San Antonio https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/san-antonio/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:45:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 San Antonio https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/san-antonio/ 32 32 16720591 Quakers minute on the child camps https://www.quakerranter.org/san-antonio-quakers-minute-on-child-separations/ https://www.quakerranter.org/san-antonio-quakers-minute-on-child-separations/#respond Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:30:38 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61010 San Antonio Quakers’ minute on child separations

Friends Meeting of San Antonio finds the policy of the present administration of separating children from their families at the border to be shameful and contrary to American values. Further, using the Gospel to claim that “God has ordained” such actions is appalling to us as a people of faith.

A few years ago Friends Journal ran an article on the border humanitarian crisis, co-written by one of San Antonio’s clerks, so we’ve added this weekend’s statement to the article for context.


Convergence

Convergence

UPDATE June 2018: “In response to the continuing administration policy of separating asylum-seeking parents from their children, as…
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