'We are all God's children': Clergy hold vigil against planned Oakwood ICE facility, call it un-Christlike - Gainesville Times

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'We are all God's children': Clergy hold vigil against planned Oakwood ICE facility, call it un-Christlike

A small group gathers Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, across from the proposed site of the ICE detention center in Oakwood for a brief prayer vigil for Lent. - photo by Scott Rogers

02232026 PRAYER 1.jpg — A small group gathers Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, across from the proposed site of the ICE detention center in Oakwood for a brief prayer vigil for Lent. - photo by Scott Rogers

About 25 local clergy and residents gathered Sunday across from a warehouse slated to become an ICE detention center in Oakwood — not to protest but to pray.