Religious leaders meet in California to pray over border crisis

by Seth Udinski
Religious leaders meet at California boarder to pray over boarder crisis

Seth Udinski, FISM News

 

As the crisis at the American southern border continues to worsen, roughly 100 pastors and other religious leaders came together last week in southern California to pray and raise awareness to the situation.

The leaders, representing various faiths, gathered at the Otay Mesa ICE Detention Center in San Diego on Saturday. They gathered together to spend time in prayer, specifically for victims of human trafficking, a plight that unfortunately worsens when border security is neglected.

According to the International Labor Organization, nearly 25 million people are currently being trafficked in the world right now, with over 40 million people trapped in modern day slavery.

Pastor Phil Hotsenpiller of Influence Church in Anaheim, one of the attendees of the event, highlighted the problem at the California border and the need for prayer and action;

As a citizen and a Christian, I, like other Americans, have a responsibility to speak out against the lack of leadership at the highest level. We are witnessing children being abandoned, women being raped. Our border guards are facing impossible situations that need not occur. (Americans must) pray and protest about what is happening.

Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills added that there is a great need to support border security workers. He highlighted that these workers face a dangerous job every day, a job that has become more dangerous under the relaxed border policies of the Biden administration. Pastor Hibbs said,

We all need to stand in support of our border agents as they risk their health and their lives to defend the nation.

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