Rosa Gutierrez Lopez is the first undocumented immigrant to seek public sanctuary in the Washington, D.C. area, according to Omar Angel Perez, lead organizer of DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network. She was welcomed at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, whose congregation voted 18 months ago to become a sanctuary congregation.
“This is your home,” Rev. Abhi Janamancki, the spiritual leader of Cedar Lane, told Gutierrez Lopez during a vigil on Wednesday in which interfaith religious leaders laid hands on her and spoke of the importance of working together to help.
