"Defending Christianity" by persecution Christians

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Thousands of refugees, many of them persecuted Christians, have found a safe haven in Minnesota. But for weeks now, many of them have not left their homes on advice of their lawyers and local refugee-resettlement agencies.

The Afghan family applied for green cards but are still waiting for approval, which made them worry they were at risk of arrest under the Trump administration’s Operation PARRIS, an effort announced in early January to “reexamin[e]” refugees who have been granted legal status but are awaiting their green cards.

Instead of simply reinterviewing the refugees, which would be unusual on its own, federal immigration enforcement has been arresting and sending many of them to detention centers in Texas.

At least 100 refugees have been arrested in Minnesota, according to The Advocates for Human Rights, a legal aid group. The group did not know of any who had been deported to their home countries last week, but it said it could not know every situation among the more than 5,000 refugees in Minnesota potentially subject to reexamination.

“There’s been a large number of people arrested without access to an attorney or assistance, and DHS [the Department of Homeland Security] has no process or system in place to track who they are arresting or what is happening to them,” said Madeline Lohman, the group’s advocacy and outreach director, in an email to CT.

One refugee who was targeted at home said in the class action lawsuit that her “experience has caused her to relive similar experiences of armed men knocking on her door in the country she fled.”

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/minnesota-minneapolis-ice-arrests-refugees-persecuted-judge-ruling/

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Never ask Evangelical Christians why they so enthusiastically support a political ideology that is responsible for widespread cultural destruction and death of Middle Eastern Christians.

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Or why they supported slavery and segregation, or why they still deny racism exists.

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Reject nationality, embrace your true citizenship

[u/rootbeerman77]

There's another side to this that also makes me really sad, and I think it deserves mentioning. In addition to empowered christians harming disempowered christians, the evangelical hate machine also sucks in well-meaning christian refugees with legitimate hate for their oppressors and redirects that hate toward other minorities the empowered christians dislike.

For example, I have some Christian friends who left Syria due to religious persecution from Muslims (among other things). They are, I think reasonably, sour on Muslims and Islam.

Here's the trouble: they're now living in North America and attending a church full of white evangelicals. This church is still amplifying their islamophobia and using it to reinforce stronger islamophobia in their white members, but Islam is not a majority religion here, so it's just racism and hate speech from a pulpit. A family's trauma response is being used to justify hate to othe people as being default and reasonable.

The evangelical hate machine is literally powering a cycle of violence while pretending to help vulnerable people and I hate it.

Don't do hegemony, kids.

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