天主教与福音派领袖发表联合声明 吁移民政策兼顾家庭团聚与边境安全
华盛顿——美国天主教主教团（USCCB）移民委员会主席 Bishop Brendan Cahill 与全美福音派协会（National Association of Evangelicals，NAE）会长 Walter Kim 牧师10月13日发表联合声明《在移民辩论中呼唤基督徒的同情与智慧》。据双方介绍，这是美国历史上首次由天主教与福音派两大传统的高层领袖就移民议题共同发表声明。
Cahill 与 Kim 共同担任「福音派—天主教移民对话」（Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on Immigration，ECDI）联合主席；该机制由 USCCB 与 NAE 于2026年3月共同设立。两人在声明中表示：「完全可以采取更多措施，避免无差别、强硬的执法行动撕裂我们的家庭与社区。」声明提出多项共同原则：每个人都按上帝的形象受造、具有尊严；政府负有保护公民与促进公共利益的责任，包括制定与执行合理的移民政策；相关政策应包括有针对性、人道的边境执法、清晰的合法移民通道，并致力于防止家庭分离。
声明同时指出，某些移民执法做法已带来宗教自由方面的风险，并提及 St. Louis 总教区就一项政策起诉联邦政府的案件——该政策被指禁止神父向被移民与海关执法局（ICE）拘留者分送圣体与听告解。据宗教新闻社（Religion News Service）报道，两机构去年合作的一份报告发现，美国每12名基督徒中就有1人可能面临被驱逐、或有家人面临被驱逐的风险。双方在声明中表示，尽管教义有别，两大传统都认同应同时与正经历经济与文化焦虑的美国同胞、以及面临生存挑战的移民邻舍站在一起。
来源：据美国天主教主教团（USCCB）、全美福音派协会（NAE）10月13日联合声明及宗教新闻社报道整理。
Catholic and Evangelical Leaders Issue First Joint Statement Calling for Compassionate, Wise Immigration Policy
WASHINGTON — Bishop Brendan Cahill, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Migration, and the Rev. Walter Kim, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), released a joint statement on October 13 titled 'A Call for Christian Compassion and Wisdom in the Immigration Debate.' The leaders said it is the first such statement on immigration in U.S. history to be jointly issued by senior leaders of the Catholic and evangelical traditions.
Cahill and Kim co-chair the Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on Immigration (ECDI), established by the USCCB and the NAE in March 2026. 'There is much that can be done to avoid the rupturing of our families and communities brought about by indiscriminate and aggressive enforcement actions,' the two said in the statement. It articulated shared principles: every human being is created with dignity, bearing God's image; government is responsible for protecting its citizens and providing for the common good, including the establishment and enforcement of reasonable immigration policies; and those policies should include targeted, humane border enforcement, clear legal pathways to citizenship and efforts to prevent the separation of families.
The statement also highlighted risks to religious liberty presented by certain immigration enforcement efforts, citing a lawsuit from the Archdiocese of St. Louis against the federal government over a policy it said prohibits priests from distributing holy Communion and hearing the confessions of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A report the two groups produced last year found that 1 in 12 Christians in the U.S. could face deportation or have a family member at risk of deportation, according to Religion News Service. The leaders said that although their traditions have doctrinal differences, they are united in standing both with fellow Americans experiencing economic and cultural anxieties and with immigrant neighbors facing existential challenges.
Source: Compiled from the USCCB–NAE joint statement (October 13) and Religion News Service reporting.
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