Easter Sunday Worship at First Presbyterian Church of Evanston

📅 Sunday, April 5 at 10:30am
📍 1427 Chicago Ave, Evanston

Families welcome! Easter egg hunt + photo backdrop after the service.

More info: https://firstpresevanston.org/event/easter-sunday-worship/

#Evanston #EvanstonIL #Chicagoland #Easter #CommunityEvents

Not just in #Massachusetts... I'm not big on organized religion, but if you're going to practice it, at least be consistent with your principles (like the folks who set-up these displays)!

Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and LAURA BARGFELD, Updated 7:06 AM EST, December 12, 2025

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — "One baby Jesus lays in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the #LakeStreetChurch in #EvanstonIL, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by #RomanSoldiers in tactical vests labeled 'ICE.'

"In another #Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the #UrbanVillageChurch says 'Due to ICE activity in our community the Holy Family is in hiding.' And more than a thousand miles away, the Christ child went missing from a Nativity scene at St. Susanna Parish in #DedhamMa, replaced by a hand-painted sign: 'ICE was here.' "

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-dedham-chicago-ice-nativity-catholic-cbaa37f82ecab29cf07bbe48bbe6511c

#ResistICE #Resistance #ResistFascism #ICESucks