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Agitators opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement made quite a ruckus when they invaded a Minnesota church in the middle of a service last month, but they weren’t the first to disrupt Americans during worship.

The Justice Department has charged nine people in connection with the interruption of a service at Cities Church in St. Paul last month, notably including former CNN host Don Lemon. According to the indictment, the agitators coopted the service, chanting activist slogans and preventing worshippers from leaving the church building.

The agitators said they targeted Cities Church because one of the church’s pastors works with ICE. Now, they face charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (which also protects houses of worship), and the Ku Klux Klan Act (which criminalizes attempts to interfere with Americans’ constitutional rights).

The Cities Church invasion drew nationwide attention, yet this did not represent the first time agitators disrupted a church service.

Examples in American History

Church disruptions trace back to colonial America, when Quakers disrupted the services of churches they considered illegitimate, according to the National Catholic Reporter.

The Reporter cites examples of black Christians protesting segregation and asserting their equal humanity by staging “kneel-ins” at segregated churches in the 1960s. These “kneel-ins,” however, arguably represent a different kind of disruption from the shouting and blocking at Cities Church.

In 1969, James Forman delivered his “Black Manifesto” at Riverside Church in New York, demanding racial reparations from white people and causing an uproar. Even this disruption does not quite echo Cities Church, because Forman had secured the pastor’s approval before reading the manifesto.

Perhaps the most analogous historical example came in 1989, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, also known as ACT UP, disrupted Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Agitators shouted, lay down in the aisles, and desecrated a Communion host. They faced minor charges under state law.

The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church has become infamous for protesting at various events, even at the funerals of fallen soldiers. Yet these protesters remained outside sanctuaries, and the Supreme Court has upheld their right to protest.

CatholicVote, an organization that tracks violence against churches, condemned church invasions.

“The right to protest is real, but so is the right to worship in peace,” Logan Church, the group’s director of political operations, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday.

“Disrupting a Mass isn’t courageous activism, it’s intimidation,” he added. “Churches are sacred spaces, and targeting people in the middle of prayer crosses a basic moral line that no decent society should tolerate. We continue to work with state legislatures in support of their efforts to increase penalties against sacrilege like this.”

Here are seven examples of agitators disrupting church services in recent years. Most of the disruptions have involved left-leaning activists, particularly on abortion, but some on the conservative side have also disrupted services.

1. ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Invasion

On May 8, 2022, pro-abortion activists dressed as characters from the Hulu show “The Handmaid’s Tale” interrupted Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Fox News reported.

The interruption came on the first Sunday following Politico’s publication of the leaked Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case in which the court overturned the abortion precedent Roe v. Wade (1973).

The Hulu show, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, presents a dystopia where conservative Christians take away women’s rights and systematically rape fertile women in order to produce children. Pro-abortion activists have suggested that if conservatives outlaw abortion, it will lead to more attacks on women’s rights.

2. Lakewood Church

Pro-abortion agitators interrupted Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, on June 5, 2022, EWTN News reported. Police detained the agitators and warned that they would face charges if they returned to the church.

One of the agitators took off her shirt, and shouted expletives, saying, “It’s my body, my f—ing choice,” video of the incident shows.

3. St. Veronica’s Church

A nearly naked female agitator and two others shouted pro-abortion slogans during Mass at St. Veronica’s Church in Eastpointe, Michigan, on June 12, 2022, The Christian Post reported. The woman had dark green leaves covering her private parts and she chanted, “abortion without apology.”

4. St. Joseph Parish, Chicago

Two days after the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs ruling, abortion agitators disrupted St. Joseph Parish in Chicago, the National Catholic Register reported.

An agitator interrupted the 11 a.m. Mass on June 26, 2022, reading a statement from the Archbishop of Chicago that celebrated Dobbs. One of the agitators held a sign reading, “The Catholic Church has blood on its hands.”

Two of the agitators who identified themselves as part of the disturbance wrote a follow-up post titled “No Peaceful Mass in the Anti-Abortion Church.” They condemned what they called the church’s “long-standing commitment to colonial and patriarchal power structures,” and its opposition to the LGBTQ agenda.

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5. Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Pro-abortion protesters swarmed the streets around Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, physically blocking a planned pro-life march toward an abortion clinic in July 2022, EWTN News reported.

National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez reported that pro-abortion activists physically blocked the pro-life marchers inside the church. Lopez also filmed the Mass, during which protesters’ shouted over the priests.

6. Trinity Episcopal Church

A man reportedly attacked people with smoke bombs and pepper spray as they left a concert at Trinity Episcopal Church in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Jan. 27, 2023. The man reportedly yelled “white lives matter” while attacking people as they left the concert, which had an anti-racism theme. The New Jersey Attorney General’s office brought charges against the man, Nicholas G. Mucci.

Mucci pleaded guilty to aggravated arson and terroristic threats, and received an 8-year sentence.

7. Joy Metropolitan Community Church

A group of agitators who support traditional Christian sexuality have also disrupted pro-LGBTQ churches. In March 2025, about six or seven men, with children, entered the sanctuary of Joy Metropolitan Community Church in Orlando. WFTV-9 reported that this marked the fourth such disruption in a pattern targeting pro-LGBTQ churches.

The outlet reported that the agitators entered the sanctuary and stood up “to demonstrate midway through a sermon.”

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The mother of a newborn baby who was abandoned in Texas 24 years ago has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars.

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Monday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart News economics and finance editor John Carney talked about Eddie Bauer. Carney said, “They should be thriving. … I think what caused them to go bankrupt is that they went full woke in recent

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An illegal alien is accused of breaking into his neighbor's home and raping her in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. 

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Teachers all across the country have led their students out of the classroom and onto the streets to protest America's immigration policies, and many of these walkouts have featured students carrying foreign flags and resulted in violence and property damage.

