28.06.2011                      26.Siwan, 5771

Innenpolitik:

'Interior Ministry nixing Evangelical visas'

Outgoing International Christian Embassy head says ministry has "decimated organizations' ability to hold professional staff."

The Interior Ministry has started revoking and denying visas to employees of local Evangelical organizations, the outgoing executive director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) charged.
Rev. Malcolm Hedding, who has run the ICEJ for the last decade, said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post last week that over the last three years, he has noticed a new ministry policy toward Evangelical foreign agencies, which has “decimated their organizations in terms of their ability to hold professional staff, significantly impacting our ability to operate.”…