Christians, Persecutors and Lions

By Julio Severo

While Christians today are discussing the danger of a coming government that will persecute them relentlessly and the right is exploiting this fear to elect its candidates, Christians in the Roman Empire already lived this danger on a daily basis.

They were tortured, burned alive and thrown into the lions’ arenas. They were eaten alive and there was nothing left of their bodies even to be buried in a cemetery with dignity.

The persecution of the Roman Empire was total: political and religious.

However, there was not only Roman persecution. For religious reasons, non-Christian Jews persecuted Christian Jews and still stoked the Roman Empire against Christians. Non-Christian Jews saw themselves as a people much more chosen by God than Jesus Christ and Christian Jews. This wrong Jewish perception persists today.

The Christians’ reaction was to pray for the bloodthirsty Emperor Nero. The Apostle Paul said:

“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:1-4 ESV)

Paul did not curse the persecuting Romans and Jews. He didn’t curse Nero. In place of profanity, he encouraged Christians to pray for the cruel Emperor Nero and his salvation.

Paul could have this spiritual attitude because he was not just a nominal Christian. Through prayer and reading the Bible, he lived in deep spiritual friendship with Jesus.

Yet, if he were involved in political interests, he would curse Nero day and night. He would curse Jews who persecuted Christians.

The quality of those who do not know God is their potty mouth, full of the filth of their hearts. The quality of those who know God is their mouth of praise, prayer and preaching of the Gospel.

Today’s Christians are not tortured or eaten by lions and they curse everyone and do not pray for anyone. Christians in Paul’s day were tortured and eaten by lions, they did not curse anyone, but they prayed for everyone.

It was cursing, slandering and lying that the Russian communist dictator Lenin built the Soviet Union. It was with servants like Paul who did not curse, but prayed, praised and preached the Gospel that Jesus Christ expanded the Kingdom of God throughout the world — a kingdom that is bigger than the Roman Empire, bigger than the American Empire, bigger than Facebook, bigger than Twitter and bigger than Google.

I hope that the spiritual example that Paul left two thousand years ago, when he and many Christians were persecuted without cursing, will serve as a lesson for modern Christians, who neither pray nor read the Bible, but speak as many profanities and vulgarities as if they were more spiritual than Paul and even Jesus Christ.

Portuguese version of this article: Os cristãos, os perseguidores e os leões

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Christian Orthodox Putin and Calvinist Viktor Orban Discussing International Alliance to Protect Christians

By Julio Severo

The Barnabas Fund, a worldwide ministry working with persecuted Christians, has seen in a positive way how Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed concern about the “mass exodus” of Christians from the Middle East and pledges his nation will do “everything” to protect them from “persecution, being killed, raped and robbed.”

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin

The report on the Barnabas Fund and Putin was made by WorldNetDaily, one of the most important conservative Christian websites in the world, which said,

Putin was speaking at a recent meeting with Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister.

The two described the Middle East as the “cradle of Christianity,” and Putin raised concerns about the exodus of Christians.

He pledged Russia "would do everything" to protect them.

Orban discussed an “international alliance” to help and protect Christians as well as other minority faiths.

“Christians in the Middle East have endured severe persecution and violent conflict,” Barnabas said. “Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church said, ‘Many times, we feel we are abandoned as Christians of the Middle East. We feel we have no friends. That nobody cares about us.’”

Three years ago, Hungary created a governmental agency focusing on alleviating the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. It followed an earlier meeting between Orban and various church leaders, including Aphrem.

Continuing, WorldNetDaily said,

“The Russian stance should serve to strengthen efforts to support these suffering Christians,” Barnabas Fund explained. “Barnabas Fund has supported many projects for Christians in Syria through Patriarch Aphrem’s office and other project partners, including feeding programs and emergency aid after violent attacks.”

BosNewsLife reported Hungary spent tens of millions of dollars on building or renovating churches, hospitals and other humanitarian aid.

“Much is directed toward Christians in the Middle East where thousands have been killed, injured, or displaced by wars and extremist attacks,” the website said.

Putin also said he wants Russia to help restore and preserve Christian “holy sites.”

He said Russian influences already are helping Jewish groups…

Orban, who organized the gathering, said he joins Putin about the Christians exodus.

Putin is a member of the Russian Orthodox Christian Church, while Orban is a member of the Calvinist Hungarian Reformed Church.

An alliance between an Orthodox Christian and a Calvinist to protect Christians should be welcome by all Christians.

