FAITH
Friday, July 13, 2018
East Oregonian
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Kids play, learn in Utah church Supreme Court
could return abortion
as family fights for asylum
debate to the states
By BRADY MCCOMBS
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — A
playground surrounded by a
large shade tree stands right
outside the First Unitarian
Church in Salt Lake City,
where Vicky Chavez and
her two young daughters
have been taking sanctuary
for the past six months.
But Chavez never allows
Yaretzi, 6, or Issabella, 11
months, to play there. They
never step foot outside the
church.
Chavez, 30, is afraid that
U.S. immigration officials
would round them up and
send them back to Hondu-
ras, where she said she fears
for their safety because of an
abusive boyfriend. Her fears
led her to seek asylum in the
United States four years ago.
Despite
immigration
judges repeatedly denying
her request, Chavez told
reporters Monday night that
she’s determined to remain
in the church and fight to
stay in the Utah, where her
parents and siblings live. In
a long-shot effort, her law-
yers are seeking relief from
a federal appeals court.
“I shall keep fighting.
I can help to be the voice
of the other mothers that
are seeking asylum from
domestic abuse,” Chavez
said, surrounded by support-
ers holding signs. “We come
to this country to feel safe
and protected.”
She said seeing other
immigrant parents separated
from their children at the
border makes her even more
reticent to return home and
face a possible split from her
daughters if she tried to seek
U.S. asylum again.
“I can’t imagine feel-
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
Vicky Chavez walks with her daughter Issabella in the First Unitarian Church, in Salt
Lake City on May 31. Chavez, a Honduran woman who came to the U.S. four years
ago seeking asylum from an abusive boyfriend, says she’ll continue taking sanctu-
ary in a Salt Lake City Unitarian church where she’s been for the past six months
with her two young daughters despite being ordered to leave and exhausting her
appeals.
ing the pain of being sep-
arated from one of my
daughters,” Chavez said in
Spanish during an interview
with The Associated Press
last month. “Sleeping in a
detention center is not easy
at all. I lived it. And I lived
it with my daughter, but not
separated.”
U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement con-
siders Chavez an immigra-
tion fugitive, spokesman
Carl Rusnok said in an email
Monday.
She entered the United
States illegally in June 2014
and was ordered deported by
a federal immigration judge
in December 2016, Rusnok
said. Chavez exhausted her
appeals on Jan. 30, he said.
That night, Chavez had
a plane ticket home to San
Come sail away
with Living Faith
HERMISTON — Activities and
biblical lessons will provide kids
with information on how Jesus res-
cues them during a program at Liv-
ing Faith Church.
The Shipwrecked: Rescued by
Jesus vacation Bible school is open
to children ages 3 through 12. They
will participate in Bible-learning
activities, sing catchy songs, play
team-building games and make
their own treats. The event is Sun-
day, July 22 through Friday, July 26
from 6-8:30 p.m. at the church, 1611
Diagonal Blvd., Hermiston. Each
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Evening - 6pm
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day winds down at 8 p.m. with the
Sail Away Send-off that gets every-
one involved in living what they’ve
learned. Friends and family are
encouraged to participate.
Also, a penny offering will be
taken each night. Part of the pro-
ceeds will go toward Hermiston’s
Family Promise mentoring program
that helps students and families in
crises. For more information or to
register, call 541-567-4486 or visit
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Vacation Bible school
offers amazing time
PENDLETON — Kids won’t
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’
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the U.S., according to infor-
mation from Church World
Service.
But they are the first
known immigrants to take
sanctuary in Utah, according
to local immigration advo-
cates and the state chapter
of the American Civil Lib-
erties Union. The practice
has been common in states
such as Arizona and Califor-
nia but unheard of in Utah,
where Mormons account
for about two-thirds of the
population.
The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints
takes a compassionate
stance on immigration and
recently said it was “deeply
troubled” by the family sep-
arations at the border but
doesn’t offer sanctuary to
immigrants.
a vacation Bible school at the Pend-
leton Baptist Church.
Kids in kindergarten through
sixth grade are invited to learn more
about Jesus through singing, crafts,
games and dramas. Also, treats will
be served.
