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OSV Rosary service brings ‘prayerful, peaceful presence’ to NJ immigrant detention facility

OSV News photo/Father Anthony Palombo, courtesy Archdiocese of Newark

Written by John Touhey & Shania Mosquera | Jersey Catholic

NEWARK, N.J. (OSV News) — In response to rising tensions at the Delaney Hall immigrant detention facility in Newark, the Archdiocese of Newark held a prayer service about half a mile from its entrance.

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin attended the May 31 service, which included a bilingual rosary and testimony from a family whose loved one has been detained inside the facility for the past two months.

“As we saw the violence escalate at Delaney Hall since Memorial Day, the archdiocese wanted to have a prayerful, peaceful presence there,” Father Timothy Graff, archdiocesan secretary of parish mission and vitality, told Jersey Catholic, the news site of the Archdiocese of Newark.

He was among those participating in the service, along with Father Alex Gaitain, immigration ministry coordinator, and Father Anthony Palombo,  priest secretary to the cardinal.

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