While Putin is a nominal Christian, Orbán seems to be leaving the nominal Christianity to embrace a more practical faith. Recently, in a very humble attitude, Orban posted a powerful image of himself kneeling to pray with evangelist Nick Vujicic.

He needs such change. Orbán is Calvinist, but his wife and their five children are Roman Catholic. This is a very common situation among Calvinists, whose faith is so weak and whose Christianity is so nominal that they marry Catholics. U.S. President Donald Trump, who is a nominal Calvinist having been born in the Presbyterian Church, has also married a Catholic woman, but there is hope: he has lately given attention to prosperity gospel televangelist Paula White, who is his top spiritual adviser.

Christians should pray that Putin may have the same spiritual opportunity Orbán and Trump are having.

The partnership of Orbán and Putin to help Christians was also wanted by Trump in his 2016 campaign. During all the year of 2016, Trump made abundantly clear that he wanted such partnership with Putin, but neocons tormented his plan.

Trump needs our prayers to prevail over neocons. Only this way he will have his dreamed partnership.

If Trump ever joins Putin and Orbán, it will be two Calvinists and one Orthodox Christian partnering to protect Christians.

Such partnership should be supported by all Christians.

Portuguese version of this article: Ortodoxo cristão Putin e calvinista Viktor Orban discutem aliança internacional para proteger os cristãos

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Christians suffered an increase in persecution last year with 245 MILLION facing Islamic violence or oppression around the world — 30 million more than a year ago, while Great Britain rejects persecuted Christians and appoints Muslim as special envoy on freedom of religion

By Julio Severo

“Christians around the world suffered a huge increase in persecution last year — with around 30 million more people being targeted than in the previous year,” said George Martin in a DailyMail report.

The full DailyMail report said,

A report by Open Doors, a Dutch charity that supports persecuted Christians showed that in total, 245 million faced violence or oppression in 2018, with 73 countries listed as danger zones for Christians.

China has been named among the most dangerous places to be a Christian after new laws governing religious expression led to raids and the demolition of scores of churches.

At least 50 million people expected to experience some form of repression this year as the government tightens its controls over religious worship.

While India has also seen a spate of against ultra-nationalists against non-Hindu minorities — the report claimed.

“Rising nationalism is leading to similar persecution in other countries such as Bhutan, Myanmar and Nepal where national identity is tied to religion,” the charity said.

Open Doors said in its 2019 World Watch List, which ranks 50 countries, that one in three Christians face high levels of persecution in Asia - as India entered the top 10 for the first time.

The DailyMail report then explains that the Open Doors’ List

comes just three weeks after Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt ordered an independent review into the persecution of Christians worldwide. Hunt said: “Britain has long championed international religious freedom, and the prime minister underlined our global leadership on this issue when she appointed my excellent colleague Lord Ahmad as her special envoy on freedom of religion or belief. So often the persecution of Christians is a telling early warning sign of the persecution of every minority.”

There are at least two major faults in the report. First, if “Britain has long championed international religious freedom,” why was persecuted Catholic Asia Bibi denied asylum in Great Britain? A report published in the British newspaper The Telegraph sheds light in the true reality of Great Britain. It is titled “Asia Bibi ‘not offered UK asylum amid concerns of unrest and attacks.’”

Asia could not get asylum in Great Britain amid concerns of unrest and attacks of a large population of Muslim invaders in Great Britain! A nation traditionally Christian, especially Protestant, now lives in fear of Muslim invaders.

Yet, instead of recognizing the threat of the invaders, the DailyMail report unashamedly says Primer Minister, Theresa May, “appointed Lord Ahmad as her special envoy on freedom of religion or belief.” Conservatives, especially Christians, expected much more from May, who presents herself as conservative. Obviously, her appointment was not meant to please persecuted Christians, but their Islamic oppressors.

Lord Ahmad is a Muslim. To appointed a Muslim as a “special envoy on freedom of religion” to review into the persecution of Christians worldwide is akin to putting a fox to review if chicken in the hennery have been persecuted by foxes. Great Britain is laughing in the faces of persecuted Christians around the world.

By denying asylum to persecuted Catholic Asia Bibi and appointing a Muslim as a special envoy on freedom of religion, Great Britain cannot be taken seriously as a nation that champions international religious freedom.

By the way, I enjoy reading the British newspaper DailyMail, but their reports on Islamic issues are biased. Whenever I comment on their reports on Islam trying to explain the irresponsibility of Great Britain and Europe allowing hordes of Islamic invaders, DailyMail rejects my comments — in the same way newspapers in Saudi Arabia would censor my comments showing that the explanation for the persecution of Christians around the world is very simple: Christians have been, overwhelmingly, victims of Islamic oppressors.

