{"id":812986,"date":"2026-05-21T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/812986\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:33:15","slug":"south-philly-parish-to-hold-panel-on-immigration-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/812986\/","title":{"rendered":"South Philly Parish to Hold Panel on Immigration, Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted May 21, 2026 <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-226577 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Religion-and-the-Immigrant-Experience-June-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"478\"  \/>A panel discussion exploring the connection between religious pluralism and the immigrant experience in the United States will take place Sunday, June 7 from 2:00p.m. \u2013 4:00 p.m. at St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Old City.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cReligion and the Immigrant Experience: Building This Country Together,\u201d the program will feature scholars, historians and theologians examining how immigration has shaped the nation\u2019s religious landscape and how that history informs the future. Participants also will learn about the history of St. Augustine\u2019s, an immigrant church that was burned during the Nativist Riots of 1844.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists include Father Michael DiGregorio, Peter Pedemonti, and Catherine E. Wilson. The discussion will be moderated by Kathy Rigby.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of Interfaith Philadelphia\u2019s \u201cReligious Freedom: Then &amp; Now\u201d initiative. Additional information and tickets are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfaithphiladelphia.org\/events\/religion-and-the-immigrant-experience-building-this-country-together\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted May 21, 2026 A panel discussion exploring the connection between religious pluralism and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":812987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,330249,330250,409,330251,1448,2830,330252,1311,330253,330254,309511,25530,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-812986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-catherine-e-wilson","tag-father-michael-digregorio","tag-immigration","tag-interfaith-philadelphia","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-peter-pedemonti","tag-philadelphia","tag-religion-and-the-immigrant-experience-building-this-country-together","tag-religious-freedom-then-amp-now","tag-religious-pluralism","tag-st-augustine","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}