Latin gospel singer Ingrid Rosario, accompanied by a four-piece band, belts out impassioned ballads before a captive audience, hands clasped or in the air, eyes transfixed on the stage or closed in a meditative state. Is this scene from church? A Christian rock concert? Hardly. It’s a prayer session at a staunchly pro-Israel event.
The Jewish state was front and center at the April 28-30 annual convention of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC)/CONEL in Houston. On the first day of the gathering, NHCLC/CONEL—the world’s largest Hispanic Christian organization, representing more than 40,000 American churches and another 500,000 globally—launched an initiative called the Hispanic Israel Leadership Coalition (HILC), which will seek to galvanize the energy of the world’s nearly 150 million Hispanic Evangelicals to drum up support Israel.
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