Immigration

GORDON, Texas (BP) – Albert Oliveira, pastor of First Baptist Church of Gordon, Texas, voluntarily returned to his birth country of Brazil Nov. 9 after a visa rule change and yearslong processing backlog blocked him from renewing his legal status.

WASHINGTON (BP) – Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission trustees named an interim president, voted to form a task force to study biblical immigration and unveiled a new Psalm 139 initiative during their meeting Sept. 16-17.

I work with refugees – people with backgrounds like mine – all the time. So, I know what it’s like to be misunderstood.

DALLAS (BP) – Leaders of 13 Southern Baptist ethnic groups have approved a joint statement on immigration seeking religious liberty protections, compassion without demonization and enforcement options including fines or other penalties in lieu of deportation.

BALTIMORE, Md. (BP) – Carlos Sanchez, a law-abiding Venezuelan Christian who came to the U.S. on a student visa and later gained temporary protected status (TPS), believed the 2024 presidential elections were overdramatized.

MIAMI (BP) – They are pastors, deacons, and other clergy, actively working among the 500 Haitian churches in the Southern Baptist Convention – at least for another four weeks. They are active ministers and members of the 3,500 Hispanic congregations -- Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Cubans – that have united with the SBC.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (RNS) — Back in December, a group of migrants, released just hours before from detention centers or Customs and Border Protection processing, sat ready to participate in Wednesday night worship in the sanctuary of Iglesia Bautista West Brownsville, a Southern Baptist congregation near the U.S.-Mexico border.

MIAMI (BP) – Pastor Keny Felix describes a whirlwind.

SEATTLE (BP) – A federal judge in Seattle issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend refugee admissions, saying the president likely exceeded his authority.

My father-in-law prays for everyone who comes to his house. Missionaries are like that.