Church nativity depicts Jesus, Mary and Joseph as family separated at border. “What if this family sought refuge in our country today?” the Southern California church said in a Facebook post.
In a statement posted by the minister, Karen Clark Ristine, the church said that after fleeing a tyrant king, Jesus, Mary and Joseph became “the most well-known refugee family in the world.”
“What if this family sought refuge in our country today?” the church said. “Imagine Joseph and Mary separated at the border and Jesus no older than two taken from his mother and placed behind the fences of a Border Patrol detention center.”
Inside the church, the family is reunited in a separate nativity scene, the statement said.
Ristine could not be reached for comment Sunday. Thousands of children, many of them from Central America, were separated from their families at the United States’ southern border after the Trump administration began criminally prosecuting every adult who entered the country illegally.