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National Clergy Leaders Urge Protection of Family Unity as Senate Immigration Markup Proceeds
Originally Posted: 05/16/2013 - 2:01pm | Type: Press

May 15, 2013 Sojo in the News Mel Fabrikant ...

House Immigration Group at Impasse
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 1:32pm | Type: Blog

The House’s bipartisan immigration group has reached a impasse over many facets of the immigration legislation including the employment verification program. The House’s bipartis ...

Christians Wrestle with Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:41pm | Type: Press

May 13, 2013 Sojo in the News Mark D. Tooley ...

Gang of 8 Defends Guest Worker Plan
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 11:38am | Type: Blog

The Gang of Eight will work this week to stop amendments to the guest work portion of the immigration bill. The Gang of Eight is banding together across party lines to fend off a ...

On Scripture: When 'Homeland Security' Keeps Us From Encountering God
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 9:22am | Type: Blog

When I’m very different from someone else and yet we manage to live into an authentic unity supported by trust, we may gain a glimpse into God’s own wideness, perhaps discovering God to be more than we predict ...

1 in 10 Los Angeles Residents Are Undocumented
Originally Posted: 05/09/2013 - 11:42am | Type: Blog

The study estimated that 7 percent of California residents were undocumented. In Los Angeles County the number jumped to 10 percent. A study by the University of Southern Califo ...

Conservatives Back Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 05/09/2013 - 10:56am | Type: Blog

Conservatives have united around immigration reform. Conservatives have united around immigration reform. Over two dozen signed a statement supporting legislation to overhaul US ...

Evangelicals on Immigration Reform: 'How We Treat the Stranger Is How We Treat Christ'
Originally Posted: 05/09/2013 - 10:19am | Type: Press

May 9, 2013 Sojo in the News Stoyan Zaimov ...

Republicans Demand Stronger Border Security in Immigration Bill
Originally Posted: 05/08/2013 - 3:25pm | Type: Blog

Republicans are pushing for stronger border security measures in the immigration bill. Republicans are pushing for stronger border security measures in the immigration bill. Stro ...

Conservatives Split on Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 05/07/2013 - 4:32pm | Type: Blog

A bitter public fight began on among conservatives on Monday over the cost of immigration reform. The Heritage Foundation released a study on Monday that estimate the bipartisan i ...

Four Additional Hurdles for Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 05/06/2013 - 3:33pm | Type: Blog

Now that the Senate's Gang of Eight has published its immigration proposal, TIME has put together four hurdles to the bill becoming law. Now that the Senate's Gang of E ...

Polls Find Americans are Disengaged from Immigration Debate
Originally Posted: 05/02/2013 - 11:53am | Type: Blog

Fewer than half of Americans are very or fairly closely following the immigration debate. 38 percent have no opinion on the Senate mesaure recently intoduced by the "Gang of Eight." ...

Dozens of May Day Rallies for Immigration Reform Planned Across Country
Originally Posted: 05/01/2013 - 3:41pm | Type: Blog

May Day rallies are planned across the country urging Congress to ease the nation's immigration laws. May Day rallies are planned across the country urging Congress to ease t ...

Sierra Club Endorses Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/30/2013 - 4:45pm | Type: Blog

Why would an environmental organization get involved with immigration reform? What could they possibly have at stake? If Congress passes immigration reform, much of the credit wil ...

Evangelicals Rally for Pathway to Citizenship and Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/24/2013 - 2:31pm | Type: Press

April 23, 2013 Sojo in the News Sarah McHaney ...

Clergy, Social Justice Leaders Cautiously Applaud Gang of 8 Immigration Proposal
Originally Posted: 04/24/2013 - 2:12pm | Type: Press

April 23, 2013 Sojo in the News Mel Fabrikant ...

Is Rejecting a Path to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants Un-Christian?
Originally Posted: 04/24/2013 - 2:07pm | Type: Press

April 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Billy Hallowell ...

Catholic Bishops: Don’t Let Boston Attacks Derail Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/22/2013 - 5:49pm | Type: Blog

Leading U.S. Catholic bishops on Monday denounced efforts to use the Boston Marathon bombings to derail the push for immigration reform, saying it is wrong to brand all immigrants as dangerous and that a revam ...

Evangelicals see promise in immigration proposal
Originally Posted: 04/30/2013 - 1:33pm | Type: Press

April 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Caleb Bell ...

(VIDEO) Evangelicals Take Immigration Reform to Hill: Say Amnesty v. Deportation a 'False Choice'
Originally Posted: 04/19/2013 - 12:48pm | Type: Blog

Hours after Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration bill dropped early Wednesday, evangelical leaders from across the country gathered at the Capitol to raise their voices for comprehensive immigration reform. ...

Evangelicals Descend on Capitol Hill to Push Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 11:05am | Type: Press

April 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Napp Nazworth ...

Evangelicals Become Unlikely Supporters Of Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 10:32am | Type: Press

April 17, 2013 Sojo in the News David Welna ...

Evangelicals Try To Soften Hearts On Overhauling Immigration
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 1:46pm | Type: Press

April 15, 2013 Sojo in the News John Burnett ...

Loving My Own Life Means Sharing It With Others
Originally Posted: 04/15/2013 - 11:44am | Type: Blog

After a bit of reflection, I came to see that loving my own life really does imply that I want to share it with others. Many of the great Christian thinkers throughout our history ...

