• CNS News via Crosswalk.com, Wednesday, May 9, 2007 11 AM

A coalition of religious groups that wants to see a "compassionate" solution to immigration problems has targeted lawmakers with a new ad campaign.

Starting this week, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform will run the newspaper and radio ads in Florida, Arizona, Kansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania for six months. "Immigration is for us a religious issue," says Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners magazine. "It's what God wants and expects. So let's fix it, but with compassion. The Bible tells us again and again about the need to care for the stranger in our midst."

For Rev. Dan Soliday, CEO of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, "our current system is unhealthy for our immigrants, for our economy and for unhealthy for our immigrants, for our economy and for our values."

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