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Jose Chicas speaks to the media outside St. John s Missionary Baptist Church in North Carolina, January 2021. | Screenshot: ABC 11 Jose Chicas spent the last three years hiding from Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Durham, North Carolina, church. He left the building on Jan. 22 after President Joe Biden signed an executive order prohibiting all deportations of illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States before Nov. 1, 2020, except for national security reasons. “God gave the victory today,” he told a crowd outside the church. Then he returned home for the first time in over 1,300 days. On Inauguration Day, Biden took several actions related to immigration, including a reversal of former President Donald Trump s executive order that called for stricter immigration enforcement. Homeland Security also issued a memo to pause certain deportations for 100 days. During that time, the department has been directed to review policies and practices concerning ....
Wycliffe Bible Translators The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for Bible translation efforts worldwide, but Wycliffe Bible Translators USA has pressed on with its mission despite the challenges. For 79 years, Wycliffe has led the effort to translate the Bible into every language. Currently, the group and its partners are at work on over 2,700 translation projects in 167 countries, CEO John Chesnut said. Even so, 1.5 billion people still don’t have a Bible translation in their own language. Many of the countries in which Wycliffe works have poor healthcare, non-unified governments and limited communication technologies. The pandemic has also impeded Wycliffe’s efforts to work with people who speak languages without a Bible translation. ....
Unsplash/MChe Lee Critical race theory has infiltrated Christian private schools and parents aren’t speaking up because they’re afraid, said one education activist. Elana Yaron Fishbein started an organization called “No Left Turn in Education” to help parents take the lead in the education of their children and to show people who oppose critical race theory that they have allies. Among its slogans is “education, not indoctrination.” In only a few months since its beginning in August 2020, her Facebook group grew dramatically. Today, her group has chapters in 18 states. “Many parents say ‘how can you be against it (CRT)?’ until you open it and see what’s in it. It’s the exact opposite [of what it says,]” said Fishbein to The Christian Post. ....
A man prays in Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shusha, Azerbaijan after it was partly destroyed by shelling in October 2020. | Christian Solidarity International A new report by International Christian Concern accuses Muslim-majority Turkey and Azerbaijan of having an intent to commit “genocide” when they launched a weeks-long military offensive in an ethnic Armenian territory last year. ICC, a U.S.-based advocacy organization, published the new report “The Anatomy of Genocide: Karabakh s Forty-Four Day War” last Friday. The report asserts that the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (known as the Republic of Artsakh in Armenia), which lasted from September until November 2020, had strong religious freedom concerns that should alarm human rights advocates and governments worldwide. ....
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence applaud U.S. President Donald Trump at the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. | Getty Images/Doug Mills-Pool People who opposed the impeachment of President Donald Trump because of their pro-life beliefs sold American democracy âdown the river,â House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi implied on a recent podcast with Hillary Clinton. Pelosi, 80, was a guest on an episode of the former first ladyâs iHeartRadio podcast âYou and Me Bothâ that aired Monday. The two Democrats discussed the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters and Trumpâs degree of responsibility for the violent riot. ....