Portuguese version of this article: Cristãos sofreram um aumento de perseguição no ano passado, com 245 milhões de cristãos enfrentando violência ou opressão islâmica em todo o mundo — 30 milhões a mais que há um ano, enquanto a Grã-Bretanha rejeita cristãos perseguidos e nomeia muçulmano como embaixador especial de liberdade religiosa

Source: Last Days Watchman

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When a Televangelist Cares More about Weapons Deals than Human Lives for the Sake of Neoconservatism

By Julio Severo

Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson said the U.S. should not risk “$100 billion worth of arms sales” with Saudi Arabia after the apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi consulate in Turkey, saying that America has more important things — like jobs and coffers benefited by arms deals — to focus on.

Pat Robertson

He appeared on its flagship television show The 700 Club on October 15, 2018, to caution American evangelicals against allowing the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia to deteriorate over Khashoggi’s killing.

“For those who are screaming blood for the Saudis — look, these people are key allies,” Robertson said. While he called the faith of the Wahabists — the hardline Islamist sect to which the Saudi Royal Family belongs — “obnoxious,” he urged viewers to remember that “we’ve got an arms deal that everybody wanted a piece of…it’ll be a lot of jobs, a lot of money come to our coffers. It’s not something you want to blow up willy-nilly.”

“You’ve got one journalist — who knows? Was it an interrogation? Was he assassinated? Were there rogue elements? Who did it?...You’ve got $100 billion worth of arms sales...we cannot alienate our biggest player in the Middle East.”

I first knew The 700 Club in the late 1970s in Brazil and when Robertson’s name came, the first idea was evangelism and conservatism. I could never believe that someday his name would be connected to defense of arms deals and the Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia.

Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and longtime critic of the Saudi Royal Family, was a permanent resident of the United States, where he moved after determining that it was unsafe to remain in Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi spent the past year as a columnist for the Washington Post, where he regularly published incendiary articles critical of Saudi Arabia and its leadership.

Yet, if the killing of a dissident journalist is not so important as the U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia, what about 9/11? Of the 19  Islamic terrorists in this attack, 15 were from Saudi Arabia, according to the CIA. In 2015, one of the 9/11 terrorists, Zacarias Moussaoui, claimed several members of the Saudi royal family had been listed as al-Qaeda donors in the database he worked on under orders of Osama bin Laden, CNN reports.

Even CBN of Robertson, in a 2015 report titled “Saudi Arabia’s Role in Spreading Islamic Terrorism,” recognized, albeit timidly, that Saudi Arabia spreads terrorism. The kind of Islam that the Saudis spread is Sunni Islam, which is the most violent form of Islam against Christians.

In a 2014 article titled “Saudi royal family will not allow Obama to save Christians in Iraq,” Religious Freedom Coalition director William J. Murray said,

“The United States has been the ‘puppet’ military of the Saudi royal family, attacking and isolating Shia nations such as Syria. The Shia majority state of Syria, which protects religious minorities, is a target of the United States only because the Saudi royals are giving the orders, not the American people.”

According to Murray, under Obama, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia trained ISIS terrorists to attack Syria.

In a 2018 WND report titled “Russia and the Sunni Muslim threat,” Murray said,

“Currently the Sunni Muslim propaganda machine is everywhere inside the Washington, D.C. beltway. Money from the rich Gulf states, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia, floods the media and spreads political influence. Public remembrance of the Sunni Muslim attacks that have killed scores of Americans over the last decade or so has vanished, and even the 9/11 attack is hardly mentioned. The almost daily beheadings in Saudi Arabia are forgiven. Our leaders looked away as torture chambers were set up in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the Saudi capital this year. The slaughter going on in Yemen by Saudi Arabian-backed forces is hardly mentioned. In the Washington area the Saudi Academy, which is a Sunni Muslim school for the children of diplomats from Muslim nations, teaches democracy is an apostate religion that must be destroyed. It also teaches Jews are descendants of apes and pigs and that women are the property of men. One former valedictorian was convicted after leaving the school of joining Al Qaida and plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush. Another graduate was arrested while attempting to board an airliner with a large concealed butcher knife. The school is 100 percent funded by the Saudi Arabian government. No American officials complain about the hatred being taught at the Saudi Academy.”

