Officials at an Arizona church in the border town of San Luis say they have been barred by the city from feeding immigrants and others in need, a practice at the church for nearly 25 years.
Gethsemani Baptist Church, located a five-minute drive from the Arizona-Mexico border, made it its mission to serve food to anyone who needed it. Now the church has filed a federal lawsuit against the city for alleged hostility toward the church’s food ministry.
“The food ministry is the way that our church use to help people and share the gospel and the love of God,” Jose Manuel Castro, the church’s pastor, told NPR.
The suit stated that starting in 2022, the city grew hostile toward the church, citing zoning violations. The church uses a semitruck to load and unload food, which the city said violates the law. The
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