As police crack down on UT Austin protesters, campus churches find a new way to reach out

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Churches around the university have found themselves providing food, medical aid and spiritual support amid pro-Palestinian protests and the police response.

University Baptist Church on Guadalupe has been a place of respite for pro-Palestinian demonstrators during protests at UT Austin over the past week.have roiled the UT Austin campus over the last week. The turmoil has many people in the university community taking on roles they normally do not.

“This is where we had a lot of the protesters come to escape the pepper spray and tear gas,” Webb told KUT on Tuesday, gesturing to the hall by the church’s front entrance. “This area was flooded in milk and water.” University Baptist happens to be near where the protests and police actions have happened. But other campus-area churches have been coordinating to help students and others, and members have volunteered at University Baptist.

For the Rev. Webb and her volunteers that means offering food, medical care or more spiritual support.

 

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