The event is Monday, July 16
through Friday, July 20 from 5:30-
8:30 p.m. at 3202 S.W. Nye Ave.,
Pendleton. In addition, there are lim-
ited spots available for younger kids,
who must pre-register.
For more information or to regis-
ter kids who are not yet in kindergar-
ten, call 541-276-7590, visit www.
pendletonbaptist.com or search
Facebook for “Pendleton Baptist
Awana Club.”
by people who do not
feel the same way about
women and their bodies
that I would say most peo-
ple in this state feel,” said
Massachusetts state Senate
President Harriette Chan-
dler, a Democrat.
Seventeen
states
already have laws that
could be used to restrict
the legal status of abortions
if Roe is overturned or
severely limited. Of those,
Massachusetts is one of
10 states that still have
pre-Roe abortion bans on
the books, according to
the Guttmacher Institute,
a national research group
that supports abortion
rights.
The institute says nine
other states have laws spe-
cifically protecting abor-
tion rights.
Lawmakers in some
Republican-led
states
have been attempting for
decades to chip away at
the Roe ruling by restrict-
ing when, where and how
abortions can be provided.
Kavanaugh’s appointment
could lead to a surge in
such measures.
“The time is right. We
need to act on it,” said Mis-
souri Rep. Mike Moon.
AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise
Protesters organized by Planned Parenthood
demonstrate at the state Capitol in Nashville, Tenn.
First Christian Church
offers adventure
HERMISTON — All aboard, kids
ages 5 through fifth grade are invited
to participate in Ark Adventure.
The vacation Bible school is lim-
ited to 100 participants, so those
interested in attending are encour-
aged to register early. The ses-
sions are Monday, July 23 through
Thursday, July 26 at 5:30 p.m. at
the church, 775 W. Highland Ave.,
Hermiston. A light meal will be pro-
vided each evening. There is no reg-
istration fee.
For more information or to regis-
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Pedro Sula, Honduras. But
instead she accepted an offer
of sanctuary from the First
Unitarian Church.
She and her daughters
sleep in a converted Sunday
school room and spend most
of their time in another room
with a TV, easel and other
games. Yaretzi, the 6-year-
old, receives piano classes
in the chapel, and they dance
and run in an open room
with wood floors.
Baby Issabella learned
to walk in the church and
celebrated her first birth-
day early there this month.
Yaretzi gets tutored instead
of attending school.
“I feel sad because I can’t
give my daughter a normal
life,” Chavez said.
The family is among 44
people taking sanctuary in
BOSTON (AP) —
Anticipating
renewed
fights over abortion, some
governors and state law-
makers already are search-
ing for ways to enhance or
dismantle the right in their
constitutions and laws.
President
Donald
Trump’s nomination of
Judge Brett Kavanaugh to
the U.S. Supreme Court
has raised the possibility
that a conservative court
majority could weaken or
overturn the 1973 Roe v.
Wade ruling, which cre-
ated a nationwide right to
abortion. That could fan
an already raging battle
in states over what should
and should not be legal.
While a complete rever-
sal of Roe remains a long-
shot, some Democratic
elected officials want to
enact new abortion pro-
tections and repeal dor-
mant laws that criminal-
ize abortion. While those
laws have been ignored
for decades, some stretch-
ing back to the 19th cen-
tury, Democrats want to
erase them so they cannot
be revived in the future.
“As long as they are
enshrined in statute, they
can be picked up and used
Loving People
108 S. Main • 276-9569
Special Guest Speaker
Pastor Jeff Geesey
Worship Service: 10:30am
Sunday School: 9:30am
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541-276-7590
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Sunday Bible Classes 9:45 AM
Sunday Youth Group 6:00 PM
Mon. Community Women’s Study
9:30 AM & 6 PM
Awana Kids Club (K-6th grade)
Wed Men’s Study 6 PM
MOPS meeting the 1st Thur of the Month 6 PM
The Salvation Army
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Sunday Worship Service
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship Service
Wednesday Bible Study
5:30 Family Fellowship Meal • 6:00 Bible Study
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