According to John Perkins, in his 2004 book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” Saudi Arabia has a very special relationship with the U.S. since mid-1970s. He said,

“The evidence was indisputable: Saudi Arabia, America’s longtime ally and the world’s largest oil producer, had somehow become, as a senior Treasury Department official put it, ‘the epicenter’ of terrorist financing… Saudi largess encouraged U.S. officials to look the other way, some veteran intelligence officers say. Billions of dollars in contracts, grants, and salaries have gone to a broad range of former U.S. officials who had dealt with the Saudis: ambassadors, CIA station chiefs, even cabinet secretaries…”

So even Americans know about the indisputable Saudi role in the international Islamic terrorism. In fact, Perkins travelled to Saudi Arabia in the early 1970s as a U.S. operative and he knows the facts behind the scenes.

Now, for the sake of the U.S. arms deal with a nation that spreads terrorism, a televangelist is looking the other way because if the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia deteriorates, as Robertson recognized, thousands of Americans will lose their jobs in the military industrial complex, and billions of Saudi dollars will not come to the U.S. coffers.

Thousands of U.S. Christians have jobs in the military industrial complex. If the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia deteriorates, they lose their jobs. If it does not deteriorate, Christians in the Middle East and other parts of the world lose their lives as a consequence of the Sunni terrorism of Saudi Arabia heavily armed by the U.S.

It is very obvious that non-Christian Americans have sold their souls to the devil, in Saudi form, for the sake of bloody money. Have now even loved televangelists followed suit?

Islam from Saudi Arabia, not Iran, has killed more Christians in the Middle East than any other ideology. Even so, the U.S. has protected Saudi Arabia, not its Christian victims. Trump has badly failed in his promise to help Christians persecuted by Muslims. Instead of receiving in the United States thousands and thousands of persecuted Christians (often victims of Saudi and U.S. interventionism), the Trump administration has received in the first 6 months of 2018 just 21 persecuted Christians, vastly less than Obama. Yet, he has not failed in his broad support and protection of the Saudi dictators.

For Saudi oil’s sake, the U.S. is willing to sacrifice thousands of lives of Christian victims of Sunni Islam. And a loved televangelist approves it.

For Saudi oil’s sake, the U.S. is not willing to punish Saudi Arabia for the thousands of lives of Americans destroyed on 9/11.

What is the explanation for Pat Robertson to use his The 700 Club to encourage his evangelical audience to tolerate Saudi crimes?

Robertson is trying to please U.S. President Donald Trump, who last year sold the massive amount of US$ 110 billion in military equipment to Saudi Arabia.

Robertson praised the approach of Trump, who has publicly cast doubt on the Saudi crimes, comparing them to left-wing accusations against conservatives.

To justify Saudi crimes, both Trump and Robertson are looking the other way and comparing the Saudis to conservatives!

According to Vox,

“Robertson’s stance is in keeping with his wider, full-throated support for President Trump’s policies over the past few years. Since Trump’s inauguration, the Christian Broadcasting Network has become a de facto propaganda channel for the administration, running programs that, for example, suggest that Donald Trump was chosen by God to become president. In return, Robertson has frequently been granted rare access for sit-down interviews with Trump, during which he typically throws Trump softball questions.”

For the sake of bloody money, Trump is not imposing necessary sanctions on Saudi Arabia. Fearful of losing “friendship,” Robertson is not being a prophetic voice against the U.S.-Saudi bloody deal.

To support Trump in everything is a dangerous undertaking. Christians support King David in everything he gave a good example. But even he, who was a man after the heart of God, was not perfect. He adulterated with Bathsheba and had her husband killed.

If Christians would support David in everything, they would eventually support also adultery and murder, just because David did it.

If Christians cannot support David’s sins, why is televangelist Pat Robertson justifying Saudi crimes for the sake of Trump?

Even liberal Canada has condemned Saudi Arabia over human rights abuses. If liberal Canada can do it, why cannot the U.S. do it? Why cannot Robertson and other U.S. evangelicals do it?

Robertson has with Trump the same relationship that Nathan the Prophet had with King David. Robertson always have positive messages to Trump. Nathan had always positive messages to David.

Yet, when David sinned, Nathan was sent by God to give him a non-positive message. Has not Robertson been attentive to God’s voice to do for Trump the same thing Nathan did for David?

A relationship is only friendship when both parts are free and sincere to approve and disapprove the good and bad acts of one another. When the message is always positive, there is not real friendship, but only opportunism.

The flatterer flatters everything the flattered individual does right and wrong. A true Christian approves and praises everything that needs to be approved and reproves everything that needs to be disapproved.

