An additional 30 people have been federally indicted in an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul church, the U.S. Attorney General announced Friday. Protesters disrupted services inside Cities Church on Summit Avenue near Snelling Avenue on Jan. 18, chanting “ICE out” amid an immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota. People also shouted, “Justice for Renee Good,” who was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. They said the acting field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota serves as a pastor at the church. Nine people were indicted last month. They were charged under the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The FACE Act prohibits interference or intimidation of “any person by force, threat of force, or physical obstruction exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.” The Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging 30 more people Friday, also under the FACE Act, bringing the total charged to 39. “At my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them, with more to come throughout the day,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X. “YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us — we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you. This Department of Justice STANDS for Christians and all Americans of faith.” The people charged last month have pleaded not guilty. They include Twin Cities civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon, St. Paul School Board Member Chauntyll Allen and independent Twin Cities journalist Georgia Fort. “For those who care more about us going into Cities Church and having a peaceful protest than they care about the reason that we were there in the first place, shame on you,” Levy Armstrong said outside the courthouse Friday. “… If you claim to stand for Christianity, … if you love your neighbor, you will not be allowing the terrorism that we have experienced here at the hands of ICE federal agents, the federal government and the Trump administration.” Also charged in January were Hennepin County Attorney’s Office lobbyist Jamael Lundy, who is running for Minnesota Senate District 65; St. Paul activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota Trahern Crews; and Jerome Deangelo Richardson, who said he’s a college student who was assisting Lemon with logistics when he was in the Twin Cities for reporting. The people arrested Friday included Monique Culllars-Doty, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota; Danielle Matthias, Minnesota Freedom Fund director of policy and advocacy; and Satara Strong-Allen, wife of Chauntyll Allen and executive director of nonprofit Love First. As of early Friday afternoon, 26 of the 30 people had been arrested, including in New York and North Dakota, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights wrote on X. The indictment alleges Levy Armstrong, Allen, Strong-Allen and Cullars-Doty, along with other people, organized what they called “Operation Pullup” and that “a group of approximately 40 agitators” entered the church. Doug Wardlow, an attorney representing Cities Church, said the indictment of additional people “sends a clear message: houses of worship are off limits for those who would use chaos and intimidation to advance a political agenda.” “The invasion of Cities Church was a planned, coordinated effort to disrupt a worship service and interfere with religious exercise that placed congregants, including children, in fear for their lives,” he said in a Friday statement. “The First Amendment does not give anyone — regardless of profession, prominence, or politics — license to storm a church and intimidate, threaten, and terrorize families and children worshipping inside.” As people made their initial appearances in federal court in St. Paul on Friday afternoon, Magistrate Judge John Docherty released them on personal recognizance bonds and ordered them to stay away from Cities Church. Earlier this week, a woman who said she was attending Cities Church during the protest filed a federal lawsuit against eight of the people already charged, plus additional unnamed people. She asked for damages for “emotional distress, fear, anxiety, trauma” and interference with her “ability to freely exercise her religion.”