Love Your Immigrant Neighbor
Calendar of Public Witness and Prayer
Love Your Immigrant Neighbor Public Prayer, followed by Letter Writing to People in Detention
Love Your Immigrant Neighbor Service at St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church
Join us for an evening of hearing from directly impacted people about the ongoing crisis of deportations and detention camps right here in South Louisiana. This will be a time of solidarity, education, and hope. Southeast Dignity Not Detention representatives will host a letter writing table at the end of the service for those who would like to write letters to immigrant detainees.
Date: October 7th
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: 7100 St. Charles Avenue
Registration not required, all are welcome
Interfaith Walking Vigil
Love Your Immigrant Neighbor
Interfaith Walking Vigil
at Alexandria Family and Child Detention Center.
The Center is expected to open on Sept. 30, 2026.
This walking vigil is being held to allow space for the community to publicly lament the opening of this facility and to pray for those who will be directly impacted by it.
Please park at the Community Center at England Airpark (1718 Kegleman Blvd / Alexandria, LA). We will walk from there (about ~7-10 min) to the Detention Center, spend about 15 minutes praying in the public space across from the center, and then walk (~7-10 minutes) back to the parking lot.
This will be a peaceful, prayerful gathering on public land.
Questions: director@lainterchurch.org
Celebrating the Gifts of Immigrants Worship
Gifts of New Immigrants Sunday is a special observance in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) dedicated to honoring the contributions, cultures, and faith journeys of immigrants and refugees. Worship at 11am on Sept. 27th at First Presbyterian Church of Lafayette, LA will celebrate Gifts of New Immigrants by participating in the Love Your Immigrant Neighbor initiative.
Prayer Service & Press Conference for Katrina Immigrant Workers and their children
On the eve of the 21st Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina devastating New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we will remember the contributions of the immigrant workers who helped rebuild our city but are now being targeted by indiscriminate mass deportation policies that are tearing apart families and causing the children of Katrina immigrant workers incalculable grief and trauma. We will pray for immigrant families, our collective futures, and for Congress to pass humane immigration reform legislation that recognizes the dignity of every human life, keeps families together, and helps our country to prosper.
Speakers: A mother whose children continue to suffer from the trauma of losing their father to deportation nine years ago; Pastors from three churches suffering the loss of faithful parishioners and loving parents swept up in cruel and senseless indiscriminate mass deportations in the past 20 months, and three child therapists treating the toxic stress and psychological trauma in the children of immigrant parents lost to detention/deportation.
This event is being organized by the St. Anthony of Padua Social Justice Committee and the Love Your Immigrant Neighbor Initiative. Faith Leaders and Faith Groups are encouraged to sign-in at the event to be recognized during the program.
Alexandria Press Conference & Prayer Service
Faith leaders from across Louisiana will gather Saturday, August 22, 2026 for a press conference followed by an interfaith Service of Public Prayer & Witness.
The gathering will focus on the treatment of immigrant neighbors across Louisiana and growing concerns about immigration enforcement, detention, family separation, and due process. It also comes as plans move forward for a facility at England Airpark intended to detain immigrant families and children.
Faith leaders will call on public officials at every level to protect human dignity, family unity, due process, and the safety of immigrant communities. They will also urge leadership connected with England Airpark to cancel agreements supporting ICE detention operations and halt development of the proposed family and child detention center.
Pentecost at Historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church
1222 N. Dorgenois St
New Orleans, LA 70119
Prayer Service and Press Conference
April 29, 2026
10:30-11:15am
St. Jerome Catholic Church Parish Center
2402 33rd Street / Kenner, Louisiana 70065