History is filled with notable moments when people of faith around the world have stood in collective resistance to inhumane laws. Slavery, genocide in Nazi Germany, death squads in El Salvador, Jim Crow, and marriage inequality to name a few. They are resisting the law once again by giving sanctuary to a Honduran asylum-seeker after the government stopped granting asylum to people fleeing domestic abuse

In 2013, Abbie Arevalo-Herrera said she took an opportunity from God to come to the U.S. to escape her ex-husband who beat her numerous times and threatened to kill her. She left an infant daughter behind with her mother, believing she was too young to survive the trip.

Since June 2018, she has been living in sanctuary with her two other young children in the basement of a church in Richmond, Virginia. She can’t step outside without risk of being arrested and deported. As she fights her deportation order and for a more compassionate immigration policy, she and Lana Heath de Martinez -- a Union alumna and faith-based activist -- met with Joe Slay to discuss how God affirms their faith in the sanctuary movement and when Christian values are above the law.

Pictured from right, Union matters! interviewer Joe Slay, Abbie Arevalo-Herrera, interpreter Leonina Arismendi, Union alumna Lana Heath de Martinez, and Union matters! producer Mike Frontiero in the church where Arevalo-Herrera lives in sanctuary.