Sep 19, 2009 10:50 am US/Pacific
L.A. Faith Leaders Push Health Care For Immigrants
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
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As Pres. Obama pushes for health care reform, religious leaders are some of the voices being raised to ensure immigrants are included in the plan. (File)
AP
Los Angeles religious leaders have launched a phone campaign to urge lawmakers to include undocumented immigrants in any health care reform plan.
At a religious service Friday, faith leaders called access to health care a moral and spiritual imperative. More than 150 worshippers attended a Mass at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church and prayed for an all-inclusive reform plan.
Father Richard Estrada, who heads the immigrant services organization Jovenes Inc., says inclusion of all immigrants is consistent with biblical teachings about caring for society's most vulnerable. But religious conservatives say that applies to people of faith, not to governments.
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