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Child Jesus Tied Up in Church Nativity Manger
Printed December 4, 2025 6:59 AM PST
If Jesus involves the U.S., he’d higher have a sound visa … no less than that is the concern of an Illinois church that is put in a controversial Nativity scene depicting the newborn messiah zip-tied in a manger.
Lake Road Church of Evanston — simply north of Chicago — reimagined the Nativity with masked centurions carrying inexperienced vests labeled “ICE” surrounding the Holy Household. Mom Mary and Joseph put on respirator masks to protect themselves from tear fuel, in accordance with the church.
In a Fb put up, the church defined the scene is supposed to attract “direct parallels between the Holy Household’s refugee expertise and modern immigration detention practices.” The e book of Matthew claims Jesus and his dad and mom fled to Egypt with a view to escape King Herod’s order that each boy in Bethlehem underneath 2 be executed.
And never for nothing … Bethlehem does reside within the West Financial institution, which immediately would make him Palestinian.
“This set up will not be refined as a result of the disaster it addresses will not be summary,” the church wrote. “We hope viewers will be part of the dialog about what sanctuary means when households fleeing violence are met with separation, detention, and dehumanization.”
They continued … “We additional hope that dialog will transfer folks to motion, no matter religion or philosophical background.”
This is not the primary time Lake Road Church has staged a themed Nativity scene. In accordance with the Chicago Tribune, the home of worship organized one exhibiting Child Jesus caught amid rubble in honor of the civilians trapped within the conflict in Gaza.
The Chicago Solar-Occasions reported a senior minister at Lake Road Church — Rev. Michael Woolf — was arrested final month at an ICE protest exterior of a deportation processing facility in Broadview, Illinois.
