{"id":13458,"date":"2026-05-28T03:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/amid-protests-at-delaney-hall-a-catholic-nun-has-been-offering-radical-hospitality\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:17:20","slug":"amid-protests-at-delaney-hall-a-catholic-nun-has-been-offering-radical-hospitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/amid-protests-at-delaney-hall-a-catholic-nun-has-been-offering-radical-hospitality\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid protests at Delaney Hall, a Catholic nun has been offering &#8216;radical hospitality&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_damyZHN3m8a?ui_title_intro=Listen+now%3A&amp;client=wp&amp;client_version=3.1.5\" width=\"100%\" height=\"136px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) \u2014 For five days, Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has been in the news for large and loud protests over conditions inside the facility. After some 300 detainees began a hunger and labor strike over what they said were inhumane conditions, the protests have grown to include members of Congress, such as Sen. Andy Kim and Rep. Robert Menendez, both Democrats from New Jersey.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But for the last year, one woman, Sister Susan Francois, has overseen a \u201cRadical Hospitality\u201d tent outside Delaney Hall, bearing witness and ministering to families and friends visiting detainees. She started coming in May 2025, when there was a major <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2025\/08\/25\/religious-activists-host-prayer-service-outside-of-the-east-coasts-largest-immigrant-detention-center\/\">protest over conditions in front of Delaney Hall, <\/a>and a New Jersey gubernatorial candidate and a member of Congress were arrested. Soon after, Francois started visiting about twice a week and documenting her work on TikTok, hoping to inspire other people to take action and spread hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Watch a day in her life and the first episode of\u00a0 \u201cFaith on the Immigration Frontline,\u201d RNS\u2019 short-form documentary series about clergy and religious community members putting their faith to work on the front lines of America\u2019s immigration crisis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"i2_W-iaTUAU\"><iframe title=\"How a Catholic nun provides &amp;apos;radical hospitality&amp;apos; outside Delaney Hall detention center\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i2_W-iaTUAU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2026\/05\/27\/delaney-hall-sister-susan-radical-hospitality\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) \u2014 For five days, Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has been in the news for large and loud protests over conditions inside the facility. After some 300 detainees began a hunger and labor strike over what they said were inhumane conditions, the protests have grown to include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}