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- Thanks for joining us for Faith Nation.
I'm Jenna Browder.
Antisemitism is on therise around the world.
It's long been a problem in Europe and now
it's spreading to the United States.
In October we saw thedeadliest antisemitic attack
in American history.
- [Reporter] 11 Jews who were worshiping
inside this Pittsburgh synagogue died
when a gunman opened fire.
Police say Robert Bowerstargeted Jews online
and made antisemiticcomments during the shooting.
- It's like a contagious disease that's
always under the surfaceand sometimes it spurs up
into epidemic proportions andthen sometimes it recedes.
- [Reporter] Michael Rydelnikwith the Moody Bible Institute
whose parents both survived the holocaust
is a scholar of antisemitism.
- We thought after theholocaust, most historians
and analysts thought that's the end of it.
We saw how evil it is, it would be over.
And yet, in recent days it'srevived really strongly.
- [Reporter] TheAnti-Defamation League recently
issued a report that showsantisemitic incidents
rose nearly 60% in just oneyear, from 2016 to 2017.
Rydelnik says antisemitismknows no political party
and exists in both extreme fringes.
- Well, I think it's really interesting
that the new antisemitismused to just be on the right,
right wing fascist kindof Nazi kind of ideology,
extreme right.
I don't wanna think allconservatives are like that,
but the extreme right.
Now the extreme lefthas embraced it as well
and so you have twogroups and I think also
the part of the liberal ideology today,
the extreme left, is extremely anti-Israel
and because of that there'sa greater propensity
to persecute Israel, oppressor argue against Israel,
but it's because it's a Jewish state.
It's the Jewish state of Israelthat they're angry about.
- [Reporter] As CBNNews has reported that's
especially prevalent on college campuses
and it's not just here in the West.
Antisemitism is also on the rise in Asia
where there are very few Jews.
- They've never seen aJewish person before,
but there's this idea that Jewish people
are controlling the world,you know, and it was
something that wasprevalent in the Nazi era
and even today in countriesthat you wouldn't expect
that they'd think that.
- [Reporter] And in communitiesyou wouldn't expect it
like this quiet one in Pittsburgh.
- Americans have realizedantisemitism is on the rise,
but what's surprising ishow much it's happening
on America's college campuses.
Paul Strand reports.
- Some folks hear aboutantisemitism here in America
and they tend to blamepeople on the right,
but often it's coming from the left
and sometimes right hereon college campuses.
- The truth is that antisemitism has been
on the rise across the board.
The Anti-Defamation Leaguetalks about how there's been
an uptick, I think it's 57% increase,
but on the university campusesjust in the last year alone,
it's over 80%.
- [Paul] For example, UCLAis taking heat for hosting
the Students for Justice inPalestine Annual Conference
as philanthropist, AdamMilstein, pointed out in a tweet.
Its members use words like,"let's stuff some Jews
in the oven."
"Kill all the Jews, don'thesitate to slash their throats."
Alyza Lewin of the Brandeis Center speaks
of Jewish students afraid towear shirts showing Hebrew.
- Because when they wear Hebrew t-shirts
they feel that it makes them a target.
- Being accosted by otherstudents and calling them
Zionist baby killersand that sort of thing.
- [Paul] Professor DavidBernstein at George Mason
University's Law Schoolwrites about antisemitism.
Some of it comes from MiddleEastern Muslim students
now studying here.
- Antisemitism is commonand unobjectionable
in the Middle East.
Rates of antisemitism in Syria,the Palestine territories,
Jordan, Egypt, are 80% plus.
- [Paul] And the Jews getjudged for their defense
of the Jewish homeland, Israel.
- If you demonize Israel,if you think that Israel
is so awful, that itshould be the one country
singled out for sanctionsand boycotts and all of that
and you say to yourself,well, who's defending
this evil country and notsurprisingly the people
that are most active in defending Israel
on many campuses areJews, so there must be
something wrong with the Jews.
- [Paul] Lewin says people on campus
who say they're justanti-Zionists not anti-Jew
don't understand how crucialZion is to most Jews.
- The special feelingabout Zion, about Israel,
is an integral part of Jewish identity.
It is a deep, there's adeep spiritual, religious
connection to Israel thatpredates the creation
of the modern state of Israel.
- Some folks dream that things like racism
and antisemitism may just fade away
as civilization progresses,but if it's starting
to bubble up on collegecampuses and among the young
maybe it's a dream that hasto be put off for awhile.
Paul Strand, CBN News,
reporting from theGeorge Mason Law School.
- Well, Senator BenSasse recently released
a book called Them, Why We Hate Each Other
and How to Heal.
John Jesop sat down withhim to talk about that
and how the country can come together
when we're divided by beliefs.
- It's very difficult.
If Americans don'tstart with an assumption
about basic facts, howare we gonna be able
to fight back against what China wants
to do to us in the future?
We're headed to an era of cyber warfare
where the Chinese government is going
to be able to create fakeaudio and fake video.
They're gonna drop on the internet stuff
of a politician taking a bribe or somebody
on a conference call wherethey're planning something evil,
republican against democrat ordemocrat against republican,
and if we're addicted to allof that sort of anger centric
view of politics we'resetting ourselves up
to be weak and vulnerable in the face
of future battles thatwe're gonna have with China
about this kinda cyber war.
So, it's really importantfor Christians in particular,
to start with an assumptionabout loving their neighbor
next door to them and then building out
and projecting good things on other people
you're debating beforeyou get to the place
where you actuallyidentify what the lines are
between good and evil.
It's not helpful to startwith all of politics
as good and evil fighting.
- Senator Sasse, how dowe restore credibility
and the sense of trust in someof our public institutions
that have been revered, whether it's
the Supreme Court, whether it's the body
in which you serve, asa member of Congress?
How do we restore somecredibility that has been lost?
- Yeah, so one of thethings we need to do I think
is send different kindsof people to Washington.
The public trust issue youflag is one of the most
important crisis of our time.
Americans have less and less trust
in our institutions, but definitely
that includes governmental institutions
and one of the reasons is because we send
a whole bunch of people to Washington
who plan to be politiciansfor their whole life.
That's not how our founders intended it.
We're supposed to be public servants
who serve the peoplefor a time by going away
from the places where we live.
Fremont, Nebraska, thetown I live in Nebraska,
where I wanna be raisin'my kids is where I wanna,
Lord willing, die.
We bought cemetery plots there.
I don't wanna move to Washington, DC
and become a lobbyist.
Right now, too many peoplego to DC and they think
that Washington is thecenter of the world.
Washington should be a servant community
for the place where allof your viewers live
'cause every community where they live
should be the center of the world
'cause that's wherethey're raisin' their kids,
where they're helpin' carpoolaround their grandkids
and where their lovin' their neighbor.
That's the center of the world
and Washington shouldbe a servant community
for those places.
- I love that.
Senator Sasse, I wannaget to the last part
of the title of your book, How to Heal.
A lot of people point to our leadership
and say that our leadership lead the way
when it comes to civility and healing,
but I'm curious for you, someone who works
in a very divided body and avery divided partisan city,
what do you think is the best solution
toward healing the brokenness and healing
the incivility in thesociety in which we live?
- So, there's a lot that hasto be healed in Washington.
That's for sure and politicalleaders should lead,
but in America we've neverthought that politicians
are the center of our life.
George Washington refused to be king
when there was a chance for him to do that
after the Revolutionary War.
He refused a chance tobecome the essentially
lifetime president.
He wanted to go back to Mt. Vernon
and we need our politiciansto wanna go back
to where they're from becausewhere your viewers live
are the kind of places where moms and dads
and Kiwanis and Rotary Club members
and little league coachesand volunteer firemen
and teachers and nursesand especially pastors
and people who are deacons and elders
at their local congregations, those places
are the places whereyou first live to love
a neighbor who lives next door to you.
When you model that kind of love next door
you can expand into other communities
beyond your county and beyond your state.
Washington is not gonna lead on this.
We're gonna need people to lead the places
where they actually liveand one big piece of this
is gonna be about comingup with new habits
for rootedness andmindfulness and presence
even in a digital agethat constantly tempts
by our phones to believe thereally interesting place,
the important place, issomewhere far from where
you live today.
Actually, God's probablycalling you to live
mostly right now, theordinary, sometimes boring life
which we live on our street'cause those are the places
where people have skinned knees and where
they're lonely and wherethere's some shut-in
who needs you to take them a casserole.
That's probably yourordinary calling today.
We need to do more ofthat love of neighbor.
- Senator Sasse, thankyou so much for your time.
We really appreciate it.- Thank you John.
- [Reporter] When wecome back we'll bring you
the story of the neo Nazi and the woman
who opened his eyes to the horrors
of racism in America.
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- Years of abuse led a Brooklynman in search of strength.
He found it in the NationalSocialist Movement,
a Nazi group, here in the United States.
He quickly became second in command,
but as Caitlin Burkereports, he harbored a secret
and her name was Catherine Boone.
- [Reporter] Duke Schneider learned early
that weakness wasn't anoption if he hoped to survive.
- My father left when I was very young.
He could no longer endureliving with my mother
who was psychotic and atotal and complete neurotic.
- After years of abuse Duke had one focus,
becoming strong enoughthat no one could hurt him.
That led to two things,
a wrestling career combinedwith a Nazi fascination.
Duke saw Nazis as ArianSupermen, projecting strength
and invincibility and on theJames Madison High School
wrestling team Dukedeveloped his own strength
beating opponent after opponent.
- I had achieved somethingthat I had always wanted
as a child, to be so physically tough
that I could not only endurethe beatings I was getting,
but that I could make a verydevastating comeback as well.
- [Caitlin] Duke eventually left the ring
and went into the personalsecurity business.
That's when he met Catherine Boone.
- What stood out mostabout Catherine's case was
the simple fact that shewas a woman who was living
in mortal fear and Iidentified with that fear.
I knew what it was liketo be afraid and have
nobody to protect me whatsoever.
- [Caitlin] Catherine wanted a body guard
because her ex-husbandwas fresh out of prison
and reportedly looking for her.
Duke took the job, waived his usual fee
and suggested Catherinemove into his spare bedroom.
- I had no idea whomight have gotten a bead
on where she was living.
Now, I could look afterher during the day,
but I was working at night.
Most crimes are committed at night,
so if anybody was lookingfor her I was quite sure
they would come looking for her at night.
- Where I felt safe,nobody's gonna come in here
and bother me or hurt me.
- [Caitlin] Then, one day on a public bus
a group of white supremacists came at her.
- They was in the back talkin' 'bout me
'cause they were lookin'at me and they were
tryin' to get, they were confrontin' me,
say you in the wrong neighborhood.
- [Caitlin] Duke was furious and came up
with a plan to find them.
He figured if he could infiltratea neo Nazi organization
he could eventually shut them down.
- And I joined theNational Socialist Movement
that very week.
- [Caitlin] Things quickly went downhill.
- What happened was I gotinvolved with the intentions
that I had predominantlyas an infiltrator,
but then the intoxicationof them moving me
up the ladder on aperpetual basis, that was
almost like a childhood dream.
- [Caitlin] For sevenyears Schneider climbed
the movement's ranks whileplaying a double life,
a Nazi by day who camehome to an African American
roommate each night.
- As long as we kept thingson a professional level
I didn't see any kind of a conflict.
- [Caitlin] Concernedand frightened Catherine
took her fears to God.
- I just prayed for him, thathe'd get outta there safe,
that nothin' happens tohim, that he'd make it home.
- [Caitlin] Catherine said God answered
in an unexpected way.
- He gave him somethin'that, to think about.
- [Caitlin] Doctors diagnosedDuke with thyroid cancer.
- It was the worst fear of my entire life.
I feared death.
I figured you know, cancer is definitely
a death sentence.
- [Caitlin] Seeing Duke'sdistress a family member
introduced him to Pastor Michael Beck.
- He was most concerned about
what he was facing,
wasn't ready to die, didn't wanna die
and was open and readyfor God's assistance.
- [Caitlin] Before prayingwith him Pastor Beck
asked Duke to take a weekto really examine his life
and confess his sins to God.
Duke not only took thatadvice, he went further,
confessing to Pastor Beckand the entire church.
- I said, I'm confessing this to you now
because God is already aware of it.
I've already prayed for his forgiveness
and now I'm asking youall for your forgiveness.
- [Caitlin] Surgery toremove the cancer came next
and before doctors rolledhim away Catherine told Duke,
God made it clear he would survive.
She also confessed that she'dloved Duke since day one.
- I was very happy.
I was smilin' from ear to ear.
- [Caitlin] Doctorsremoved an eight inch tumor
from Duke's throat andreported that miraculously
no trace of cancer remained.
After receiving a clean bill of health,
complete with no chemoor any other treatment,
Duke asked Catherine to marry him.
He then made a few phone calls.
- And, I called CommanderJeff Schoep and he was
the only one above me in this organization
and I had a talk with himon the phone and I told him,
I said, Commander, I'mresigning my commission
at this time effective immediately.
- [Caitlin] Duke told theCommander of the National
Socialist Movement thathe'd been miraculously
healed from cancer, wasmarrying a black woman
and had committed his life to Jesus.
After breaking those racist Nazi ties
and beginning a new life with Catherine
Duke proved just how muchGod has changed his outlook,
working for a time as the security guard
at a local synagogue.
Caitlin Burke, CBN News,Brooklyn, New York.
- [Reporter] When we comeback we'll take a look
at how the faith communityis working to bring
a reconciliation in areaswith big racial divides.
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- [Narrator] To make theworld a better place.
- Literally, we felt the earth shaking.
- [Narrator] The ChristianBroadcasting Network presents
To Life, How Israeli Volunteersare Changing the World.
- This film needs to be seen by everyone.
- I was in tears.
- [Narrator] Now, you can ownthe inspiring documentary,
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- There is blood on our hands if we know
and we walk away.
- I'm so grateful that this film was made.
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- Well, throughout historythe church has often been
the driving force behind social change.
Community driven congregations are still
playing a big role in that.
Amber Strong reports from Indianapolis
where one program is working with churches
to build a bridge betweenneighborhoods and law enforcement.
- Can we all get along?
Can we get along?
- Division between policeand certain communities
is nothing new and whilemany enjoy an amicable
relationship with lawenforcement, social media
shines a light on thedivision and broken trust.
But, in Indianapolis membersof the faith community
and law enforcement hopeto exchange vantage points
and walk a mile in each other's shoes.
All thanks to a program called One Cop.
- The one thing that'sreally unique and special
about One Cop is that it's really focused
on beat police officers.
These are the people who,if they're doing their
job correctly, are literallywalking up and down the block.
- And, it's something thiscommunity sees most every day.
What they don't usually seeis a nun in a police car
or police officers seatedin pews during the week.
Church leaders also get to try their hand
at being officers facing the challenge
of split second decisions.
The team in One Cop believeschurches are uniquely
positioned to breakdown any walls existing
between the police and thosethey are sworn to protect.
- To walk the streets Ithink, with a police officer
would be an eye opening experience.
- Pastor Jim Wrightjumped at the opportunity
to be a liaison and perhaps more.
- Introducing them tothe community and being
a host site for the community would be
a really good way ofconnecting the community
with the police officerswith us as the bridge.
And then, Lord willing,opening up the door
to share the gospel.
- Local law enforcement are also eager
to open doors and makea good first impression.
If you commit a crime here in Indianapolis
you're likely to wind up hereat the Marion County Jail
where you'll be greeted by a member
of the Sheriff's Department.
Well, local law enforcementare hoping to change all that
and build a relationshipwith the community
before they wind up in jail.
Marion County Sheriff,John Layton, hopes renewing
relationships can help cutdown on counterproductive codes
like no snitching.
He also wants to create andbuild levels of respect.
- You shouldn't have to fear a uniform,
ever fear a uniform,but please respect it.
- While Layton blamessocial media for the growing
antagonism he quickly admitsmistakes have been made.
- There are tens ofthousands of police officers
across the United States.
Every now and then one steps outta line.
Sometimes it's a mistake of the head,
sometimes a mistake of the heart.
It's such a minusculepercentage of the police
that are out there everyday dodgin' bullets
instead of sendin' 'em.
- Put your hand behind your back.
- Even a few however,can deepen the divide.
A 17 year old lay prone on the pavement
as the shots continued,16 rounds in 14 seconds.
The aftermath captured ingraphic video and streamed
live on Facebook by the man's girlfriend.
In Texas for example, tensions remain high
after Dallas police officer, Amber Geiger,
shot and killed 26 year old faith leader,
Bolton John, inside his apartment.
Community leaders therequestion why Geiger
was able to stay on the job for so long
after the shooting.
Indianapolis crimereporter, Steve Jefferson,
points out if and whenincidents like this happen
transparency is important.
He's seen it work so far in Indy.
- The ongoing relationshipwhich still needs
a lotta work, you know, has kept things
from being explosive here in our city.
- He credits programslike One Cop and other
faith based initiatives forhelping calm things down.
Prevention is key and Jefferson adds
that training goes a long way.
- Our department here inIndianapolis now actually
teaches officers not to let their biases
impact their work on the street.
We all expect to be treated a certain way
by the police and I think them knowing
how to de-escalate asituation, whether it be
a traffic stop, whether it be trying to ID
a young black man whoyou think is trespassing.
- As a deacon himself, Jefferson knows
the church can play a majorrole in building relationships.
- What pastors need todo is take advantage
of their captive audiencebecause if they can get
the message to the parents of the children
then the children get themessage from the parents.
- Sheriff Layton is optimisticbecause mutual respect
and basically living by the Golden Rule
will successfully bringchurches, the community
and law enforcement together.
- We can start respect again.
Not just for the uniform,but for the people
in those churches.
- Amber Strong, CBN News in Indianapolis.
- In 2016, Charlotte,North Carolina was a city
that erupted in violent protestsafter the shooting death
of a black man by a police officer.
Now the city is becominga picture of racial unity.
One reason, two churchcongregations decided
to bridge the divide andcome together as one.
Charlene Aaron brings us this story.
- North Carolina's RefugeChurch, House of Refuge,
came up with a plan tohelp change Charlotte's
reputation from one of racial unrest
to one of brotherly love.
Pastors Jay Stewart andDerrick Hawkins felt
the best way to bringblacks and whites together
started with worship.
The result, this firstservice of the newly blended
Refuge Church.
Pastor Stewart leads the main campus
of the multi site church.
- The cry of our heart hasalways been for revival.
The Lord cannot bring theoutpouring of the Holy Spirit
unless there's real unity.
- Hawkins pastors the 200member House of Refuge
in Greensboro, which recentlyjoined the larger group.
Two years ago when Hawkins became pastor,
he reached out to Stewart for advice.
After a series of meetingsthe two men explored
the possibility of becoming one church.
- Nobody was looking for a merger.
I just wanted to helpthis church in Greensboro
to transition well, so we weremeeting on a regular basis
and a year ago, whichwas November of 2015,
while we were meeting Ifelt strongly prompted
by the Holy Spirit to ask them a question.
Have you ever had conversationsabout becoming a campus
of The Refuge?
- We would have meetingsand talk about racism
and what we both had to endure comin' up.
He would share his stories.
I would share my stories.
- The pastors here at TheRefuge say that the announcement
about their merger camejust two days before
violent protests eruptedin the city of Charlotte,
North Carolina after anAfrican American man was
killed at the hands of police.
- When I was sitting in myhome watching the news coverage
of what was happening inCharlotte, that God wanted
to write a better story,that God set the timing
of this merger.
- You know, I know thatAfrican American community
are hurtin', they're cryin' out.
We just wanted to be avoice, a vehicle of change
in our own city, in our own community,
say hey, it doesn't have to be this way.
- Bishop William and DarleneAllen are the founding
members of the House of Refuge.
During the process of appointing Hawkins
as new pastor the talks of a merger began.
- What this says to me is God has given us
an opportunity to let the baggage go
and I believe this mergeris going to present
that opportunity for many of us to heal
from past hurt, all races.
- The plan to holdregular combined services
will help members get to know one another
and work toward racial healing.
- I just believe that whatwe're doing is so needed
to replicate what the Lord wants to do
in the kingdom of God.
- There's a generationthat wants to be valued
and I just saw it asan opportunity to say,
you matter to God, you matter to us
and God has a plan for your life.
- Members are excitedabout working together.
- I think it just declarestruth in the midst
of a lot of lies that thereis a church and she is
taking her place and iscommitted to unity and love.
- With what we're goin'through as a nation
and especially here inCharlotte, I think that it just
speaks of the unity of the kingdom of God
and just gives us a realpicture of what heaven's
gonna be like.
- Anthony White saysseeing blacks and whites
worshiping together here is long overdue.
- Integration should never be forced.
It should be led by the Spirit of the Lord
and the church has anexample to model that today.
- Meanwhile, PastorsStewart and Hawkins admit
that while comingtogether hasn't been easy
the result is well worth it.
- We knew that the staffwas facin' challenges,
our church was facin'challenges, but we knew
what God told us and wejust stuck, you know, stuck
to what the Lord said, what we felt like
the Holy Spirit was leading us.
- There were people sitting in the wings
we know that are stillhoping that this fails,
that this doesn't work,for whatever reason,
but we know it's gonna work.
Because listen, we don'tsee black and white.
Under the blood of Jesus everything's red.
- Charlene Aaron, CBN News,Kannapolis, North Carolina.
- And that is going todo it for Faith Nation.
We'll see you right backhere again tomorrow.
