Special Coverage: Everglades Detention Prayer Vigil 5
For five Sundays in a row religious groups from all over the state of Florida have convened in the middle of the first road to cross the Florida peninsula, US 41, to pray for the people detained in the tent city across the street from them in the photo above and to pray for the facility to be closed for the benefit of the people in it, the people who might be sent to it, the people working at it, for the people whose land it is on (the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians), for the drinking water supply for 6 million residents of South Florida and for the environment itself.
While news had spread from two days earlier that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in Miami issued a preliminary injunction essentially shutting down the facility, the petitioners of the Creator were skeptical but cautiously optimistic that the facility would be shuttered any time soon.
Below you'll find a ten minute video of the prayer vigil edited to give the viewer a taste of the event without showing the entire hour of it.
Despite torrential downpours bracketing the event, at least 100 people attended in the heat of the summer, with crushing humidity and an abundance of mosquitos.
Attendees of the prayer vigil knew that in the summer it is hot, humid and mosquito filled along US 41 but over 100 showed up anyway to demand the facility be closed. Photo Credit Philip Cardella TWIFL Copyright 2025.
It's amazing how many people come to the Everglades in the summer when local advocates of the place can tell you: it belongs to the mosquito in the summer, come back in the winter when its paradise.
Also, it was muddy.
Yes, there is another prayer vigil, same place (US 41 Mile Marker 48), same time (5 PM eastern).