Posted on 05/03/2015 9:56:42 AM PDT by marshmallow
Sister Diana wants to tell Americans about ISIS persecution of Christians in Iraq, but the State Department wont let her in.
Why is the United States barring a persecuted Iraqi Catholic nun an internationally respected and leading representative of the Nineveh Christians who have been killed and deported by ISIS from coming to Washington to testify about this catastrophe?
Earlier this week, we learned that every member of an Iraqi delegation of minority groups, including representatives of the Yazidi and Turkmen Shia religious communities, has been granted visas to come for official meetings in Washington save one. The single delegate whose visitor visa was denied happens to be the groups only Christian from Iraq.
Sister Diana Momeka of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena was informed on Tuesday by the U.S. consulate in Erbil that her non-immigrant-visa application has been rejected. The reason given in the denial letter, a copy of which I have obtained, is:
You were not able to demonstrate that your intended activities in the United States would be consistent with the classification of the visa.
She told me in a phone conversation that, to her face, consular officer Christopher Patch told her she was denied because she is an IDP or Internally Displaced Person. That really hurt, she said. Essentially, the State Department was calling her a deceiver.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Obama’s hatred of Christians knows no bounds.
Because Obama is an anti Christ.
Just damn.
This is about as brazen as it gets.
“This is about as brazen as it gets.”
Yes. And no old media coverage of it. After all, she is “just one of those Christian “haters”.
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