‘Another promise kept': 5 evangelical leaders respond to Trump’s Golan Heights statement  

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Samuel Rodriguez

The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, took to social media to celebrate Trump's announcement. 

Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, tells Spirit-filled Christians at the Empowered21 Global Congress to stand up for their faith at the Jerusalem Pais Arena in Israel on Sunday May 24, 2015.
Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, tells Spirit-filled Christians at the Empowered21 Global Congress to stand up for their faith at the Jerusalem Pais Arena in Israel on Sunday May 24, 2015. | The Christian Post/Leonardo Blair

In a post to Twitter on Thursday evening, Rodriguez, who also serves on the president’s evangelical advisory board, applauded the statement.

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“I applaud this administration’s decision to recognize what’s been true since God gave the Israelites the Promised Land, and more recently when Israel re-took control of the land during the Six-Day War in 1967, that the Golan Heights are the rightful, sovereign lands of Israel,” said Rodriguez.

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