Tuesday, August 2, 2016

National Public Radio recently interviewed Matt Soerens, US Director of Church Mobilization for the faith-based nonprofit World Relief, about evangelical churches' role in resettling Syrian refugees in the US. (Soerens is the co-author of Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis, which emphasizes a Christian view of the current world refugee crisis).

Here's a short excerpt from the interview, of Soerens' comments on Trump:

"He is saying things about refugees that are very different than any other Republican president has ever said and, I think, are very different than what the Scriptures teach us, which is that each person, including every refugee, is made in the image of God with incredible potential and with inherent human dignity. And if we're going to respect life - and, again, that's a value for a lot of evangelical Christians from womb to tomb, we would say - then we need to be concerned about the lives of refugees as well."

-JKoh

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/08/npr-with-matt-soerens-on-evangelical-churches-and-syrian-refugees.html