TITLE: Open Letter to Gov. Abbott from Faith Leaders on Migrant Drownings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 03, 2023
Contact Bee Moorhead: bee@texasimpact.org
“A BLIGHT ON OUR STATE’S NAME”
On Thursday, August 3, the Rev. Franz Schemmel, pastor of the Messiah Lutheran Church in Weatherford, Texas and Chairman of Board of Directors of Texas Impact, the state’s largest and oldest faith-based advocacy group, issued an open letter to Governor Greg Abbott regarding the two drowned migrants found in the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass:
ABOUT TEXAS IMPACT:
Texas Impact is a religious grassroots network whose members include individuals, congregations, and governing bodies of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and other faiths. Texas Impact exists to advance state public policies that are consistent with the shared values of Texas faith communities.
The non-profit works on a wide variety of public policy issues within the broadly held social concerns of mainstream religious traditions. Texas Impact uses a process of discernment on public policy issues like the processes used by many faith traditions, including Scripture, the wisdom of the faith traditions, current public policy information and data, and the experiential knowledge of people of faith to develop our positions and policy goals.
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