targeted.
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In Richmond, churches retrace the path of the enslaved

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By Fiona André Verified
| Northern Virginia Daily Verified
RICHMOND — From 1830 to 1860, tens of thousands of enslaved people disembarked ships at Richmond’s Manchester Docks, an entry point into a bondage system that built Virginia’s wealth and shaped the city’s history. Shackled together, the enslaved people trudged along a muddy trail connecting the docks to the city’s auction house, where they were sold and bought as property.
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