A coalition of Catholic leaders, including the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and immigration groups will gather in Newark on Wednesday to call on the Trump administration and Congress to stop detention of children and families.

Organizers said 200 to 250 people will assemble for prayer at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church Newark Abbey, 520 Martin Luther King Blvd. From there, they will walk downtown to the ICE Office at the Peter Rodino Federal Building on Broad Street.

Joseph Fleming, director of Catholic organizing with Faith In Action, which is a national grass roots organization in Washington, D.C., said Cardinal Joseph Tobin of the Archdiocese of Newark will bless people who plan to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and risk arrest to draw attention to the issue.

Catholic leaders, clergy and long-time advocates based in New Jersey as well as family members who have been detained and separated will also deliver personal testimonies.

“Part of the goal of this campaign is to awaken the Catholic community more fully to the brutality that is unfolding through both the rhetoric and the policies of this administration,’’ Fleming said. “We’re hoping that we begin to create a wave across the country of similar expression of what we would call prophetic opposition to what is happening and to really try to change the course of where we are going as as a country in terms of our treatment of migrants and refugees.''

The Wednesday campaign builds on momentum from a protest in July in Washington, D.C. where 70 Catholic leaders and supporters were arrested at the Russell Rotunda. Newark was chosen for Wednesday’s campaign because of interest from people in this area who were in Washington, D.C.

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