If places were changed and Nathan were today before Trump, he would bring to Trump from God a disapproving message about Saudi Arabia, Trump’s appointment of homosexual activists and much more.

What would Robertson do about David’s adultery and his order to murder Bathsheba’s husband?

The U.S. has given no protection to Middle East Christians, but the military protection the U.S. has given to Saudi Arabia, whose Sunni Islam is a great killer of Christians, is a big offense against Christians in Middle East.

Kings and presidents need from Christians not only a sweet and positive voice. They need also a prophetic voice, which is not always positive.

May God raise U.S. evangelicals to be the necessary prophetic Nathan that Trump needs.

With information from NewsMax and Vox.

Portuguese version of this article: Quando um televangelista se importa mais com acordos de armas do que com vidas humanas por amor ao neoconservadorismo

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Evangelicals Blast Trump Administration for Admitting to U.S. Only 21 Christian Refugees from Middle East in 2018

By Julio Severo

“After pledging that it would help Christians facing genocide by the Islamic State and other Muslim groups in the Middle East, figures show the Trump administration has resettled only 21 Christian refugees from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia so far this year,” said CBN News in a recent report.

The report added that the Trump administration “has all but abandoned Christians who face death and suffering in the Middle East.”

CBN said that “The Christian population in the Middle East region is believed to have fallen by two-thirds since 2011 because of Muslim persecution and genocide” — largely fueled by direct and indirect military interventions from the U.S. government under Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton.

“Despite claims that the Obama White House was shutting out Christian refugees, the Refugee Processing Center database shows that the Obama administration resettled a total of 1,315 Christians from the Middle East from Jan. 1, 2016 until June 19, 2016,” said CBN.

Even though 1,315 Christian refugees are a small number if compared to the 38,901 Islamic “refugees” that the Obama administration admitted to the U.S. in 2016, the number of Christian refugees admitted under Obama is vastly bigger than the insignificant number of 21 Christian refugees admitted by the Trump administration.

Apparently, such unofficial harsh ban on Christian refugees was not President Donald Trump’s original plan.

In an exclusive interview with CBN last year, Trump explained his immigration priority.

CBN host David Brody asked Trump during the interview: “As it relates to persecuted Christians, do you see them as kind of a priority here?”

Trump replied: “Yes.”

When Brody asked again, “You do?” the president continued: “They’ve been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them.”

It was pretty clear: It was very tough for persecuted Christians to get into the United States and Trump was going to help. This help is especially necessary and even compulsory because the Islamic genocide of Christians has come on the trail of the disastrous U.S. foreign policy.

In his report in the New American titled “Christian Massacres: A Result of U.S. Foreign Policy,” Alex Newman said, “It has been claimed that U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East could not be intentionally designed to do a better job of liquidating Christians than is happening nowadays.”

Newman also said,

After trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives were sacrificed by the U.S. government over the last decade intervening in the Middle East — the birthplace of Jesus Christ and Christianity — Christian communities are facing unprecedented struggles across most of the region. More than a few analysts have even called the systematic and growing persecution of Christians throughout much of the Muslim world an ongoing example of genocide.

One of the most frequent excuses offered to justify the persecution of Christians by murderous regimes and the anti-Christian fanatics they enable is that believers in Christ are somehow acting as surrogates or proxies for Western interests — especially the U.S. government. After decades of meddling in the internal affairs of nations around the world — backing dictators, sparking revolutions, imposing sanctions, and more — America is widely perceived as hostile and dangerous. Plus, as tyrants throughout history have learned, minorities make good scapegoats.

U.S. government intervention in the region has been justified using a broad array of issues: supposed “Weapons of Mass Destruction” (WMDs), the terror war, regional security, trade, and vaguely defined “national interests.” But increasingly, American policymakers have been meddling in the Middle East under the guise of “spreading democracy.” And as analysts have noted, when the overwhelming majority of the population is Muslim, so-called “democracy” — or majority rule — does not generally bode well for Christians and other minorities.

As predicted by innumerable experts, imposing “democracy” in Muslim-majority countries has been a disaster for Christians. Asked for an example of U.S. foreign policy benefiting Christians, a senior official with the USCIRF could not name one. Christianity has managed to survive in the Middle East for 2,000 years without U.S. government intervention. But if current trends continue, the religion of Christ could very well be eradicated in the region of its birth within the next few decades. And unfortunately, America will bear at least part of the responsibility.

