{"id":923,"date":"2019-09-30T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/?post_type=post_speaker&#038;p=923"},"modified":"2019-10-04T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:03:07","slug":"rev-bolivar-flores","status":"publish","type":"post_speaker","link":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2019\/speaker\/rev-bolivar-flores\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Bolivar Flores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Topic to Cover<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/event-topics\/#t15\">&#8220;Role of Faith Organizations in the Integration of Immigrants&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Rev. Bolivar Flores was born in Dominican Republic He graduated\nfrom New York Theological Seminary with a Doctorate in Theology and Clinical\nPastoral Education. In 2016, he founded \u201cEl Ministerio El Sol Sale Para Todos\nInternacional\u201d, and created a radio station with daily programming at 9:00 p.m.\nunder the same name. Rev. Flores also wrote a book entitled, \u201cCadenas Rotas\u201d,\nwhich directly translates to \u201cBroken Chains\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his ministry work, he has helped more than 4,000 people from\nthe United States, Dominican Republic, and Peru. His hard work led him to\nbecome Vice President of the New Jersey Coalition of Pastors and Ministers,\nChief of Chaplains in the city of West New York, and, fourth in command for the\nNational Association of Ministers. Additionally, he works with the entirety of\nthe faith-based community as the Pastoral Outreach Director of New Jersey\nReentry Corporation (NJRC), a non-profit organization dedicated to aiding\nindividuals returning from incarceration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Rev. Bolivar Flores established an agreement with the Coalition of Latin American Consuls New York (CLACNY) that said CLACNY would assist in identification procurement for immigrants from 17 different countries returning from incarceration. Additionally, he chairs La Magia de Las Bellas Artes, a cultural social welfare organization, and provides spiritual advising for great public servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More about the speaker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rev-bolivar-flores-6a4a43132\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rev-bolivar-flores-6a4a43132\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rev-bolivar-flores-6a4a43132\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic to Cover &#8220;Role of Faith Organizations in the Integration of Immigrants&#8221; Biography Rev. Bolivar Flores was born in Dominican Republic He graduated from New York Theological Seminary with a Doctorate in Theology and Clinical Pastoral Education. In 2016, he founded \u201cEl Ministerio El Sol Sale Para Todos Internacional\u201d, and created a radio station with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-923","post_speaker","type-post_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post_speaker"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}