{"id":45801,"date":"2016-05-23T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/hispanic-evangelicals-point-presidential-candidates-to-issues-that-matter-most-education-life-religious-liberty-immigration\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T02:26:03","slug":"los-evangelicos-hispanos-senalan-a-los-candidatos-presidenciales-los-temas-mas-importantes-educacion-vida-libertad-religiosa-e-inmigracion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/los-evangelicos-hispanos-senalan-a-los-candidatos-presidenciales-los-temas-mas-importantes-educacion-vida-libertad-religiosa-e-inmigracion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Evangelicals Point Presidential Candidates To Issues That Matter Most: Education, Life, Religious Liberty, Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SACRAMENTO, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 23, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC\/CONEL), the nation&#8217;s leading organization for 16 million Hispanic American Evangelicals, drew the attention of presidential candidates <span class=\"xn-person\">Donald Trump<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Hillary Clinton<\/span> over the weekend. More than 1,000 pastors and church leaders, representing 40,000 U.S. churches, watched the candidates&#8217; video greetings during a main session Friday night. Both Trump and Clinton touched on the top priorities of Latino voters: the economy, education and immigration. During the NHCLC convention, Hispanic Evangelicals focused attention on similar topics: education, life, religious liberty and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20120912\/CL72800LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20120912\/CL72800LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As politicians court the vote of Hispanics in our nation, they should pay close attention to the heart of Hispanic voters: their children. No other issue matters matter more than this one,&#8221; explains Rev. <span class=\"xn-person\">Samuel Rodriguez<\/span>, President of the NHCLC, as he highlights the warm heart of Latino voters. &#8220;Hispanic parents rank education as a top priority, ahead of immigration and second only to the economy, because they still believe in the American dream. Hispanic families value hard work, education and faith \u2013 a powerful trifecta that is sure to yield a stronger America. So candidates who say they love Hispanics should reflect that conviction in their words and in their actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A recent internal survey of NHCLC members revealed that Hispanic evangelicals remain undecided. No candidate from either party has a lock on their support, and more than one-third of those polled say there is no one who clearly represents them at this point in the race. They also noted that the candidate&#8217;s policies mattered more than rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>In his video greeting to NHCLC members, Trump promised, &#8220;we&#8217;re going to create good schools, and I mean, in some cases, hopefully, great schools.&#8221; <span class=\"xn-person\">Hillary Clinton<\/span> invited, &#8220;let&#8217;s work together to . . . give everyone a quality education regardless of their zip code. Let&#8217;s . . . make sure every young person in America has the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rev. <span class=\"xn-person\">Samuel Rodriguez<\/span>, founder and president of NHCLC\/CONEL and a former public school educator, views education equity as a matter of biblical justice. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to remind Americans that we are not only one nation under God, but we are also a nation of liberty and justice for all. We will bring biblical justice to our nation&#8217;s public classrooms when academic achievement is no longer dependent upon a student&#8217;s zip code, ethnicity or income. And we will truly love our neighbors as ourselves when we love their students as our own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NHCLC, which values Education as one of its core directives, advocates for Hispanic student success including education equity and high academic standards for all students as a part of its mission as a Christian organization. Education resources for parents and churches, including information on Education Sunday, are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandeducation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.FaithandEducation.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>NHCLC is the world&#8217;s largest Hispanic Christian organization, serving as a representative voice for the more than 100 million Hispanic Evangelicals assembled in over 40,000 U.S. churches and another hundreds of thousands of congregations spread throughout the Spanish-speaking diaspora. For additional information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhclc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nhclc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SACRAMENTO, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 23, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC\/CONEL), the nation&#8217;s leading organization for 16 million Hispanic American Evangelicals, drew the attention of presidential candidates <span class=\"xn-person\">Donald Trump<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Hillary Clinton<\/span> over the weekend. More than 1,000 pastors and church leaders, representing 40,000 U.S. churches, watched the candidates&#8217; video greetings during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}