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6 I IN THE NEWS
SOUTH TEXAS CATHOLIC * JUNE 18,2010
PROTESTERS EXTEND HANDS IN PRAYER DURING IMMIGRATION DEMONSTRATION IN PHOENIX
Protesters extend their hands in prayer infront of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix May 23, priortoGov. Jan
Brewer signing into law an immigration bill that makes it a crime for immigrants to be in the state illegally. The
law has spurred a whole range of actions by churches, including some that decided to move their conventions
out of the state and others that are holding weeks-long prayer vigils. (CNS photo/J.D. Long-Garcia, Catholic Sun)
Nation
Evangelical leaders unite
to push for comprehensive
immigration reform
WASHINGTON (CNS) --
Immigration reform is “about the
only public policy issue upon which
there is great unanimity across
the Christian spectrum,” said the
Rev. Rich Nathan, of the Vineyard
Church of Columbus, Ohio, in a
forum of conservative evangelical
leaders working for comprehensive
reform. “Abortion divides us, gay
rights divide us, war and peace
divides us -- comprehensive
immigration reform unites us,”
Rev. Nathan said in the June 9 press
conference at the Capitol, shortly
before participants had meetings
with congressional leaders and
the director of the White House
Domestic Policy Council. The
meeting was “truly historic,” group
founder Juan Hernandez said at the
Conservatives for Comprehensive
Immigration Reform conference.
“We’ve never had all these groups
sitting at the table favoring
comprehensive immigration,”
Hernandez said in a June 10
phone interview with Catholic
News Service. Johnny Young,
executive director of Migration
and Refugee Services for the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops,
told CNS in a later interview that
“the evangelicals are a significant
portion of the U.S. population, their
numbers can’t be ignored,” and
said the USCCB is pleased to see a
“convergence of views, and that we
can work together in pressuring our
legislators to move on this much-
needed change in legislation.”
Approximately 26.3 percent of
the U.S.’s adult population are
evangelicals according to a 2007
survey by the Pew Forum on
Religion & Public Life. About 23.9
percent of U.S. adults are Catholic,
according to the survey.
Catholic media has role
in building up unity of
believers, prelate says
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -
Catholic media “should strive to
build up the unity of believers”
and also must speak “to those
who are not members
of our community,” the
head of the Pontifical
Council for Social
Communications said in
a speech in New Orleans
June 4. Archbishop
Claudio Celli made
the remarks during
the closing banquet
at the Catholic Media
Convention, sponsored
by the Catholic Press
Association of the U.S.
and Canada and the
Catholic Academy for
Communication Arts
Professionals. The
archbishop attended
the entire June 2-4
convention, including a
dialogue session between
North American
bishops and Catholic
media professionals. A
fundamental element
of the identity of the
Catholic media is that
it “has a particular
role to play in the
church’s basic mission
of evangelization,” he
said at the banquet. “The
communication of the
good news of God’s love
for all people, as expressed in the
life, death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ, is what unifies and makes
sense of all the other aspects of the
life of the church,” he said
Faith groups across the
spectrum taking up call for
immigration reform
WASHINGTON (CNS) - Across
the faith spectrum this year, from
the Sojourners to the Ethics and
Religious Liberty Commission of the
Southern Baptists, prayer, education
and advocacy are being taken up for
the cause of immigration reform.
Arizona’s passage in April of a law
making it a crime to be in the state
without immigration documents
has spurred a range of actions by
churches, including some that
decided to move their conventions
out of the state and others that
are holding weeks-long prayer
vigils. Still others are steering clear
of commenting on the law, but
have stepped up their activities in
support of national immigration
reform legislation. In early June,
the superiors of each of the nine
U.S. Jesuit conferences sent a letter
to President Barack Obama and
members of Congress pressing
for immediate reform. “With
the new Arizona law, there is a
real risk that life on our national
borders will become subject to a
patchwork of state responses,” said
Jesuit Father Thomas H. Smolich,
president of the Jesuit Conference
of the United States, in a statement
accompanying the letter. “Congress
is faced with both a constitutional
and a moral imperative to act.” A
week later, leaders of nine major
conservative evangelical churches
or institutions at a press conference
in the Capitol made a similar call to
action by Congress, with an added
emphasis on tying such steps as
legalization to prerequisites to
control illegal traffic across the
Mexican border. Meanwhile, the
Interfaith Immigration Coalition
has organized a national solidarity
vigil and fast, running from June
6 to July 28, the date Arizona’s
legislation is scheduled to take
effect. The coalitions members
include Lutheran, Mennonite,
Jewish, Islamic, Sikh and Unitarian
groups as well as Franciscans,
Jesuits, Sisters of Mercy, Pax Christi
USA and Network, a Catholic social
justice lobby.
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