WASHINGTON — Prominent Southern Baptists Danny Akin and Ed Stetzer are among 100 evangelical leaders who signed a letter published in a full page ad in The Washington Post on Feb. 8 opposing President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees.
The letter expressed “deep concern” about the ban, adding, “Our care for the oppressed and suffering is rooted in the call of Jesus to ‘love our neighbor as we love ourselves,’” according to The Christian Post. The ad was sponsored by World Relief, an evangelical refugee resettlement organization. Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order banned refugee resettlement for 120 days, barred Syrian resettlement indefinitely and limited the number of refugees to be resettled in the U.S. to 50,000. This number includes the 32,000 already resettled under former President Barack Obama at the end of his presidency.
Akin is president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and Stetzer serves as executive director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College in Illinois. For the full list of signatories, visit welcomerefugees-worldrelief.nationbuilder.com. (TAB)
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