Tag: children

The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.

“Am I pleased that the 12 children and their coach in Thailand were rescued? Of course I am. I just wish that an equivalent effort was being made to rescue each of the 50,000 children we will kill today, tomorrow, the next day and the day after that….”

"We speak with Dr. Dana Sinopoli, a psychologist who penned an open letter condemning the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from their parents at the border."

These children deserve our tears, too.

Each one of us has an important choice. We can acknowledge the painful truth that we inflict enormous violence on our children and respond powerfully to that truth. Or we can keep deluding ourselves and continue to observe, powerlessly, as the violence in our world proliferates until human beings are extinct.

"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them."

"So it might be many months, and in some cases maybe over a year ... before parents before they even get a chance of sponsoring and seeing their children again."

The time has come for the American public to make clear that resistance to the emerging fascism in the United States is not an option.

"So what I saw was a crisis continuing. Not in the making – a crisis continuing."

Scripture commands Christians to help the poor, to recognize the importance of the family, and to criticize unjust laws.