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An Arizona city will allow a church to oversee a food distribution ministry that provides aid to hundreds of families in need near the United States' southern border amid a legal dispute.

The City of San Luis and Gethsemani Baptist Church settled in September through a consent decree entered by a federal court, with the agreement being recently announced.

According to a statement issued Monday by the First Liberty Institute, which represented Gethsemani, the church will be allowed to continue its ministry after city officials initially shut it down.

"Gethsemani Baptist Church has only ever wanted to continue its 25-year mission of providing food for the hungry, hurting people in their community," said FLI Senior Counsel Ryan Gardner.

"We are grateful that the city's agree

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