The Fellowship Congregational Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma has erected a chain-link fence around its nativity scene this winter in protest of the treatment of migrants seeking refuge in the U.S., The New York Times reports.
Although the fence and scene have been on display since the beginning of December, it didn’t attract much notice until after the church changed its marquee to read, “the Holy Family was a migrant family.”
Pastor Chris Moore told Tulsa World on Wednesday that Joseph fled to Egypt after having dream warning him of King Herod and his plan to kill Jesus as an infant.
“An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, ‘Arise, take the young child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him,’” reads Matthew 2:13-14 in the New King James Version of the Bible.
“When he arose, he took the young child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt.”
“What if Egypt had the same policies that we have now?” Moore asked. “Would they have been turned away? Would they have been separated?”
The pastor said while he doesn’t support “open borders,” he does oppose the treatment migrants, who are “fleeing the same kinds of oppression and threats to their safety that the holy family was fleeing,” have received from President Donald Trump’s administration.
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