Sunday, December 31, 2023
Saturday, December 30, 2023
North American Division Continues to Promote Social Justice
December 27, 2023 Gerry Wagoner
In October 2018, Dan Jackson said (at the NAD Society of Communicators meeting) “Social Justice is the Gospel.” Not part of the gospel. Not an aspect of it. The whole kit and caboodle.
Five years later, in October this year, the NAD hosted a ‘Conscience and Justice convention at their office in Columbia Maryland. According to the Lake Region (regional) Conference, the meeting was a '“gathering of social justice visionaries and thought leaders.” A better name for it is the “NAD Christian Nationalism is Bad and Critical Race Theory is Good Social Justice SDA Polilib Woke Symposium” or NADCNBCRTGSJSDAPWS+, for short.
Some speakers at this event:
In October 2018, Dan Jackson said (at the NAD Society of Communicators meeting) “Social Justice is the Gospel.” Not part of the gospel. Not an aspect of it. The whole kit and caboodle.
Five years later, in October this year, the NAD hosted a ‘Conscience and Justice convention at their office in Columbia Maryland. According to the Lake Region (regional) Conference, the meeting was a '“gathering of social justice visionaries and thought leaders.” A better name for it is the “NAD Christian Nationalism is Bad and Critical Race Theory is Good Social Justice SDA Polilib Woke Symposium” or NADCNBCRTGSJSDAPWS+, for short.
Some speakers at this event:
- The Honorable Maxine Waters (Invited), Member of Congress
- Nicholas Miller, Co-Director Washington Adventist University Center for Law and Public Policy
- Leon Russell, Chairperson (Invited) NAACP
- Claudia Allen
- Charde’ Hollins, Mental Health & Equity Consultant
- Kim Brace, Founder and President Election Data Services
- Paul Graham, Assistant to the Vice President for Pastoral Ministries for Revitalization — Potomac Conference
- G. Alexander Bryant, President, North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Derrick Greene, Founder Interfaith Action Movement
- Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, President and General Secretary National Council of Churches
- Bettina Krause, Editor Liberty Magazine
- Marilyn Dabady Lynk, Associate Vice President Learning, Leadership & Organizational Development Diversity Inclusion Equity
Some Themes at This Conference
- LGBTQIA: Love and Liberty
- Immigration Today: What’s New?
- Addressing Health Disparities as Evangelism
- The Redistricting Process: Drawing the Lines
- Democracy Today: Justice or Injustice?
- Threats to the Voting Rights Act
- Historically and Today: Where Does the Church Stand on Systemic Racism and Application of the Three Angels Message?
- Learning, Leadership & Organizational Development Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Man Leading Massive Migrant Caravan to US Was Convicted of Kidnapping in Mexico Decades Ago: Report
Luis Garcia Villagran is leading a 10,000-strong throng of migrants to the US border with Mexico
Luis Garcia Villagran is leading a group of nearly 8,000 migrants to the United States. PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images
The migrant activist who is leading thousands of asylum-seekers to the United States was convicted of kidnapping nearly three decades ago and sentenced to 40 years in a Mexican prison where he claims he was tortured, according to a report.
Luis Garcia Villagran, a self-described Evangelical Christian, is at the head of the procession of nearly 10,000 migrants who set off Christmas Eve from the southern Mexican town of Tapachula heading north to the United States, which is already reeling from an immigrant crisis at the border.
Villagran, who runs the Center for Human Dignity, was arrested in the Mexican state of Chiapas in 1997 on kidnapping and conspiracy charges, which he has denied, the New York Post reported.
A judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison.
While imprisoned, Villagran said he was held in solitary confinement and tortured in an attempt to make him confess, resulting in him suffering a detached retina.
The injury, he said, went untreated and he lost sight in one eye.
Villagran said he was “stigmatized as dangerous, and they took me to maximum security prisons until the [Inter-American Commission on Human Rights] demanded my freedom.”
The migrant activist who is leading thousands of asylum-seekers to the United States was convicted of kidnapping nearly three decades ago and sentenced to 40 years in a Mexican prison where he claims he was tortured, according to a report.
Luis Garcia Villagran, a self-described Evangelical Christian, is at the head of the procession of nearly 10,000 migrants who set off Christmas Eve from the southern Mexican town of Tapachula heading north to the United States, which is already reeling from an immigrant crisis at the border.
Villagran, who runs the Center for Human Dignity, was arrested in the Mexican state of Chiapas in 1997 on kidnapping and conspiracy charges, which he has denied, the New York Post reported.
A judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison.
While imprisoned, Villagran said he was held in solitary confinement and tortured in an attempt to make him confess, resulting in him suffering a detached retina.
The injury, he said, went untreated and he lost sight in one eye.
Villagran said he was “stigmatized as dangerous, and they took me to maximum security prisons until the [Inter-American Commission on Human Rights] demanded my freedom.”
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He was released in 2010.
That experience led to the creation of the Center for Human Dignity, which he operates with his wife, Martha Martinex de la Fuente, the New York Post reported.
Villagran, who says he has led more than 40,000 migrants to the US since September 2021, is guiding a group of 8,000 asylum seekers mainly from South and Central America through Mexico. He predicted that the caravan could swell to 15,000 along the journey.
"We are the poorest of the poorest of those at the peak of need, those of us who do not have money to pay for visas or people smugglers," he said, according to the New York Post.
More than two million people have been apprehended at the US border in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the Department of Homeland Security says.
About 10,000 migrants have been arrested every day at the border this month, forcing US Customs and Border Protection to suspend cross-border rail traffic in the Texas border cities of Eagle Pass and El Paso, the Associated Press reported.
Bus of Migrants Kidnapped in Mexico
Jet Skis Used to Smuggle Migrants Through Southern Border of US and Mexico
Migrants Stuck at US-Mexico Border Are Ordering Uber Eats Through Wall
Migrant Encounters at US-Mexico Border Drop To Lowest Number Since February 2021
The U.S. Still Has a Migrant Crisis at the Border — It’s Just in Mexico for Now
He was released in 2010.
That experience led to the creation of the Center for Human Dignity, which he operates with his wife, Martha Martinex de la Fuente, the New York Post reported.
Villagran, who says he has led more than 40,000 migrants to the US since September 2021, is guiding a group of 8,000 asylum seekers mainly from South and Central America through Mexico. He predicted that the caravan could swell to 15,000 along the journey.
"We are the poorest of the poorest of those at the peak of need, those of us who do not have money to pay for visas or people smugglers," he said, according to the New York Post.
More than two million people have been apprehended at the US border in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the Department of Homeland Security says.
About 10,000 migrants have been arrested every day at the border this month, forcing US Customs and Border Protection to suspend cross-border rail traffic in the Texas border cities of Eagle Pass and El Paso, the Associated Press reported.
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Secretary Blinken and Mayorkas meet with Mexico President
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On this video there were several interruptions as if there was a resentment of the video coverage of the meeting.
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