Episcopal bishop warns clergy to prepare for 'new era of martyrdom' after ICE shooting

A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop is informing his clergy to finalize their wills and get their affairs successful bid to hole for a "new epoch of martyrdom" pursuing the shooting decease of a pistillate by a national migration agent.  

Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire voiced his remarks earlier this period astatine a vigil honoring Renee Good, who was fatally shot on Jan. 7 portion down the instrumentality of her conveyance by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

"I person told the clergy of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire that we whitethorn beryllium entering into that aforesaid witness," Hirschfeld said. "And I’ve asked them to get their affairs successful order, to marque definite they person their wills written, due to the fact that it whitethorn beryllium that present is nary longer the clip for statements, but for america with our bodies, to basal betwixt the powers of this satellite and the astir vulnerable."

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Candles pain astir a poem written by Renee Good during a vigil honoring her connected Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, successful St. Paul, Minn., extracurricular the Minnesota State Capitol.  (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

The Trump medication said Good was trying to ram an ICE cause portion disrupting migration enforcement operations successful Minneapolis. Local officials and galore Democrats person disputed that explanation, citing video footage of the fatal shooting. 

During his speech, Hirschfeld cited respective humanities clergy members who had risked their lives to support others, including Jonathan Daniels, a New Hampshire seminary pupil who was changeable and killed successful 1965 by a sheriff’s lawman successful Alabama portion shielding a young Black civilian rights activist.

Other spiritual leaders person called for Christians to support the vulnerable, including Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

"We support resisting, advocating, bearing witnesser and repairing the breach," Rowe said during a supplication earlier this week. "We support sheltering and caring for those among america who are immigrants and refugees due to the fact that they are beloved by God, and without them, we cannot afloat beryllium the church."

In Minnesota, Rt. Rev. Craig Loya urged radical not to conscionable "hatred with hatred."

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People stitchery astatine an anti-immigration enforcement rally and vigil for Renee Good, a Minneapolis pistillate who was changeable and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement serviceman successful Minnesota, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, successful Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa)

"We are going to marque similar our past ancestors, and crook the satellite upside down by mobilizing for love," helium said. "We are going to disrupt with Jesus’ hope. We are going agitate with Jesus’ love."

Opponents of the ICE raids person characterized Good arsenic a protester who was not trying to impede authorities arsenic they were conducting migration enforcement operations. 

Authorities said Good had harassed them passim that greeting and blocked a roadworthy earlier she allegedly tried to ram an agent. 

Two days aft Good was killed, Rev. Michael Neuroth, manager of the United Church of Christ's Public Policy and Advocacy, criticized ICE and the Trump medication during a gathering extracurricular the White House. 

"Citizens protesting these cruel polices are being labeled by the authorities arsenic ‘terrorists’, opening the doorway to much unit and imaginable for much nonaccomplishment of life," helium said. "The administration’s xenophobic polices and inhumane tactics spell against our values arsenic radical of religion to invited and emotion our neighbors. In the UCC we volition support pushing against these policies, extending emotion to our neighbors, and proclaiming unneurotic that "Love Knows No Borders!"

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"We're gathered due to the fact that idiosyncratic was murdered by agents of the government," the Rev. Dana Neuhauser, a United Methodist curate who sang with the group, said successful an interrogation with the National Catholic Reporter during a memorial for Good astatine the intersection wherever she was fatally shot. "But we've been showing up successful a assortment of ways due to the fact that our neighbors are being snatched. Parents being snatched successful beforehand of the school."

She added, "It's each conscionable excessively much, but my religion requires maine to amusement up."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.