ELCA pastor deported to Colombia

Betty Rendón, a pastor at Emaus Lutheran Church in Racine, Wisconsin, was deported on May 28, along with her husband, Carlos Hincapie.

Church members and supporters had rallied around Rendón, who was beginning doctoral studies in preaching at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

Paul Erickson, bishop of the Evan­geli­cal Lutheran Church in America’s Great­er Milwaukee Synod, had encouraged people to send cards to Rendón and her husband while they were detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to show “how many people are waiting and watching with her.”