John Rivera
@JohnRivera_ICJS
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Communications & Marketing Director, Institute for Islamic, Christian & Jewish Studies (ICJS) Former Balt. Sun, Catholic Relief Services, Lutheran World Relief
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Joined January 2009
This is mass murder on a scale we haven't seen in generations. Trump did this. Musk did this. The SCOTUS that allowed these cuts to congressionally mandated programs and an acquiescent @GOP did this. It's sickening.
newyorker.com
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Cardinal Robert McElroy, a Pope Leo ally who serves as archbishop of Washington, doesn’t mince words about what’s happening. “We are witnessing a full-scale governmental assault designed to produce fear among millions. “It's an instrument of terror.”
thelettersfromleo.com
Seminarians are leaving the country, priests worry they could be next, and Pope Leo XIV insists the Church must stand with its most vulnerable faithful.
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True prophetic witness in action: A Catholic priest is walking from Illinois to New York for immigrants’ rights (gift link).
washingtonpost.com
The Rev. Gary Graf, 67, is walking 800 miles from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton, Illinois, to Ellis Island to advocate for immigrants’ rights.
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Thrilled to announce my new project: my friend Susie Hayward & I have a new podcast series! AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us. https://t.co/jl8zA2vIjt
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism · 10/23/2025 · 31m
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Required reading: Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds — ProPublica
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The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And...
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#DilexiTe refers to the preferential option for the poor 12 times: 4 times by Leo himself, 4 times quoting Lat-Am bishops (Medellin, Puebla, Aparecida), 3 times quoting John Paul II, and once quoting Francis. As Leo says, it is now “well integrated” into church teaching.
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"We must not let our guard down when it comes to poverty." Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te
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The Voice of the Good Shepherd resounds in the voice of Peter. Listen to him.
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Pope Leo to Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, chair of the @USCCB Committee on Migration: The American church needs ‘to be united’ on migration https://t.co/saG4kdA2S8
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“You stand with me, and I stand with you,” Pope Leo told El Paso’s Bishop Mark Seitz, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ committee on migration, when he met him and a U.S. delegation in the Vatican today.
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No one should be forced to flee, nor exploited or mistreated because of their situation as foreigners or people in need! Human dignity must always come first!
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I express my concern about the rise of antisemitic hatred in the world, as unfortunately we saw with the terrorist attack in Manchester a few days ago.
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Seriously, thank God for @NickKristof & @nytimes. Folks, he’s seeing FACTS. Not opinions. Not left wing. Not right wing. Facts. Dead people. Dead kids. Musk & Rubio still say “no one has died”. Not true. Do not believe them. Please.
Trump said he destroyed USAID to get rid of waste. What I found in the field was that he created waste -- of taxpayer dollars and of human lives.
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I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread👇
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In my first 25 years as a reporter, I rarely had someone say for any reason that they were afraid to be interviewed. In the past decade it started happening much more. In the past week it's absolutely exploded
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The #ChildTaxCredit lifted 2.4 million children out of poverty in 2024, but making the $2,200 credit fully refundable could have lifted 1.4 million more, an opportunity Congress and President Trump missed. https://t.co/asejK6qUb2
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Child poverty remains far higher across racial and ethnic groups in 2024 than in 2021, when pandemic relief like the #ChildTaxCredit expansion cut child poverty nearly in half and narrowed inequities to record lows: https://t.co/TIUQjbjhIt
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Today’s Census report shows the economy was reasonably strong in 2024, but wide inequities persisted. If left unchanged, the harmful Republican megabill will erode much of the progress on health coverage & push poverty and inequality higher. My statement:
cbpp.org
Policy advances over the last 25 years have helped millions of people secure health coverage and lifted millions of people above the poverty line. However, if left unchanged, July’s Republican...
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FYI: this was, specifically, a faith-themed protest led by clergy from around the city. (See next tweet)
A few hundred people are gathered in the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza to protest Trump’s federal surge in D.C., especially the crackdown on the immigrant community. More than 250 arrests of immigrants have happened over the past 10 days.
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🧵Under Pope Leo, Catholics in MAGA country are defying Trump’s ICE raids. 500 sisters in Atlanta. Kansas bishops telling ICE to stand down. Texas priests accompanying migrants to court. Florida clergy forcing Mass inside Alligator Alcatraz. A state-by-state rundown below. ⬇️
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Catholic leaders are intensifying their calls for peace in Gaza, with Cardinal Zuppi’s marathon vigil joining appeals from Pope Leo XIV, Patriarch Pizzaballa and religious sisters worldwide. https://t.co/2viUfTOgL6
religionnews.com
(RNS) — The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages of the 16 Israeli children and the 12,211 Palestinian children...
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