Minnesota pastor condemns anti-ICE agitators who interrupted service: ‘Shameful and unlawful’

The Minnesota religion wherever anti-ICE agitators disrupted a Sunday work and shouted down parishioners, called connected leaders to support places of worship portion criticizing the behaviour of those progressive during the chaotic disruption. 

The Cities Church successful St. Paul released a connection Tuesday wherever it addressed Sunday's events, which was captured connected video and has gone viral since, that was sparked by claims that its pastor worked with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

The agitators began shouting anti-ICE slogans during the religion work and berated churchgoers for not doing capable to situation national migration officers carrying retired raids targeting amerciable migrant criminals successful the region. 

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Anti-ICE agitators targeted the Cities Church successful Minneapolis connected Sunday, shouting down churchgoers successful the mediate of services. Cities Church pastor  Jonathan Parnell condemned the agitators successful a connection connected Tuesday. (Facebook/DawokeFarmer2)

"They accosted members of our congregation, frightened children, and created a country marked by intimidation and threat," Jonathan Parnell, the pastor whose work was interrupted, said successful a connection posted to the church's website. "Such behaviour is shameful, unlawful, and volition not beryllium tolerated."

"Invading a religion work to disrupt the worship of Jesus — oregon immoderate different enactment of worship — is protected by neither the Christian Scriptures nor the laws of this nation," helium added. 

Parnell said the religion welcomes respectful dialog astir existent issues but that "the realness of Jesus" provides "the lone last answers to the world’s astir analyzable and intractable problems."

In 1 video, an anti-ICE agitator is seen walking astir the religion service, asserting that "all these unreal Christians, each these comfy White people… are surviving lavish, comfy lives, portion children are dragged into attraction camps."

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Cities Church is seen successful St. Paul, Minn. wherever anti-ICE agitators unopen down a work claiming the pastor was besides moving arsenic an ICE agent, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 successful St. Paul, Minn.  (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

"You are a fake Christian," helium said. "You're sinners." 

Christian leaders person condemned the incidental and person demanded enactment from the government. The Trump medication has vowed to look into the matter. 

"I conscionable spoke to the Pastor successful Minnesota whose religion was targeted. Attacks against instrumentality enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the afloat unit of national law," Attorney General Pam Bondi said successful a statement.

"If authorities leaders garbage to enactment responsibly to forestall lawlessness, this Department of Justice volition stay mobilized to prosecute national crimes and guarantee that the regularisation of instrumentality prevails," she added.

Parnell said the religion was evaluating its adjacent steps with ineligible counsel. 

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"Church buildings are meant to beryllium places of bid and solace, wherever worshipers tin perceive and unrecorded retired this message," helium said. "We truthful telephone connected local, state, and nationalist leaders to support this cardinal right."