Vigil in H-burg to Protest Treatment Of Refugees at Detention Centers

Lights for Liberty, a worldwide candlelight vigil, will be held on Friday, July 12, at the steps of the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg to protest the inhumane treatment of refugees seeking asylum in the United States detention centers.

Beginning at 7 p.m., various community leaders, religious leaders and activists will speak about the issue of the human detention camps in this nation.

At 9 p.m., attendees in Hollidaysburg as well as the 20-plus locations in Pennsylvania, the hundreds of towns and cities around the United States and some cities across the world will light candles in a silent vigil in order to spotlight the policies that continue to separate children from their families and imprison migrants in horrific conditions.

Lights for Liberty is a grassroots outcry in response to the recent news of abhorrent conditions in detention camps, the continued separation and traumatization of the children, and the policies which seek to create, and escalate, a crisis at the border, and threaten more children's lives in addition to the ones already lost.

Area sponsors include Indivisible Pennsylvania, Indivisible Blair County and the Unity Coalition for the Southern Alleghenies as well as the support of several different churches of different faiths.