Stories tagged with: citizenship

• FIRST-PERSON: Global citizenship = global disaster

  by Adam Groza, posted Friday, October 12, 2018 (5 years ago)

  Adam Groza examines the pitfalls of the idea of "global citizenship" as an answer to the world's immigration issues. Even with "the cool-factor of star power," it would be a global disaster, he writes. Read More

• Nov. 8: Christians should vote

  by Steve Gaines, posted Monday, November 07, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

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  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP) -- One of my favorite movies is an old classic starring Gary Cooper called "Sergeant York."

  The story is about a Tennessee mountain man named Alvin York, a poor farmer who kept running into bad luck. But along the way he became a Christian. When World War I broke out, he designated himself as a conscientious objector because he believed the Bible taught people not to kill.

  While he was in basic training, he excelled as a marksman. He came to a crisis ... Read More

• Citizenship buoys father-son Hispanic pastors

  by Brian Blackwell/Louisiana Baptist Message, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  FLORIEN, La. (BP) -- Arturo Us is "thankful to God I'm a U.S. citizen."

  Us, who hails from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, ministers to Hispanics throughout three Louisiana parishes (counties) as pastor of El Aposento Alto Baptist Church in Florien.

  "I'm blessed," Us said of earning U.S. citizenship last November with his son Arturo Jr, pastor of El Alfa Y La Omega in Leesville, La. "I think it's the will of God that He brought me here to this place," Us said. Read More