Pastor Pope Francis Reaches Out To Rape Victim

August 29, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Pastor Pope Francis Reaches Out To Rape Victim Alejandra Pereyra was knitting at her home when she received a phone call from a stranger who knew her name. When she identified herself, he said, "It's Pope Francis." Pereyra recounted the experience on Argentinean television, and after she picked up the phone, "I started crying. With an angelic voice, he told me to be calm and that he was calling because he had read my letter and my story struck him." Continue reading... Emergent Church Is Latest Target of "Values Voter" Movement, Along With Satan And Islam Clergy Suffering Should Be Wake-Up Call Sentenced To Death Pope Francis Uses Communion Wafers From Prison No Sharia In North Carolina Vandals Give 'Try God' Billboard A Very Different Spin Syrian War Is Not A Prelude To The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Pope Francis Uses Communion Wafers From Prison MORGAN GUYTON Why the Dream Has Been Deferred We do not fulfill Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream by being a people who don't say the N word or officially discriminate on racial terms. Only a culture of genuine solidarity in which we are proactively seeking the shalom of all people, and not just the purity of our nuclear families, is a culture that is living his dream. Continue reading... REV. GABRIEL SALGUERO El Sueño; Hispanic Evangelicals and Dr. King's Dream The close to 8 million Latino evangelicals owe a deep debt of gratitude to leaders like King, Rosa Parks, César Chavez, Joanne Robinson, and Fannie Lou Hamer. Our debt to them and to the Gospel is to be sure we are part of the on-going movement for civil and human rights in the U.S. and all over the world. Continue reading... ADAM BAILEY Speak Up. Speak Love. I write off protesting in and of itself because of the street preachers on campus or by the Mall in DC a few summers ago, forgetting that it was a protesting preacher at the front of that Mall 50 years ago who revolutionized the world. We don't want to seem too fringe, so we mainstream the radicals of history and don't get too risky ourselves. Continue reading... TOM KRATTENMAKER What the Christian Left Can Learn From the Christian Right If the drama in North Carolina represents the rise of a Christian left in this country -- and recent polling data indicates it might -- many liberal hearts like mine will gladden. Yet whatever better angels I have in my nature are counseling caution. Continue reading... JOHN MCCULLOUGH March on Washington: The Fierce Urgency of Now for Immigration Reform This is not the America that Dr. King dreamed of 50 years ago. We in the faith community will not stand to have compassion criminalized. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003