Rabbi Linda Holtzman of the Jewish community group, Tikkun Olam Chavurah, in her West Mount Airy home on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. The Jewish group and a South Philly church are part of the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia that will be offering sanctuary to an undocumented immigrant (and his/her family) who is defying a federal deportation order and refusing to leave the country. ( Photo by Yong Kim / Daily News Staff Photographer)
By Julie Shaw (Philly Daily News)
A SOUTH Philadelphia church and a Mount Airy Jewish community group will offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants as part of a nationwide civil act of disobedience in response to President Obama’s inaction on immigration reform.
Each congregation will open its doors to house an undocumented immigrant – who will be defying a federal deportation order – and his or her family.
This act of civil disobedience is part of a National Day of Action, said Peter Pedemonti, director of the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, which will hold a news conference today at the Philadelphia Praise Center, on McKean Street near 17th.
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