U.S. travel ban lifted, new mission field takes shape

USA (MNN) — A political transfer within the U.S. presents a possibility for believers. A journey ban enacted in 2017 restricted entry to the U.S. from a handful of nations recognized for terrorist exercise – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Nevertheless, these restrictions were overturned in latest days, together with earlier modifications to the vetting course of. Whereas some have a good time the change, others voice concern about nationwide safety.

“We are able to sit and debate this all day. However for us, as believers, we all know this: it’s a golden alternative,” Tom Doyle of Uncharted Ministries says.

“By no means earlier than have Muslims been so open to the Gospel and the love of Christ. I’d name Christians to attempt to not see issues by way of a political lens, however by way of a biblical lens.”

Journey ban context

Controversy surrounded the travel ban, with critics saying it focused Muslims. Dispute drove the laws into the Supreme Court, which upheld the restrictions in 2018. Greater than 40,000 vacationers had been refused visas, the AP reports.

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Supporters of the journey ban say it focused potential terrorists, not followers of Islam. As of 2017, greater than 300 individuals who entered the US as refugees had been the topics of counterterrorism investigations.

In defending Executive Order 13780, the revised model of a earlier government order, former president Trump said:

Government Order 13769 didn’t present a foundation for discriminating for or towards members of any specific faith. Whereas that order allowed for prioritization of refugee claims from members of persecuted spiritual minority teams, that precedence utilized to refugees from each nation, together with these during which Islam is a minority faith, and it utilized to minority sects inside a faith.

Listen to Doyle’s full interview to find out how immigration modifications below latest presidents affected Christians.

“As believers, we are able to ‘play politics’ and speak concerning the Obama administration, the Trump administration, and the Biden administration. However whenever you have a look at the New Testomony and what the apostles did, they had been prepared to achieve out to all folks – irrespective of the place they had been from,” Doyle states.

“You see Jesus reaching out to Roman troopers, a girl from Tyre, foreigners; it actually didn’t matter.”

As soon as God units a Muslim lady free, she turns into an unstoppable power for God. Ladies Who Threat takes readers into the intimacy of Muslim houses in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, and different scorching spots to see the drama of Christ at work.
(Photograph, caption courtesy of Thomas Nelson)

A brand new mission area

Ask the Lord how one can share His excellent news with Muslim neighbors or coworkers. “One of many causes they’ve come to our nation within the first place is that Islamic governments failed them,” Doyle notes.

“Let’s attain out with love, construct friendships, and see what occurs as we share the Gospel with them.”

Search for suggestions within the new guide Doyle co-authored along with his spouse, JoAnn. “We simply launched Ladies Who Threat: Secret Brokers for Jesus within the Muslim World. It’s about heroic girls which have come to religion in Christ within the face of unbelievable hazard and risk to their lives in Muslim nations,” he says.

“On the finish, we give factors on methods to attain out to [Muslims], methods to construct friendships.”

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