A bipartisan slate of eight members of Congress urged the Chicago chapter of the U.S. Presbyterian Church to stop meeting with Hezbollah. “We urge you to rethink this policy of continued contact with people responsible for the murder of 258 Americans and the citizens of other members of the United Nations,” said the letter, initiated by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.).
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