The Trump administration is not helping persecuted Christians, according to the latest CBN report. In fact, Christians fleeing the Islamic oppression in the Middle East have not been given top priority for entrance into the U.S. Instead, the Trump administration is admitting to the U.S. many fewer persecuted Christians than the Obama administration did.

According to CBN, when Trump signed an immigration ban last year (which hit largely Islamic nations not aligned with Saudi Arabia), Christian leaders voiced their concerns about Christians being unfairly affected by his ban.

Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, was not pleased with Trump’s immigration ban.

“There’s a dire need for President Trump to issue a separate executive order — one specifically aimed to help ISIS genocide survivors in Iraq and Syria,” she said in a statement.

“For three years, the Christians, Yazidis and others of the smallest religious minorities have been targeted by ISIS with beheadings, crucifixions, rape, torture and sexual enslavement,” she continued. “One year ago, on March 17, 2016, ISIS was officially designated as responsible for this ‘genocide’ by the State Department.”

As far as persecuted Christians are concerned, the Trump administration has failed Christians fleeing Islamic persecution and genocide in the Middle East and, incredibly, it has been much less open to them than the left-wing Obama administration was.

The only openness of the Trump administration to persecuted Christians has been “to help” Iraqi Christians through USAID, which is the U.S. population control agency. This is, during decades U.S. left-wing and right-wing administrations opened wide the immigration doors to Muslims. Now Trump, who had personally voiced concern for suffering Christians, seems to be closing the door on them.

Trump has perpetuated the same blunders of Obama and other administrations by privileging Saudi Arabia and exempting it from his ban. Saudi Arabia is the leader of the global Sunni Islam, which is the main responsible for Islamic terror, including ISIS, and the genocide of Christians around the world. So Trump’s ban — Saudis in, and persecuted Christians out — is a contradiction of his promises in 2016. His current policy is making Saudi Arabia great and making persecuted Christians virtually ineligible to enter the U.S.

Saudis have oil and no innocence. Persecuted Christians have innocence, but no oil.

Some conservatives could think that Trump’s unofficial ban on persecuted Christians is “fake news.”

There was a cursed vice among left-wingers that all negative news — especially when coming from the conservative media — about Obama was fake news. Now the cursed vice can be seen among right-wingers, who treat all negative news about Trump as fake news. This may be true when the negative news comes from the left-wing media. But CBN is conservative and evangelical Christian — the same profile responsible for Trump’s election.

There is a conflict between fake news from the left-wing media and exaggerated news from the right-wing media.

Fake news is the effort of the massive left-wing to portray consistently Trump in a negative way. Exaggerated news is the effort of the right-wing media to portray consistently Trump in a positive way through an exaggerated defense of him, even when he is clearly wrong. The same extremism happened in the Bush era: There was the massive fake news from the left-wing media attacking Bush, and exaggerated news from the right-wing media defending him in everything, including the Iraq War. But guess what? Since 2016 Trump has attacked Bush for the Iraq War, including by using the same accusation the left-wing media used against him: Bush lied.

Certainly, some future conservative president will criticize today’s blunders of Trump, in the same way Trump did to Bush. I am just dealing with it in advance.

A conservative movement can develop and grow in a healthy way only though responsible criticism of external threats (Islam, feminism, homosexualism, witchcraft and Marxism) and self-criticism. Because Evangelicals were fundamental for Trump’s election, they have a duty to hold him accountable for his stated commitment to help persecuted Christians, by fighting for their immigration to the U.S. If hordes of Muslims were granted entry to the U.S. for decades, why not give Christians a bigger chance? Yet, Trump has drastically reduced even the small number of Christian immigrants allowed under Obama.

As an Evangelical Christian, I am compelled to defend the defenseless, and urge Trump to keep his promise to persecuted Christians.

U.S. evangelicals can and should voice their concerns directly to Trump. If Obama could admit to the U.S. 1,315 Christian refugees in 2016, Trump can and should do much more than admitting just 21.

It is pretty clear: It was very tough for persecuted Christians to get into the United States under Obama. Now, under Trump is virtually impossible.

Portuguese version of this article: Evangélicos americanos criticam fortemente governo Trump por permitir a entrada nos EUA de apenas 21 refugiados cristãos do Oriente Médio em 2018

Spanish version of this article: Evangélicos estadounidenses critican fuertemente gobierno Trump por permitir la entrada en EEUU de sólo 21 refugiados cristianos de Oriente Medio en 2018

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Why Does Christian Persecution Get Worse In Every Country The U.S. “Liberates”?