EPISCOPALIANS JOIN MARCH FOR IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS
The Episcopal
Diocese of Los Angeles made itself known at Monday's "Day of Action”
march to support comprehensive immigration reform. More than 200
Episcopalians joined the thousands of people who walked from Olvera
Street to the Downtown Federal Building. Bishop Assistant Sergio
Carranza carried the leading banner at the front of the procession,
flanked by two 10-year-old vested acolytes carrying signs that read
"We are all God's Children."
Ernesto Medina,
provost of the Cathedral Center, offered a bilingual blessing of the
procession as it departed La Placita Church. According to Medina,
Episcopalians met at the entrance of Union Station 15 minutes before
the event began, having arrived on most forms of public
transportation, including two trainloads on the Gold Line.
Church members
carried signs that called for pathways to citizenship, for the
reunification of immigrant families, for protection of human rights
and workers’ rights, and, echoing the Church’s baptismal covenant,
for “the dignity of every human being.”
