Evangelicals Voice Opposition to Deportations of Iraqi Christians |
J.D. Greear and the Rejection of Partisanship, but Not Politics |
Prominent evangelical leaders are condemning the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Iraqi immigrants, which include Chaldean Christians, as part of a deal struck with the Iraqi government to remove the country from the Trump administration’s travel ban.
Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention and six others wrote Homeland Security secretary John Kelly in a letter dated Monday to oppose the administration’s plan, which has swept up hundreds of immigrants. Less than two weeks ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 114 Iraqis in Michigan, a crackdown the government defended by arguing that the detainees had criminal pasts and were a threat to the public. Read more. |
J.D. Greear is looking to lead the largest Protestant denomination in the United States away from partisanship.
The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention became the youngest member (45) elected head in decades last month, winning 69 percent of a convention vote with unusually high turnout from young and first-time attendees. Greear defeated Ken Hemphill, an older, more traditional candidate endorsed by Robert Jeffress, the ardently pro-Trump pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas. While still conservative, Greear has criticized the Republican party, lately decrying family separations at the border. He laid out paths for how Christians could vote for either party or not at all in 2016. Read more. |
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