Stories tagged with: immigration

• NAMB, San Diego association back church planter facing deportation

  by Liz Tablazon/Biblical Recorder, posted Friday, January 17, 2020 (one month ago)

  

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  SAN DIEGO (BP) -- The San Diego Southern Baptist Association (SDSBA) and the North American Mission Board (NAMB) are standing behind a British church planter and his family who are facing deportation at the end of the month.

  Obed Brefo, pastor of King's Cross Church in San Diego, and his wife Elena were working toward extending their religious (R1) visa and applying for permanent residency and eventual U.S. citizenship when the church sponsoring their visa terminated their application in 2018. Read More

• EXPLAINER: ERLC, George Soros and Evangelical Immigration Table

  by BP Explainer, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (one month ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- A Breitbart.com article recently highlighted the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), an organization credited with persuading multiple governors to allow refugees to resettle in their states. The article also suggested the group has ties to the progressive billionaire George Soros. A number of blogs have circulated these rumors, charging the group and those affiliated with it as advancing an "open borders" mass immigration agenda. These claims have proved to be false. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: What we can learn from the shepherds

  by Milton A. Hollifield Jr., posted Friday, December 13, 2019 (2 months ago)

  

  "Most of us would expect that such a message would first be proclaimed to those with status and nobility," says Milton Hollifield, "rather than to lowly shepherds who probably didn't even own the sheep they were tending." Read More

• Women's group hears 'heartbreaking' stories at border

  by Grace Thornton, posted Thursday, September 12, 2019 (5 months ago)

  

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  JUAREZ, Mexico (BP) -- The man was afraid that if he refused one more time, it might be his last.

  Or even worse -- it might seal his teenage daughter's fate.

  "In Guatemala, it's next to impossible to run a small business, because once you start doing well and making money, the gangs will come in and start demanding money" ... Read More

• On the border: 'Urgent need' to show Christ's love

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, July 26, 2019 (7 months ago)

  

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  TIJUANA, Mexico (BP) -- The two adult sisters risked their lives in a months-long journey from Cameroon in Central Africa to Tijuana, Mexico. Southern Baptist pastor Marshal Ausberry was surprised to see them at the Southern U.S. border seeking asylum in America.

  "It's just not people from Central America and South America that are coming," Ausberry, first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, told Baptist Press following his trip last week to the border. "There are people from Africa and Haiti that have migrated to Mexico in attempts to come through the border to the United States." Read More

• N.M. Baptists continue to aid migrants

  by Daniel Porter/Baptist New Mexican , posted Wednesday, July 03, 2019 (7 months ago)

  

  Photo by Xchelzin Peña/Deming Headlight

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (BNM) -- Serving asylum-seeking migrants is as simple as "a cup of cold water in Jesus' name" says Frieda Adams, a former 20-year veteran Southern Baptist missionary and current coordinator for medical personnel in New Mexico's Dona Ana County.

  Adams is one of many Baptists in New Mexico providing humanitarian assistance to asylum-seeking migrants vetted and released by United States Customs and Border Patrol agents, en route to approved immigration sponsors in other parts of the country. Read More

• Explainer: What's happening with children at the southern border?

  by Travis Wussow and Jeff Pickering, posted Tuesday, July 02, 2019 (7 months ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Recent outcry over issues at the United States–Mexico border broke out after reporting from the Associated Press revealed unconscionable conditions for child migrants in government custody in a facility near El Paso, Texas.

  The AP story highlighted concerns from a group of attorneys who interviewed 60 children at the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) site. Read More

• Southern Baptists respond to border crisis

  by Jane Rodgers/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Thursday, June 27, 2019 (8 months ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of West Brownsville Baptist Church

  BROWNSVILLE, Texas (BP) -- While state and national officials craft responses to the humanitarian crisis along the Mexico border, Southern Baptist entities -- including the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and the North American Mission Board -- are actively engaged in addressing the migrant influx.

  "The crisis at our southern border is unlike anything we've witnessed before and has put an enormous strain on the existing resources we have in place," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: My first day in America

  by Paul Kim, posted Tuesday, June 18, 2019 (8 months ago)

  Retelling his journey from his homeland of Korea to his citizenship in America, Paul Kim looks toward his life's next destination -- in heaven. Read More

• 'Hungry' & 'confused' migrants aided by N.M. Baptists

  by Daniel Porter & Joy Pittman/Baptist New Mexican, posted Wednesday, April 10, 2019 (10 months ago)

  

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  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (BP) -- At the request of municipal and federal agencies, faith-based organizations in Albuquerque, N.M., including the Baptist Convention of New Mexico, are helping to house and feed more than 400 asylum-seeking migrants from South and Central America.

  "This is a different kind of response for us," said Ira Shelton, director of New Mexico Baptist Disaster Relief (NMBDR). Jesus' teaching on helping "the least of these" Matthew 25:31-46 "says to me, we need to be helping these people. They're hungry and they're confused. If we can bring hope, help and healing, then that's what we need to do." Read More