Thousands of Christians from across the United States descended on Capitol Hill on Thursday in order to lobby Washington lawmakers on behalf of Israel.
Organizers of the event, called Christians United for Israel, showed their strength by lobbying over 85 percent U.S. Congress offices.
Attendees of this year's gathering are visibly different from those in the past: about one in five of the 5,000 participants was from a Hispanic Church.
“Last year we had about 300 Hispanics, but this year we started specific outreach to the Hispanic churches where Spanish is a language of worship”, says David Brog, the executive director of CUFI. “We have started an outreach to African-Americans. It was always our goal to broaden our base ethnically, geographically and theologically”.
Yet despite the attempt to reach out to traditionally left-leaning minority groups, Democrats are few and far between at the conference.
“We are determined to be bipartisan, we always invite Democrats but typically we get better answers from the Republicans”, says Brog.
3 comments:
Isnt there a passage in the Bible which states that if you turn your back on Israel,you have turned your back on God?
There is a new Israel. One who does not worship Satan.
The new Israel is composed of Gentiles and Jews alike.
Wake up Amerika
blah blah blah I'm sick of hearing about it and paying for it their own holy book the Torah forbids the arising from exile
Christians like the local because it's the Disney Land of their Holy fairy tale
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