MOMENTS: Pope Leo Shares Lunch With Vulnerable People, Says He Came With 'Hunger for Justice'

 

Street Church Speaking in Tongues outside of Delaney Hall ICE detention facility 6.7.26

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Louise Scott-Rountree Councilmember At-Large, City of Newark   

Newark's Councilwoman At Large, Reverend Louise Scott-Rountree Speaks

How a Catholic nun provides 'radical hospitality' outside Delaney Hall detention center

How a Catholic nun provides 'radical hospitality' outside Delaney Hall detention center

RNS

May 27, 2026

Sister Susan Francois, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, has been showing up at Delaney Hall, the immigrant detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, since May 2025. In late May 2026, detainees inside Delaney Hall started a hunger and labor strike, citing inhumane conditions at the Newark, New Jersey immigration detention center. Days later, protests intensified outside its gates. Francois documents her work along the way. This is a day in her life.

“Faith on the Immigration Frontline” is an RNS short-form documentary series about clergy and religious community members putting their faith to work on the front lines of America's immigration crisis. Each episode follows a single subject as they navigate detention, border enforcement and the human stakes of immigration policy — through pastoral care, faith and conscience. 

Produced by Fiona Murphy

Music by Kelly Ribiat

Mike Pence stokes backlash for calling Pope Francis 'Holy Father,' posting anti-Trump op-ed

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter
Monday, March 03, 2025

Pope Francis speaks with former Vice President Mike Pence during a private audience at the Vatican, Jan. 24, 2020. | ALESSANDRO DI MEO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Former Vice President Mike Pence drew criticism over the weekend for a Friday X post in which he referred to Pope Francis as "the Holy Father," prompting some to accuse him of affirming Roman Catholicism despite being an outspoken Evangelical Protestant.

"One of my greatest honors as Vice President was the hour I spent with Pope Francis at the Vatican in January 2020," Pence tweeted. "[Karen Pence] and I join Catholics around the world Praying for this humble and godly man. God Bless the Holy Father."

Pope Francis remains at Rome's Gemelli Hospital recovering from double pneumonia. According to the Vatican, he remained in stable condition and did not require any mechanical ventilation Sunday, though he suffered two episodes of "acute respiratory failure" on Monday.

Pence was raised Roman Catholic but later left the Catholic Church to become an Evangelical when he was in college, according to a profile in The New York Times.

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About Ganoune Diop's Claim that The GC Never Promoted the C-19 Jab . . .

September 23, 2024 Fulcrum7 Staff

In June of this year, Ganoune Diop (Religious Liberty Director of the General Conference) experienced a sudden attack of myocarditis while in Europe.

He was flown back to the US where he spent over 50-days in Johns Hopkins hospital. He was placed in a coma and near death. After 8 weeks he was released from the hospital. Two weeks ago he was in Nairobi, where he spoke at the Newlife SDA church there.

After the church service, there was a religious liberty panel discussion, of which Diop was one of four participants. During the panel discussion, Diop stated that the General Conference / SDA Church never promoted the C-19 vaccine. See it for yourself at 40:36.

 “The GC (Seventh-day Adventist Church General Conference) Never Promoted the Vaccine.”

True or false witness?

In this video, Mark Finley said that Seventh-day Adventist members who prefer natural immunity could be doing so for selfish reasons. 20:30

Pope asks world leaders for clemency for prisoners in run-up to Christmas

Pope Francis washes the feet of prison inmates during Holy Thursday Mass (ANSA)
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Pope Francis writes a letter to Heads of State asking them to grant a pardon to prison inmates who are "are held to be eligible to benefit from such a provision."



By Salvatore Cernuzio

Pope Francis has asked for a "gesture of clemency" for prison inmates in the run-up to Christmas.

In a letter addressed to all Heads of State, he invites them to make a symbolic gesture "towards our brothers and sisters who are deprived of their liberty and who are held eligible to benefit from such a provision".

“So that this time marked by tensions, injustice and conflicts may be opened to the grace that comes from the Lord.”

This is the motivation reported in a statement issued on Monday by the Director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni.
Washing the feet of prisoners: "God always forgives"

The request for clemency for prisoners has distant roots that go back to the Great Jubilee Year 2000 when St. Pope John Paul II asked the world's rulers for a pardon for prisoners in the 11-page document for the Jubilee in Prisons.

It was late June, a little over a week later, when on 9 July Pope John Paul II visited Rome's Regina Coeli prison as part of the Jubilee of Prisoners, and in the name of Jesus who was "imprisoned, mocked, judged and condemned", asked "the competent authorities" for a reduction of the sentence to allow prisoners to build a new life once out of prison.

This request was reiterated again on 14 November 2002 to senators and deputies he met during his visit to the Italian Parliament.
The 2016 Jubilee for Prisoners

Following in his predecessor's footsteps, Pope Francis has shown his closeness to prison inmates in the course of many of his apostolic visits and in other instances, in particular during the Holy Thursday ceremony of the washing of the feet.

During the 2016 Holy Year of Mercy, on the occasion of the Jubilee of Prisoners on 6 November, during the Angelus after Mass in St. Peter's Basilica with prisoners, he urged governments to grant them "an act of clemency".

On that occasion, Pope Francis issued an appeal “in favour of improving the living conditions in prisons throughout the world, that the human dignity of detainees be fully respected.“

He also reflected on "the need for a criminal justice system that is not exclusively punitive, but open to hope and the prospect of reintegrating the offender into society.“

“In a special way, I submit for the consideration of the competent civil authorities of every country the possibility that, in this Holy Year of Mercy, an act of clemency be carried out for those prisoners who are held to be eligible to benefit from such a provision.”

Today, as we near Christmas, he issues a similar invitation.

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