上周，一名法官下令国土安全部释放爱德华·纳尔旺巴牧师，这位乌干达籍神父在被送往移民拘留中心前已在科罗拉多州生活了25年多，被拘留了13个月。他在拘留期间健康状况恶化，以至于现在必须依靠轮椅。
Last week a judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to release the Rev. Edward Nalwamba, a Ugandan priest who had lived in Colorado for more than 25 years before being sent to an immigrant detention center 13 months ago.
法庭下令释放他后，为移民和海关执法局运营该拘留中心的私营监狱公司据报拒绝为纳尔旺巴提供轮椅，因此同监犯人不得不亲自把他从设施里抬出去。几天前，一名联邦法官阻止国土安全部实施一系列实地行动，这些行动旨在九个州调查所谓的选民欺诈，是更大力度推动识别非公民选民的一部分。《纽约时报》关于这些事态发展的报道指出：[阿拉塞利·马丁内斯-奥尔金法官] 是由约瑟夫·R·拜登总统任命的，她写道，这些行动的范围也引发了对选民恐吓的担忧。
The priest’s health deteriorated during his detention to the point that he now relies on a wheelchair. After a court set him free, the private prison company that operates the detention center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly wouldn’t provide Nalwamba with a wheelchair, so fellow detainees literally carried him from the facility Days earlier, a federal judge blocked DHS from carrying out a variety of field operations focused on uncovering alleged voter fraud in nine states as part of a broader push to identify noncitizen voters. The New York Times report
她指出，根据机构备忘录，国土安全部“监视、秘密渗透并审讯从事选民动员工作的非营利组织和教会的工作人员”，截至7月已将近150个此类非营利组织列为目标。
on the developments noted:
换句话说，特朗普政府被发现曾在礼拜场所内进行秘密监视，此外还对教会工作人员进行审讯。
[Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguin], who was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., wrote that the scope of the operations also raised concerns about voter intimidation.
这并非共和党政府首次被发现监视教堂。唐纳德·特朗普第二个任期开始几个月后，总统团队成立了一个特别工作组，据白宫称，该工作组旨在根除联邦政府内部的“反基督教偏见”。在2025年4月的一次启动仪式上，时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪首先抨击乔·拜登，称拜登“滥用并针对基督徒”。这种诽谤毫无根据。更甚的是，当该特别工作组试图用一份冗长的书面报告来加强其指控时，针对前总统及其民主党政府的指控大多不攻自破。
She noted that according to agency memos, the Homeland Security Department “surveils, covertly infiltrates and interrogates the staff of nonprofits and churches conducting voter engagement” and had targeted nearly 150 such nonprofit groups as of July. The Trump administration, in other words, was found to have conducted covert surveillance inside houses of worship, in addition to conducting interrogations of the churches’ staff. This was not the first time the Republican administration was found to have spied on churches A few months into Donald Trump’s second term, the president’s team launched a task force that was intended, according to the White House, to eradicate “anti-Christian bias” within the federal government. At a launch event in April 2025, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi began by attacking Joe Biden, whom Bondi said had“abused and targeted Christians.”The slander was baseless.
但特朗普团队开始致力于说服美国人，认为拜登及其白宫“滥用并针对基督徒”已超过一年，而如今，正是现任总统及其共和党政府继续与信仰团体发生冲突——甚至包括对教堂的监视。
What’s more, when the task force tried to bolster its accusations with a lengthy written report, the allegations against the former president and his Democratic administration largely fell apart But more than a year after Team Trump started making a concerted effort to convince Americans that Biden and his White House “abused and targeted Christians,” it’s the incumbent president and his Republican administration that continue to clash with faith communities — up to and including surveillance of churches.
很难不想起7月的那起事件：ICE特工将一名身着修女服、在人行道上前往参加主日弥撒的修女带走（在国会议员们的反对声浪下，她被释放出联邦拘留所），但此类事件不断出现。
It’s hard not to forget the incident from July, when ICE agents hauled off a nun who was wearing her habit and walking down a public sidewalk en route to Sunday Mass (she was released from federal detention after a backlash from members of Congress), but such examples keep cropping up.
确实，围绕特朗普团队起诉新墨西哥州一家天主教教区，试图征收14英亩土地用于修建额外边境屏障；五角大楼缩减官方认可宗教名单，特朗普与教皇利奥十四世发生冲突；政府削减天主教慈善机构资金；白宫针对玛丽安·埃德加·布德牧师发起攻击，原因是她为边缘群体辩护；以及联邦特工用胡椒球射击宗教领袖等事件，都引发了相关争议。
Indeed, there have been related controversies surrounding Team Trump suing a Catholic diocese in New Mexico to seize 14 acres of land for additional border barriers; the Pentagon’s narrowed list of officially recognized religions Trump picking fights with Pope Leo XIV; the administration stripping funding from Catholic charities; a White House offensive against the Rev.
如果这些事件发生在民主党政府执政期间，共和党人和保守派媒体是否会发起关于“民主党对宗教的战争”的歇斯底里的运动，这还有疑问吗？本文首发于《特朗普政府不断与信仰团体发生冲突》MS NOW
Mariann Edgar Budde for her defense of marginalized communities; and instances in which federal agents have shot faith leaders with pepper balls If these developments had unfolded during a Democratic administration, is there any doubt Republicans and conservative media outlets would have launched hysterical campaigns about the “Democratic war on religion”? The post The Trump administration keeps clashing with faith communities MS NOW