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The House of Representatives on Monday passed the Housing for the 21st Century Act, making changes to federal housing regulations which proponents say could drive down the cost of homes.

The bill, sponsored by Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., passed by a 390-9 margin. Eight Republicans and one Democrat voted against it, while 33 members did not vote.

The bill advanced out of the committee on a bipartisan basis in December 2025 and has the backing of ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

Waters said in a December statement that it “makes meaningful reforms to housing programs that will make them more effective, efficient, and responsive to the needs of today’s families.”

During a floor speech Monday, Waters praised the bill for including a Democrat-backed provision which would allow states to use Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for the construction of affordable housing.

A press release from Hill’s office says the bill “streamlines housing production and affordability by updating outdated programs, removing unnecessary federal requirements, and increasing local flexibility.”

If signed into law, the bill would require that the Department of Housing and Urban Development publish new recommendations for zoning policy which state and local governments could choose to adopt. Additionally, the bill attempts to simplify federal environmental standards for building projects.

The bill would also simplify the process for providing housing grants, remove a regulation requiring that manufactured homes have a “permanent chassis,” remove barriers for veterans to access public housing, and set up a process for Congress to conduct oversight of HUD.

Additionally, the bill contains multiple provisions to ease regulations on community banks.

“The bill tackles an important roadblock to housing: financing,” reads an op-ed in The Hill co-authored by Rep. Hill and Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb. “Without loans, homes don’t get built, and community and regional banks play a critical role in this.”

Now the House is one step ahead of the Senate in advancing housing legislation. 

The Senate has previously included the ROAD to Housing Act in a version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that it passed in Oct. 2025.

However, in the final version of the NDAA, bicameral negotiators excluded it.

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The Virginia House passed multiple gun control bills, including a sweeping ban on commonly owned firearms and magazines, despite strong opposition from gun owners.

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BELLEVUE, WA – Anti-gun-rights Democrats—this time in New Mexico—are once again trying to reduce violent gun-related crime by penalizing people who aren’t responsible, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says in response.

“Senate Bill 17, which was passed by state Senate Democrats over the weekend, would ban semi-automatic firearms and original capacity magazines,” said CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb, “but it’s not going to prevent criminals from committing crimes. All this does s create the false impression that Democrats are doing something, when in reality they’re not accomplishing anything at all, except for adding burdens to firearms retailers and the law-abiding gun owners they serve.

“Proponents of this legislation have resorted to the usual inflammatory rhetoric we’ve come to expect, by calling these firearms and magazines ‘weapons of war,’” Gottlieb stated. “Tens of millions of law-abiding American citizens, including many New Mexicans, own such firearms and magazines, and they’re not a danger to anyone.”

The legislation, which may be read here, spans 17 pages. It passed on a 22-17 vote, with two Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against it.

“According to the World Population Review,” Gottlieb noted, “New Mexico is in the middle in terms of overall gun ownership, ranking 25th among the fifty states. It is astonishing that this sort of legislation is being pushed to the detriment of firearms retailers and their customers, none of whom has harmed anybody. Ratcheting down on the rights of honest people is not the way to fight crime.

“We’re encouraging gun owners in New Mexico to contact their state representatives and ask them to reject this legislation,” Gottlieb said. “Lawmakers need to go back to the drawing board and sit down with people from the firearms community to find solutions which do not penalize honest gun owners and firearms retailers.”

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After multiple recent deadly car crashes across the United States involving illegal aliens, Florida has changed its driver test policy to require all prospective drivers to take the test in English.

“All driver license knowledge and skills testing will be conducted in English” for both non-commercial and commercial driver’s licenses, according to the new policy.

The state “remains committed to ensuring safe roadways for all Floridians and visitors by promoting clear communication, understanding of traffic laws, and responsible driving behavior,” according to the the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responded to Florida’s new policy Monday, calling it “common sense.”

“Whether you’re driving a sedan or a big rig, you need to be able to read the rules of the road and communicate with law enforcement,” Duffy wrote on X.

Florida joins several other states, including Wyoming and Oklahoma, that only offer driver’s license tests in English.

The move in Florida follows reports of multiple deadly car accidents involving individuals living in the U.S. illegally.

Huang, a Chinese national, obtained a commercial driver’s license after illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico in 2023, according to the Department of Homeland Security. In December, he rear-ended a tractor-trailer in Tennessee, “causing a chain reaction that led to the death of one American, Kerry Smith, injuring 2 others.”

Huang failed the English proficiency test following the crash, according to DHS.

Bekzhan Beishekeev, a national of Kyrgyzstan, entered the U.S. during the Biden administration using the CBP One app and was issued a commercial license in Pennsylvania.

On Feb. 3, Beishekeev was driving a semi-truck in Indiana and swerved into oncoming traffic, crashed into a van, and killed four people, according to the ABC affiliate WHAM.

The office of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, contests the DHS claim that Beishekeev did not have legal status in the U.S. when he was issued the drivers license. 

“The individual in question had legal status in [DHS Secretary] Kristi Noem’s database when the license was issued in July 2025 and still shows as eligible to receive a license as of today,” Shapiro spokesperson Alex Peterson told Fox News. 

“In recent months, we’ve seen a disturbing pattern of criminal illegal aliens driving commercial vehicles on American roads, directly threatening public safety and resulting in senseless loss of life,” according to DHS.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does not collect data related to the number of fatal vehicle accidents that involve illegal aliens, as state vehicle crash reports do not include this information.

The Department of Transportation does report the number of fatalities from motor vehicle crashes each year. During the first half of 2025, DOT projected that over 17,000 people died in vehicle crashes. DOT also reports that 19% of vehicle fatalities involved drivers with invalid licenses.

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