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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 22h

Today's lesson from Broadview: Seems that churches can cross the line to feed state police but not to give Communion to the detained. (Salvation Army is a church.)

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

SewingSue @sewingsue.bsky.social · 1d

At the ice detention center in Broadview, Illinois on October 11. Chris are asking for admission to the detention center to minister to the detains to give them communion and pray with them. Father Dan Haetnett is leaving us in prayer.

Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Livestream is still live, will likely be archived:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YksI...

LIVE: Chicago ICE Protest Chicago, IL

YouTube video by Mercado Media

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like blessings after ICE bars entry?
bsky.app/profile/unra...

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Request denied/unanswered.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a good sermon. Please ping me if you've got more than this snippet.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Music now.

Grim reminder: people held inside the detention center have reported it's impossible to hear much coming from outside.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Esther Yoon-Ji Kang of WBEZ is on site, reporting through audio, text, and photos.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, a day after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Scenes from today's (Saturday's) Eucharistic procession to the Broadview ICE facility (different from yesterday's Communion service outside the facility!) 🧵 1/

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Reposted by Ted Olsen

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not talking about the kind of thing you can photograph or advertise, though goodness knows religious imagery has been a major part of the wave of protest and dissent we’re seeing at the moment. It’s just this background thing that runs alongside everything else that’s going on.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Both the article AND thread are worth a read.

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 1d

Went to church and a bunch of other places with Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson as she navigates an intense chapter in the life of the village and the country as a whole.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/r...

Refusing ‘a position of fear,’ Broadview’s mayor deals with ICE and a national spotlight

Broadview, the 2.2 square-mile, majority-Black village, where Katrina Thompson is in her third term as mayor, has become the locus of what she sees as both a spiritual fight and a political battle.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

ABC7 news report from yesterday (on Instagram, via @monicacarmean.com).
www.instagram.com/reel/DPosLGm...
I'll try to roundup coverage of today's Catholic-led Communion service at Broadview in a separate thread. (The march from St. Eulalia's in Maywood just recently kicked off.)

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

WOW: 1,300-year-old Byzantine bread! (Not nec. Communion loaf)
“With our gratitude to the Blessed Jesus.”
(This is one of the better stories; other coverage has been awful, calling Jesus the sower a "fertility symbol" and inscription "confirming the Bible.")
greekreporter.com/2025/10/10/b...

1,300-Year-Old Byzantine Bread With Greek Inscription Unearthed in Turkey - GreekReporter.com

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered Byzantine-era bread with a Greek inscription and image of Christ, revealing deep Hellenic-Christian roots.

greekreporter.com

Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, David! Hadn't seen any of these yet except the NPR one on the pirate flag.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

This was really well done. Very informative and revealing. And what a kicker! Thank you.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Reported chant from today's protest after the Communion service:

Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 1d

Love your neighbors, love your God, save your soul and quit your job was my favorite!

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed.

Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 1d

Still can’t get over how based “the body of Christ will be free” is as a protest chant. I mean it has LAYERS.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe? But I think the organizers have that less in mind than that Communion proclaims the reality of the suffering wrought by the powers of death and oppression, the ultimate defeat of those powers, and the gift of joining together both with the suffering and "in the triumph song of life."

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of photos (and good reporting) in this Presbyterian Outlook story:

Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago pastors confront escalating violence at ICE detention facility

Chicago Presbyterian pastors report pepper spray, rubber bullets and escalating force at ICE’s Broadview facility. Faith leaders demand accountability.

Chicago pastors confront escalating violence at ICE detention facility

Chicago Presbyterian pastors report pepper spray, rubber bullets and escalating force at ICE’s Broadview facility. Faith leaders demand accountability.

pres-outlook.org

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Instagram post from yesterday by David Black, the Presbyterian Church (USA) minister who went viral for being repeatedly targeted by ICE with chemical munitions. www.instagram.com/p/DPnOQIODFP4/

Tomorrow morning, Christian clergy will be holding a communion service in front of the ICE Detention center in Broadview, IL. In our liturgies, we say that “they will come from north and south, east and west to sit together at the table in the Kingdom of God.” The communion table is a welcome table. All are invited.

A nation which prohibits the movement of the peoples to gather at that table is by definition obstructing our religious practice and infringing on our right to practice our Christian faith freely.

All are invited to join in this ancient ritual, which acknowledges the violence which an empire visited upon our Lord Jesus Christ. Yet his death and resurrection inaugurated the world we yearn for. The truth is that the Beloved Community is here—I see it gathering outside Broadview week after week to demand and exhort the release of our captive neighbors and their restoration to our communities, so that the Welcome Table of this Eucharist might be made whole. I hope you will join us.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

RNS reporter: bsky.app/profile/jack...

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Brendan Gutenschwager @bgonthescene.bsky.social · 2d

A few demonstrators attempt to bring communion to detainees at the Broadview ICE facility, and are stopped by police

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

(This is the only appropriate coexistence of Communion and Malört in a post...)

Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 2d

If anyone sees a lady in a cat onesie taking communion at Broadview on the news tonight lmk! (It’s me. I was in a cat onesie.) The Rev said: “this is the cup of heaven, poured out for you. Nice Malört shirt.”

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