“Evangelicals may boost immigration shift”
Read a Dec. 8, 2012, San Antonio Express-News story about the influence that evangelicals could have on Republican lawmakers’ immigration positions.
Category: Beliefs & practices
“Utah holiday march to include multi-faith call for immigration reform”
A December 2012 Las Posadas procession in Salt Lake City incorporated the reading of a multifaith statement backing immigration reform. Plans for the event were detailed on The Salt Lake Tribune’s Following Faith blog.
“Answers to immigration reform lie in our own stories”
Read a Jan. 3, 2013, column at jweekly.com urging Jewish support for “just and compassionate” immigration reform. The author is Eric D. Horodas, outgoing board chair for the Anti-Defamation League’s Central Pacific Region.
“Post-Romney Agenda for Jewish Conservatives”
Read a Jan. 3, 2013, column in The Jewish Daily Forward that gives a Jewish conservative’s perspective on the debate.
“Migration Week brings revived interest in letter, push for legislation”
Read a Jan. 3, 2013, Catholic News Service story about National Migration Week and Catholic bishops’ renewed push for action on immigration.
“Evangelical Christians prepare for ‘largest ever grassroots push on immigration’”
Read a Jan. 12, 2013 CNN story, “Evangelical Christians prepare for ‘largest ever grassroots push on immigration’.”
“Hate Map”
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups and domestic terrorism, says there were more than 1,000 hate groups in the United States in 2012. These groups often have a religious element to their agendas.
“Building Mosques, Importing Jihad”
Read an interview at BeliefNet with Brian Glynn Williams, a historian of Islam, who says that “Islam is not the driving machine behind the Chechen resistance.”
“Why terrorist bombings have been rare in U.S. in past decade”
Read an April 17 column at CNN on the decline in the number of bombings in the U.S. in recent years and who has been behind the earlier attacks.