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Jerry Falwell's awkward tweet response

Jerry Falwell Jr. takes on SBC’s Russell Moore on migrant children at the border

Jerry Falwell Jr.
BATAVIA, Ill., June 26, 2019 – Today a report in HufPost.com notes the awkward tweet response from Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. and Trump supporter to a religious leader’sRead More

Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer responds

Crisis at the U.S. southern border…results in deaths

deaths at southern border
A photo of a Salvadoran father and his daughter lying face down in the water of the Rio Grande shows the human toll of a crisis at the border. Another report on thisRead More

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Opinion | This is the reality of Trump’s America – Washington Post

He panders to his base by cruelly treating brown-skinned migrant children like subhumans. Source: Opinion | This is the reality of Trump’s America – Washington Post

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Scott Arbeiter: Why Evangelical Christians are the key to compassionate, comprehensive immigration reform – Fox News

Evangelical views on immigration are more nuanced than most people realize, and if President Trump wants to lean on support from the evangelical community in 2020, he needs to takeRead More

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One-on-One with Rich Nathan on Immigration and Diversity at Columbus Vineyard – CT

“If you can bring people together in safe spaces where they get to know each other as people and not as issues, you can see a lot of change.” Source:Read More

Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Mexico joined social justice groups

Catholic bishops, advocates meet to discuss response to Trump border policies

Catholic bishops at US/Mexico border.
by: Jack Jenkins, Feb 28, 2019 (RNS) — A group Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Mexico joined social justice groups for what organizers described as an “emergency” summit thisRead More

But other moments in the speech offered a reminder of the partisan divide that has riven Washington in recent years...

Trump’s State of the Union garners mixed reactions among faith groups

Catholic vote important for Trump
by: Jack Jenkins, Feb 6, 2019 WASHINGTON (RNS) – Religious leaders and people of faith offered mixed reactions to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening (Feb. 5),Read More

Pelosi noted that she had long worked with evangelicals on comprehensive immigration reform.

Pelosi, DeVos address Christian educators on policy and faith

by: Adelle M. Banks Jan 30, 2019 -WASHINGTON (RNS) – ”Hours before post-shutdown conversations began on immigration and border security on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a groupRead More

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On immigration, some Evangelicals mistake ‘America for the Kingdom of God’: former-Muslim pastor – Christian Post

A former Muslim turned Texas pastor who came to the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution told those gathered at the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2019 Evangelicals for Life conference Thursday thatRead More

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Evangelical Leaders Call for an End to the Shutdown through Bipartisan Immigration Compromise

January 14, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Evangelical leaders sent letters to President Trump and members of Congress today encouraging an end to the government shutdown through bipartisan immigration compromise, and urging the House,Read More