Wednesday, October 11, 2006

PBS Reports on "Vigorous political organizing inside Latino churches"

The award-winning PBS program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly reports on "vigorous political organizing inside Latino churches."

This story, reported by Kim Lawton, is excellent and balanced. Rarely does a mainstream media organization devote so much time and thought to the issues of faith and politics in the Hispanic community and PBS should be applauded for the work on this piece. It's one of the important things I've been pushing for since I established the Hispanic Voter Project at Johns Hopkins University following 2000 presidential election.

She reports that, "However things shake down politically, experts agree the mobilization over immigration is creating unprecedented new alliances between various ethnic groups within the Hispanic world and between Catholics and Protestants."

Click [here] to read the transcript or watch the streaming video from the recent broadcast.

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