Posted on 02/08/2020 6:06:54 PM PST by ebb tide
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to mention Christians as she listed religious persecutions around the world Thursday.
The House speaker spoke Thursday morning in Washington, D.C., at the National Prayer Breakfast where she prayed for those who are persecuted because of their religion. She listed people of Buddhist, Muslim, and Jewish faiths before generalizing about other persecuted religions.
“Oh, Lord, we thank all gathered at this prayer breakfast for lifting our voices for the poor and the persecuted, the millions who are missing or murdered because of their faith,” Pelosi, who is a Catholic, prayed.
“Let us pray for the Panchen Lama and all the Tibetan Buddhists imprisoned in China or missing for following their faith,” she said. Pelosi also prayed for the “1 to 3 million Uighurs in China forced from their homes and incarcerated in camps” and for “Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia and for all the writers and religious free thinkers imprisoned for speaking their minds.”
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The House speaker also prayed for “priests, rabbis, pastors, and religious leaders around the world whose freedoms have been stolen because of what they believe,” for victims of anti-Semitism, and for the “countless Muslims and other religious minorities, often unseen and unnamed, who have been abducted, oppressed, and abused because of who they are and what they believe, their faith.”
Pelosi failed to specifically mention Christians during her prayer, though Christians are severely persecuted around the world for their beliefs.
Over 245 million Christians lived in places where they endured serious religious persecution between Nov. 1, 2017, and Oct. 31, 2018, according to Open Doors USA, an organization that aids persecuted Christians worldwide.
The organization also found that during this same time period, 4,305 Christians were killed for their faith, 1,847 churches and Christian buildings were attacked, and 3,150 believers were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced, or imprisoned.
Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic charity that administers to persecuted Christians, reports that “almost 300 million Christians around the world—or 1 out of every 7—live in a country where they suffer some form of persecution, such as arbitrary arrest, violence, a full range of human rights violations, and even murder.”
A 2019 report ordered by former British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt found that Christians were the most persecuted group in the world and that the persecution of Christians has reached near “genocide” levels. Christianity faces being “wiped out” from certain parts of the Middle East, the report found.
Pro-life activist Obianuju Ekeocha tweeted Thursday morning that severe persecution of Christians continues in Nigeria where Christians are slaughtered for their beliefs.
Pelosi closed by praying that Americans “never become immune to atrocities that continue to challenge the collective conscience of our shared humanity.”
She said:
For us today, people of faith, leaders, lawmakers, and activists who can mobilize the public, we pray that the moral clarity of faith moves us to demand justice for those who are suffering, and we pray that commercial interests never blind us to the ongoing human right struggle fought by so many throughout the world. Let us raise our voices in prayer as one in the struggle for freedom in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Pelosi did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Ping
Nanzi identifies as a Catholic, anyway.
What of it? So does Bergollio.
Witch.
Muslims are not a "minority" in the world's religions.
This is not a great week for Nancy.
She’s hateful, evil and anti-human.
Baby killer. Not Catholic, so I’m not surprised.
She should have listed Trump, because she persecutes him religiously.
No surprise. She’s one of the Devil’s disciples.
She has used the American public and taxpayer dollars to have an amazing life - with trips on private jets, public fame and adoration (amongst some at least), wealth, the ability to give her children a significant boost in life, and to actually make it into the history books in some manner. But that isn’t enough for her.
She’s 79 years old, and hasn’t grown enough personally such that she can be magnanimous, charitable, or have enough wisdom and integrity to put the American people and their families above her ego.
She’s a sad failure.
Peelousy omits thinking before she opens her gaping maw.
This retromingent vicious virago lives for one purpose: power. She is definitely senile and not a christian in supporting abortion which she calls a “sacrament.” She has blood on her head and will have to answer for it. As for me, this evil witch needs to be defeated and thrown out to her lavish pasture surrounded by the feces and drug needles of her constituents in San Francisco.
What did Trump day at this breakfast
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God actually does despise people who claim to be Christian, attempting to act like what they believe is “Christian”.
Nancy should take advantage of His mercy and repent, while she can.
Yes! Maybe the devil's number one succubus...
Proverbs 16:5
King James Bible
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Naturally.
The brutal oppression of Christianity is the core motivation of the Democrat.
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