Immigration reform gets personal for evangelicals
Originally Posted: 04/12/2013 - 12:18pm | Type: Press

April 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Adelle M. Banks ...

WATCH: Live Stream of Immigration Reform Rally
Originally Posted: 04/10/2013 - 3:39pm | Type: Blog

Live Stream of Immigration Reform Rally Free desktop streaming application by Ustream Do Not Display ...

The Crossroads of Outreach and Immigration
Originally Posted: 04/05/2013 - 4:41pm | Type: Press

April 3, 2013 Sojo in the News Ryan Hamm ...

The Passion of Christ and the Plight of Our Undocumented Neighbors
Originally Posted: 04/04/2013 - 2:26pm | Type: Blog

While it is impossible to ignore that there are 92 references in Scripture where the word, 'ger' is used, speaking about the stranger in our land and our treatment of these individuals, it is not one ...

Guns and immigration: Tale of two movements
Originally Posted: 04/03/2013 - 3:11pm | Type: Press

April 2, 2013 Sojo in the News Jonathan Capehart ...

Immigration advocates target lawmakers in home districts
Originally Posted: 04/02/2013 - 12:48pm | Type: Press

April 1, 2013 Sojo in the News David Nakarmura ...

South Carolina becomes Republican's immigration reform 'test market'
Originally Posted: 03/27/2013 - 10:15am | Type: Press

March 27, 2013 Sojo in the News Noelle Phillips ...

Evangelicals May Be Key to Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 03/26/2013 - 5:11pm | Type: Press

March 26, 2013 Sojo in the News Caitlin Huey-Burns ...

Evangelical leaders pushing immigration reform
Originally Posted: 03/25/2013 - 11:46am | Type: Press

March 23, 2013 Sojo in the News David Olson ...

Alabama Senator Denies the Moral Responsibility of Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 03/21/2013 - 12:19pm | Type: Blog

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions recently made the claim that there is no “moral or legal responsibility to reward somebody who entered the country [without documentation].” The momentu ...

Evangelicals push immigration reform on the Hill
Originally Posted: 03/21/2013 - 10:17am | Type: Press

March 20, 2013 Sojo in the News Kate Nocera ...

Religious conservatives make moral case for immigration reform
Originally Posted: 03/21/2013 - 10:10am | Type: Press

March 20, 2013 Sojo in the News Rosalind S. Helderman ...

Sen. Paul to Immigrants: US Will Find a Place for You
Originally Posted: 03/19/2013 - 11:25am | Type: Press

March 19, 2013 Sojo in the News CBN News ...

Evangelical Immigration Table Calls for Path to Citizenship in Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 03/19/2013 - 11:09am | Type: Press

March 19, 2013 Sojo in the News Napp Nazworth ...

Evangelical Groups Call for Path to Citizenship in Immigration Overhaul
Originally Posted: 03/19/2013 - 11:02am | Type: Press

March 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Julia Preston ...

Pro-immigration reform group claims ‘sea change’ in favor of legalization among evangelical voters
Originally Posted: 03/19/2013 - 10:58am | Type: Press

March 19, 2013 Sojo in the News Caroline May ...

Evangelicals support path to citizenship
Originally Posted: 03/19/2013 - 10:56am | Type: Press

March 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Erica Werner ...

The Blessings That We Refuse
Originally Posted: 03/15/2013 - 3:31pm | Type: Blog

Immigrants are a blessing, not a curse. They are assets, not deficits. I have learned this the hard way after seven years working with the New York City New Sanctuary Movement. ...

Immigration Reform — Working With Our Neighbors
Originally Posted: 03/15/2013 - 3:14pm | Type: Blog

Since our entire approach to the community is based on building strong, personal connections and relationships across and beyond the typical barriers of income, gender, race, and religion, we’ve become very aw ...

Discipleship and Strangers: A Cup of Cold Water
Originally Posted: 03/15/2013 - 3:05pm | Type: Blog

A cup of cold water is the minimal requirement for what the Scripture calls hospitality or in the original language, xenophilia — love of the stranger. Jesus says that whoever gives a cup of cold water to thes ...

My DACA Story
Originally Posted: 03/15/2013 - 2:39pm | Type: Blog

I remember clearly the day I heard the announcement on deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) as I felt an overwhelming surge of emotions in that one moment. A path to opportunity, however fragile and s ...

Immigration fight turns focus to SC
Originally Posted: 03/14/2013 - 6:28pm | Type: Press

March 13, 2013 Sojo in the News Cameron Joseph ...

Immigration reform advocates target South Carolina
Originally Posted: 03/14/2013 - 6:23pm | Type: Press

March 13, 2013 Sojo in the News Erica Werner ...

Evangelical leaders hopeful after immigration talk with Obama
Originally Posted: 03/13/2013 - 11:09am | Type: Press

March 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Baptist Press ...

Obama Affirms 'Evangelical' Principles for Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 03/12/2013 - 1:06pm | Type: Press

March 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Melissa Steffan ...

Evangelical Leaders Optimistic After Meeting Obama on Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 11:34am | Type: Press

March 9, 2013 Sojo in the News Anugrah Kumar ...