8602369890?profile=originalHispanic evangelical leader Samuel Rodriguez said Christians must realize the importance of dealing with the issue of illegal immigration, and urged them to rise up and apply biblical principles rather than leave it to "self-seeking" Republican and Democrat lawmakers.

Dealing with the immigration issue "may very well be the salvation of American Christianity," said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, pastor and president of National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, in an interview on Christian TV program Life Today with James and Betty Robison on Monday.

Rodriguez pointed out that of the 50 million Hispanics in America, 69 percent identify themselves as Roman Catholic – and more than half of them say they are Catholic Charismatic. And 24 percent of all Hispanics are born again or evangelical. Hispanics, he stressed, are "the only ethnicity where the majority identify themselves as spirit-empowered… This is a Christ-centered, Bible-based … a prophetic community." READ MORE

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