No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
Rise up with us for No Kings II, 10/18Interfaith Alliance issued a memo on February 5, 2025, detailing the Trump administration’s attacks on faith communities in the first days of the administration. We continue to add to the list, as thousands of people of faith sign our petition to call on the Trump administration to end the attacks.
The religious right has cried wolf for decades about “government overreach” and “the Left” attacking religious institutions. We are now actually witnessing the federal government marshaling resources to attack individual faith leaders and major religious institutions. The Trump administration is quickly becoming the most harmful to religious freedom in modern American history.
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These attacks on religious institutions are meant to have a chilling effect on faith leaders' religious freedom to hold governments accountable. Authoritarians around the world and throughout history have attempted to force faith communities to serve their regimes. Yet we also know that faith-based activism is a powerful counterforce to extremism, and acts of religious resistance to the Trump administration are inspiring others to speak out and denounce these measures.
This list was last updated on February 13, 2025.
After months in detention, we finally received the good news that Ohio chaplain Ayman Soliman was released from jail as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) dropped his deportation case. Soliman was an interfaith chaplain at a children’s hospital and a longtime leader of the Ohio Muslim community with deep ties to interfaith work across the state. As ProPublica reported, Soliman’s asylum status was restored and his application for a green card was revived. This news came through the dedicated hard work and advocacy of many organizations, particularly CAIR-Ohio and his colleagues at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, who were fired for speaking out on his behalf.
Earlier this year, during the holy month of Ramadan, ICE agents followed Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil home after he broke his fast and forcibly detained him without a warrant. Khalil, a Palestinian activist, was then disappeared into an unmarked vehicle and taken to an unknown location as his pregnant wife watched and pleaded for information. It was later revealed that Khalil had been moved to a detention center in Jena, Louisiana, where he faced deportation. He was held for over three months in poor conditions, missing his graduation and the birth of his first child.
In early July, Ayman Soliman, a former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after his asylum status was terminated in June. In response, local faith leaders organized a prayer vigil, rally, and peaceful march; during the march at least 15 protesters were detained by local police and charged with felony rioting.