Athens area faith organizations have joined together to host a March of Faith in Resistance to Mass Deportation on Sunday, September 21st. Marchers will gather at 595 Prince Avenue (across the street from the School District) at 2 pm and, at around 2:30, march to the federal courthouse (downtown post office) where brief remarks will be given, and then march back to the starting point.

“Religious leaders will speak on moral calls to support immigrant neighbors, to oppose mass deportation, and to end family separation,” commented Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens and co-chair of the Interfaith Clergy Partnership of Greater Athens (ICPGA), which voted unanimously to cosponsor and participate in the march.

“This is not a political event, it is an expression of our faith,” said Greg Davis, chair of the Interfaith Sanctuary Coalition (ISC), cosponsor of the march. “We are called to stand in moral opposition to the repression and intimidation of our immigrant friends and neighbors.”