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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Britanny Hamama
The one thing that has been getting me and my family through this all has been the power of prayer.
Members of the local Chaldean community gather outside the Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building on June 16 to protest the arrest and detention of more than 100 Chaldean Christians from the Detroit area. (CNS photo/Dan Meloy, The Michigan Catholic)
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Dan Meloy - Catholic News Service
Organizers said those who were detained had no prior warning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be arresting them the morning of June 11.
Chaldean-Americans protest on June 12 outside Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield, Mich., after dozens of Chaldean Christians were arrested by federal immigration officials over the weekend of June 10 and 11 in the Detroit metropolitan area. (CNS photo/Rebecca Cook, Reuters) 
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Lauren Markoe - Religion News Service
Some Chaldeans and their supporters are wondering why more Christian Americans—their co-religionists—are not speaking out against the impending deportation of hundreds of them from the U.S. to Iraq.
U.S. President Donald Trump announces his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement at the White House in Washington on June 1. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
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Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press
The Trump administration has canceled the immigration program intended to protect parents of U.S. citizens from deportation.
Refugees wait to see Pope Francis at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, in this April 16, 2016, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Natalie Hoefer - Catholic News Service
The chalice was handcrafted primarily with wood from a refugee boat that landed upon the beaches of Lampedusa.
Syriac Bishop Barnaba Yousif Habash of Newark, N.J., speaks June 14 during the opening sesson of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual spring assembly in Indianapolis. (CNS photo/Natalie Hoefer, The Criterion)
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Michael J. O’Loughlin
On the same day the bishops decided to establish a permanent committee on religious liberty, they agreed to extend the work of an ad hoc committee on immigration.