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A federal immigration raid with arrests of about 390 people at a meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa, has brought “devastation” to the community, said a Lutheran bishop at an ecumenical prayer service at a Catholic church in nearby Waterloo.

Calling for national immigration reform, Bishop Steven L. Ullestad of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America said, “The intervention by the U.S. government in my hometown of Postville has instilled fear into the hearts of U.S. citizens.” 

Debates on homosexuality may have captured the bulk of attention, but that’s not all that United Methodists did at their General Conference in Fort Worth, Texas.

They also heard addresses from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Almost 1,000 lay and ordained delegates and their committees sifted through more than 1,500 proposed resolutions.

Among other actions taken, delegates: