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I'm Wendy Griffith.
In Washington, pressureis building as lawmakers
race to find a way to provide aid
for the humanitarian crisis on the border.
The White House is warning that it's money
will run out in a matter of days
and lawmakers leave tomorrowfor their July 4th recess.
The evangelical immigrationtable is one group
that's pushing for this aid.
Their leaders visited theborder in El Paso last weekend
and found that the President'snew Remain in Mexico policy
is sending thousands ofimmigrants back over the border.
Heather Sells has the story.
- For months, churches in El Paso
have received hundreds of immigrants daily
but now all that is changing
and their numbers havedropped drastically.
Since October, border patrol officers here
have apprehended more than120,000 adults and children,
a more than 1,000% increaseover the past year.
Upon their release,churches here have tried
to fill the gap, tiny El Elyon,
a neighborhood congregation hascared for 70 people a night.
- We used to do this everysingle day, seven days a week.
- [Heather] Pastor Maribelshowed us pictures of families
as they arrived, received food, clothing,
shelter and prayer.
Most usually stay just one night
then caught a bus or flew out the city
to connect with family elsewhere.
- I never realize how far this would go
but I was always depending on the Lord
and saying Lord, whatdo you want me to do?
It's a multitude of people that need us.
- [Heather] Church leaders in El Paso
believe President Trump'snew Remain in Mexico policy
is behind the drop in numbers.
Not only do asylum seekers goback to wait on court dates,
Mexican police also deter immigrants
from crossing into Mexicoor seeking to enter the U.S.
- It's uncertain yet exactly why that is,
maybe they're beingreleased somewhere else,
certainly more are beingreleased back into Mexico
which is really gonna be probablya lot more of a challenge.
- [Heather] This past week, leaders
from the Evangelical Immigration Table
came to hear from border patrol officers
and tour one of the last church shelters
still open in El Paso.
- What we know about thissituation is that it's fluent.
It is changing all the time,
could shift back, we'll see what happens.
- [Heather] Sami Dipasquale
who leads a Christiancommunity center here
says churches are pivotingto support their counterparts
in the city of Jaurez, Mexico.
Evangelical leaders alsovisited a Methodist shelter
in Jaurez.
While there's a growing coalition
of evangelical churcheshere, it's not enough
to care for the thousandsof asylum seekers
waiting on a U.S. hearing.
- So they're waiting inMexico, the shelters are full,
they don't have authorization to work
while they're in Mexico.
- [Heather] World Relief's Matt Soerens
says legal help like hisorganization provides
is also difficult to find in Mexico.
That could mean greaternumbers will face deportation.
- They have a well foundedfear of persecution
under the Refugees Act of 1980
they should be allowed to stay
but the burden is on them to prove that
and that could be adifficult thing to prove.
- [Heather] Pastor Maribel says El Elyon
is ready to receive migrantsagain should it be needed.
And she won't forget the stories, courage
and faith of those she helped.
- They're very humblepeople, hard working people.
They're people very loyal,
once you have the chance tosit down with one of them
and listen, it will break your heart.
It will break your heart,it will change your mind,
the way that we think of them.
- [Heather] Experts sayasylum courts in El Paso
reject most cases but forthese desperate people
living in the U.S. remainsa dream worth fighting for.
Reporting in El Paso,Heather Sells, CBN News.
- And Heather's with us now.
Heather this group, theEvangelical Immigration Table,
who are they, first of all
and how are they involvedin this border debate?
- Right, they're low keybut they're high powered
and it's everyone from Southern Baptist
to Assemblies of God,World Relief, World Vision,
Bethany Christian Services,a lot of really interesting
and high powereddenominations and ministries.
- The who's who.- Yes and they are actively
involved in Washington,they have been advocating
for immigrants for a number of years now
but they just sent aletter to the President
to Speaker Pelosi andLeader McConnell today
saying please fund, we need to humanely
provide for these children in detention.
- So what's the latestwhether the law makers
will be able to pass a border aid plan.
I mean, tomorrow they leavefor their July 4th recess,
do you think they'll get it done?
- It is a stalemate right now.
Leader McConnell is saying he's not
gonna accept House amendments,
the House is expectedto vote this afternoon
but I think it's gonna be interesting
if they do not act today or tomorrow,
how are they gonna facetheir constituents,
people seeing theseimages from the border.
I don't know, Wendy, no one really knows
what's gonna happen in the next two days.
- Well, you were there,you saw it firsthand.
You saw stuff that we'renot even able to show.
What's your sense of how urgently
this border funding is needed?
- Well, it's interestingbecause of course they did not,
border patrol, customs did not allow us
into these processing centers,these detention facilities
and that's one of the issues
but I was with borderpatrol for an entire day
and they are, because theydon't have enough funding,
the border patrol agentsare the ones who are caring
for these immigrants and theirstations are overflowing.
And so from that perspectiveI know that the money
is urgently needed.
- In the church, I mean, that tiny church
helping like 70 families
a night.- Right, right.
They are, what's happeningis when ICE, immigrations
and customs enforcementfinishes with these families,
they drop them off at church shelters
and now there's more of aburden on the Mexico churches.
So we're gonna put up alink for you, it's Amazon
and you, if people want to helpfund these church shelters,
they can go on to Amazon andbuy diapers, underwear, food,
you name it and helpthese church shelters out.
- [Wendy] 'Cause let'sface it, the government's
not gonna be able to do it all.
- Absolutely.
- [Wendy] They could neverdo it all in a crisis
and the churches are the ones,thank you so much, Heather,
I appreciate that.- You're welcome.
- Well, Democratic presidentialcandidates squared off
in their first debateWednesday night in Miami.
10 of the candidatesvied for the attention
in the crowded race totake on President Trump.
Charlene Aaron has a look atwhere some of the candidates
stood on the issues likeimmigration, foreign policy
and abortion, as well as what to expect
for tonight's debate.
Charlene, this is getting pretty hot.
- It is getting pretty hot, Wendy.
The Democratic candidatestook shots at each other
on immigration and recent calls
to decriminalize illegal border crossings.
The issue of abortionand keeping Roe v Wade
also a major talking point, take a look.
- The reason that they'reseparating these little children
from their families is thatthey're using section 1325
of that act which criminalizescoming across the border
to incarcerate the parentsand then separate them.
Some of us on this stage havecalled to end that section,
to terminate it, some likeCongressman O'Rourke have not.
- You're looking at justone small part of this,
I'm talking about a comprehensive rewrite
of our immigration laws.
- That's not important.
- If you did your homeworkon this issue you would know.
- I would make certainthat every woman has access
to the full range ofreproductive healthcare services
and that includes birthcontrol, it includes abortion,
it includes everything for a woman.
- And Tulsi Gabbard, one ofthe lesser known candidates
caught the attention ofmany for her criticism
of the Trump administration'sactions on Iran.
- This president andhis chicken hawk cabinet
have led us to the brink of war with Iran.
I served in the war in Iraq,
at the height of the war in 2005.
The American people needto understand that this war
with Iran would be far more devastating.
- [Charlene] And formervice president, Joe Biden
will take the stage withtop rival Bernie Sanders
and eight other candidates inthis second debate tonight.
CBN News Political ChiefAnalyst, David Brody
says it will interesting tosee how many of the candidates
will take on Biden who istheir early front runner.
- There is a bit of DonaldTrump, if you will in that,
the chutzpah factorwhen it comes to Biden.
I think we'll see that on stage tonight
if he gets attacked, the question is
how much will he get attacked?
I think Bernie Sanders is gonnago after him a little bit.
Kamala Harris might aswell on the race issue.
We'll have to wait and see.
- And tonight's debate isset for 9 p.m. on NBC, Wendy.
- We'll have to wait and see for sure.
Thanks Charlene.- Definitely.
- Well, the man the Democratsare hoping to replace,
President Trump arrived in Japan today
for the annual Group of 20 summit.
Leading topics on the agendainclude tensions with Iran,
climate change andinternational trade disputes.
China says it intends to defend itself
against more U.S. moves topenalize it over trade practices.
And Japan's Prime Ministeronce to make this summit
all about the environmentincluding climate change.
And we'll have more on this story
and others on Faith Nation this evening.
You can watch it right hereon the CBN News Channel.
- Well, a case of freespeech stifled popular author
and expert on Islam in theMiddle East, Raymond Ibrahim,
is the latest victim
of politically correct speech on campus,
this time at the U.S. Army War College.
Ibrahim is the author of thebook, Sword and Scimitar,
Fourteen Centuries of WarBetween Islam and the West.
The college postponed his lecture
after the Egyptian-Americanwas labeled an Islamaphobe
who's rhetoric would quote,"foster white nationalism
and war crimes againstMuslims in the military."
On tonight's episode of the Global Lane,
Ibrahim discusses how the Council
on American-IslamicRelations and Mpower Change
convince the tax payer funded institution
to cancel his scheduled speech.
- CAIR sent out a hysterical scream
in the guise of a pressrelease and also Linda Sarsour,
her group MPower Change,she created this petition,
even more hysterical andso the long and short
of these press release andthe petition is that I,
a man of 100% Egyptianancestry and heritage
am a racist and a white nationalist
and that the U.S. Armyalready has a big problem
with racism and white nationalism
and that if they give me, ifthey go ahead with the talk,
I am going to radicalizethe American military
to the point they'regonna go on the street
and start killing Muslims.
- Wow, watch more of RaymondIbrahim on the Global Lane.
It's on the CBN Newschannel,that's tonight at 9:30 Eastern.
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- Abortion statistics in theblack community are alarming.
And many pro-life advocates believe
that trend can be traced to the founder
of what would become Planned Parenthood.
More than 100 years ago, MargaretSanger encouraged abortion
and sterilization to limitthe size of black families.
For the most part manyAfrican American churches
have been silent on abortion.
Now one of the country'slargest black denominations
is speaking out.
Charlene Aaron has the story.
- According to U.S. Census data,
blacks make up only 13%of the U.S. population,
yet more than 30% of abortedbabies are from black mothers.
- It is the number one killerof all African-Americans
in the nation.
You can add cancer, you can add AIDs,
you can add car accidents,homicides, crime, shooting,
name the gambit and put those together
and it will not equal the amount of lives
that we lose to abortion.
- [Charlene] It is an issue Charles Blake,
the presiding bishop ofthe Church of God in Christ
also know as COGIC, hasspoken out about in the past.
- Black woman according to the statistics
are almost four times aslikely to have an abortion
as the white women.
And almost 65 of thosewho have had abortions
have never been married.
You're killing a human being.
It's a human being fromthe moment it's conceived.
- [Charlene] With more thansix and a half million members
worldwide, COGIC is working
with the Pro-life Human Coalition Network
to help black woman choose life.
They call it the Family Life Campaign
which challenges church membersto personally take action
in fighting for the unborn.
COGIC members are encouragedto act in various ways,
such as counselingoutside abortion clinics
or working with expectantmothers inside pregnancy centers.
Campaign Vice President Lesley Monet says
this mission is vital to the survival
of both the black familyand the black church.
- We placed this at the centerof our missions department
where we are telling churches,hey this is what we need
to be grilling our children,our parishioners on,
we need to make surethat they're pro-life,
we need to make sure childrenare being taken care of
in uterine and outside.
- [Charlene] Monet says churches,
specifically African American churches
have been silent onabortion for far too long
which is why COGIC isstepping up to the plate.
- I think one of the reasonsis because we are afraid
to confront that issue in our church
because we have been apart of that issue.
There are two out of four womenin church are post aborted.
And so I think it's aruffling of feathers,
a great taboo, a secret, a darkness
that people don't wanna shed light on
but we must shed the light on this issue.
- [Charlene] In the meantimeCOGIC hopes other denominations
will join in the fight tomake abortion unthinkable
and unavailable in theblack community and beyond.
Charlene Aaron, CBN News.
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- [Wendy] Still ahead a human rights group
uncovers hundreds ofpublic executions sites
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- A South Korea based grouphas uncovered more than
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who is speaking out on behalf
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where we show you what'shappening in the world
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U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo
said the Trump administration
is ready to resume talkswith communist North Korea
at a moment's notice if theregime signaled a willingness
to discuss denuclearizationof the peninsula.
Talks between our twonations, by the way, stalled
following Trump's secondmeeting with Kim Jong-un
in Vietnam.
Meanwhile, testimonies from more
than 600 North Korean defectors
claim the government routinelycarries out public executions
often at river banks,markets or in schools.
The South Korea basedTransitional Justice Working Group
released a map showing dozens of locations
where North Koreans werereportedly publicly executed
for crimes related to theft,violence and politics.
North Korea is one theworst human rights violators
in the world.
Christians face persecutionand severe punishment
for worshiping outsidestate controlled churches.
Joining me is Tony Perkinsthe newly appointed chair
of the bipartisan U.S. Commission
on International Religious Freedom.
Tony, thank you so muchfor coming on the show
and congratulations on your appointment.
There are as you know, severalstate sanctioned churches
in North Korea but these arejust show churches, right?
- Yeah, they're nothingmore than a facade.
Look, North Korea is oneof the worst countries
in the world when it comesto religious freedom.
I mean, look, repressivegovernments hate religious freedom.
They're fearful of theirpeople having the ability
to express their faith becausethere is no moral foundation
for a repressive governmentand so they're very concerned
about religious freedom and the tyranny,
the repression that we see in North Korea
is again, it's unparalleled.
- What price does a North Korean pay
for following Jesus Christ?
- Well, we know that there arecamps, concentration camps,
if you will, in North Koreawhere political prisoners,
Christians we know, bestestimate's a very closed country
but maybe 50,000 of them are Christians.
They are singled out for harsh treatment
for torture forced hard labor.
And there is in North Koreait's more of a worship
of the ruling family and so no religion
of any sort is tolerated andit's a very repressed regime
and hopeful that the engagementby this administration
which is all in when itcomes to religious freedom
around the globe, that byengaging in these conversations
and negotiations with North Korea
that possibly the door might be opened.
The North Korean peopleclearly have been locked away
from the rest of the world
but if they get a glimpse ofwhat true freedom is like,
maybe, maybe, we could seefreedom coming to North Korea
in the future.
- Yeah, Tony, talk tothat very specific point.
As you know, talksbetween our two countries
have so far focused ontrade and denuclearization.
Why isn't human rightsand religious freedom
apart of those discussions?
- Well, I actually think they have been.
It's not been publicizedmuch but I know that
in the first meeting the President had
that those issues did comeup, obviously at the top
is the denuclearization of the peninsula
that's the top priority.
But those other issues havefactored in to the conversation.
- As I mentioned, you are the new chair
of the U.S. Commission onInternational Religious Freedom,
Tony, what's going to be yourfocus during your tenure?
- Well, there is a lothappening around the world.
We're seeing unprecedentedlevels of persecution
of people of faith.
Christians being probablythe largest religious group
that is persecuted butthen we look at China,
we have the weaker Muslims
that are being put intoconcentration camps.
Somewhere between 80, 800,000to two million of them.
We see the Middle East beingvery unsettled right now
but here's the good news, George.
What we're seeing happenand because of the focus
of this administration, many countries
are paying attentionnow to religious freedom
or at least the freedom ofworship in their country.
So I'm engaging with leadersat the highest levels
all around the worldin moving them forward
toward recognizing thatfundamental human right
of religious freedom, meaningthe ability to worship
as you please, not to worship,to change your religion.
That's a fundamentalright of every human being
and this administration, this commission
is advancing that around the world.
- Are there any areas ofthe world that you hope
during your time as chairto draw attention to?
- I do, I think there's greatpromise in Egypt right now.
I think President el-Sisi,I've met with him twice.
He's certainly trying to move his country
at somewhat outside ofCairo, it's very difficult.
There are threats topeople of faith there.
We're working with the State Department
to provide more securityto places of worship.
But also I'm very concerned about
what's happening in Nigeria.
That country, I thinkcould be another Rwanda
where you have genocide whereyou have right now violence
taking place betweenMuslims and Christians
and in fact, I've adoptedas a prisoner of conscience,
Leah Sarabou who is a 15 year old girl
who was kidnapped byBoko Haram and being held
as a prisoner.
And so I hope to bring greater attention
to what's happening in Nigeria as well.
- Okay, terrific, we'llhave to leave it there.
Tony, thank you so muchand congratulations
on your new position.
- Thank you very much.
- You're most welcome.
Well, folks that is it for today's edition
of World Beat until next time,goodbye and God bless you.
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