{"id":46134,"date":"2016-06-15T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/orlando-latino-churches-gather-to-offer-faith-hope-love-following-local-massacre\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:54:03","slug":"las-iglesias-latinas-de-orlando-unen-fuerzas-para-ofrecer-fe-esperanza-y-amor-tras-la-masacre-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/las-iglesias-latinas-de-orlando-unen-fuerzas-para-ofrecer-fe-esperanza-y-amor-tras-la-masacre-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Latino Churches Gather to Offer Faith, Hope &amp; Love Following Local Massacre"},"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\">ORLANDO, Fla.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 15, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhclc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference<\/a> (NHCLC) and the Fraternity of Councils and Evangelical Entities of <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span> (FRACEEV) will host a prayer service at Iglesia de Dios M.I. in <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, June 15<\/span> at <span class=\"xn-chron\">7 p.m. EDT<\/span> to provide hope, faith and love for individuals in the community affected by Sunday&#8217;s deadly massacre at a gay nightclub. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgd618left\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgd618left\" title=\"National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20120912\/CL72800LOGO\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Whether Latino, black, white, straight or gay, one thing unites us and that is we are all made in the image of God,&#8221; said Rev. <span class=\"xn-person\">Samuel Rodriguez<\/span>, president of NHCLC. &#8220;The answer to radical hatred is none other than radical love; love for God and for each other. Every life deserves to be loved, cherished and respected. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We mourn with the families of the victims and pray for those injured in\u00a0Orlando,&#8221; Rodriguez continued. &#8220;In addition, we call upon all Americans to come together for the purpose of building a firewall of love, grace, truth and respect against intolerance, hatred, bigotry and violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shooting in <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> targeted the LGBT community and left 49 dead and 53 wounded. The nightclub, which calls itself &#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando&#8217;s<\/span> Latin Hotspot,&#8221; was holding its weekly &#8220;Upscale Latin Saturdays&#8221; when the rampage occurred. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The impact of this act of terrorism in <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> has been a very hurtful experience for our communities in central <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span>,&#8221; said Bishop <span class=\"xn-person\">Angel Marcial<\/span>, director of the NHCLC Florida Chapter and president of the Church of God&#8217;s South Spanish district. &#8220;We mourn, stand with and are prepared to fulfill our pastoral duties, in the love of Christ, in order to bless the families that are suffering due to this unspeakable tragedy. We denounce anyone who would use this attack to convey any type of fear theology with the human suffering taking place. Any such individuals do not speak in the name of the Hispanic churches in <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday evening&#8217;s service is open to the public and will unite local residents to &#8220;respond to the hurt&#8221; of this terrorist attack. Iglesia de Dios M.I. is located at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3326+S+Goldenrod+Rd,+Orlando,+FL+32822\/@28.4979955,-81.287691,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88e7647aad595a1d:0x132fcdf6b2fb3495!8m2!3d28.4979955!4d-81.2855023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3325 S Goldenrod Road<\/a> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The clarion call of the NHCLC is to &#8216;be light&#8217; in a dark world,&#8221; said NHCLC Vice President Rev. <span class=\"xn-person\">Tony Suarez<\/span>, who will attend Wednesday&#8217;s service in <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span>. &#8220;In the midst of the pain, hurt, confusion and fear, we are here to shine the light of Christ. My prayer is that this service can be just one step in bringing peace and healing to <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> and our nation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>FRACEEV<\/b> is an organization based in <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span> that has more than 2,000 participating Hispanic churches as members<b>. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>NHCLC\/CONEL<\/b> is the world&#8217;s largest Hispanic Christian organization. It serves as a representative voice for the more than 100 million Hispanic Evangelicals assembled in over 40,000 U.S. churches and hundreds of thousands of additional congregations spread worldwide throughout the Spanish-speaking diaspora. For additional information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhclc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nhclc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Logo- <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20120912\/CL72800LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20120912\/CL72800LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ORLANDO, Fla.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 15, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhclc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference<\/a> (NHCLC) and the Fraternity of Councils and Evangelical Entities of <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span> (FRACEEV) will host a prayer service at Iglesia de Dios M.I. in <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, June 15<\/span> at <span class=\"xn-chron\">7 p.m. EDT<\/span> to provide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46134","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=46134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}