Pence: US Committed To Wiping Islamic Terror, Defend Christians

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US Vice President Mike Pence condemns “radical Islamic terrorists” and says “throughout the world, no people of faith today face greater hostility or hatred than followers of Christ.

Speaking on Thursday at a unique summit on persecuted Christians worldwide, hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelical Association in Washington, D.C., Pence said “radical Islamic terrorists” are committing “genocide” against Christian communities around the world.

The president knows “they are the embodiment of evil in our times, and he calls them by name – radical Islamic terrorists.

President Trump is “fully committed to bringing relief and comfort to believers” across Middle East and the world.

He’s made it clear that America will stand by followers of Christ in this hour of need,” Pence said.

“Persevere in prayer for those who wear the uniform and who are in this fight. Carry them in your prayers,” he advised Christians.

CNS News reports:

“Practitioners of terror harbor a special hatred for the followers of Christ and none more so than the barbarians known as ISIS. That brutal regime shows a savagery frankly unseen in the Middle East since the Middle Ages, and I believe ISIS is guilty of nothing short of genocide against people of the Christian faith, and it is time the world called it by name,” the vice president said.

“The reality is across the wide world, the Christian faith is under siege. Throughout the world, no people of faith today face greater hostility or hatred than followers of Christ,” Pence said.

In more than 100 countries across the globe “over 215 million Christians confront intimidation, imprisonment, forced conversion, abuse, assault or worse for holding the truths of the gospel,” he said.

Pence pointed to the recent terrorist attack on Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday and terrorist attacks on people of Christian faith in Iraq and Syria as examples.

“The Christian communities where the message of our Lord was first uttered and embraced today though, are often the targets of unspeakable atrocity. In Egypt just recently, we saw bombs explode in churches in the very midst of the celebration at Palm Sunday. A day of hope was transformed into tragedy,” he said.

“I was just this weekend with the pastor from Egypt who spoke of the images that day of seeing the palms the people carried into church on the ground marked with the blood of the injured,” the vice president said.

“In Iraq, at the hands of extremists, we’ve actually seen monasteries demolished, priests and monks beheaded, and the two millennia-old Christian tradition in Mosul virtually extinguished over night. In Syria, we see ancient communities burned to the ground. We see believers tortured for confessing Christ and women and children sold into the most terrible form of human slavery,” Pence said.

But President Donald Trump “sees these crimes for what they are: vile acts of persecution animated by hatred, hatred for the gospel of Christ,” the vice president said. “And so too does the president know those who perpetrate these crimes. They are the embodiment of evil in our times, and he calls them by name – radical Islamic terrorists.”

“From al Qaeda to Al Shabab, from Boko Haram to the Taliban, these extremist groups seek to stamp out all religions that are not their own or even a version of their own that they approve. Believers from every background have suffered grievously at their hands, and this summit is about calling the attention to the world to those tragic circumstances,” Pence said.

“Now Christianity faces unprecedented threats in the land where it was given life. It’s created an exodus unrivaled since the days of Moses in some communities. In Syria, the Christian population has plummeted from 1 ¼ million to only 500,000 in just the past six years. In Iraq, followers of Christ have fallen by 80 percent in the past decade and a half due to the violence of extremism and angst against Christian communities,” the vice president noted.

“The suffering of Christians in the Middle East has stirred America to act, and it brings me here today. President Trump rightly said not long ago that of the Christian church, ‘nobody has been treated worse in the Middle East.’ He’s made it clear that America will stand by followers of Christ in this hour of need,” Pence said.

He said the Trump administration is “fully committed to bringing relief and comfort to believers” across the Middle East and worldwide.

“This president knows that terrorists will not stop until we stop them, and under President Donald Trump, we will stop them,” Pence said.

“In President Trump, we not only have a leader who calls our enemy by name, we have a president who is confronting those who commit terror not only the home or hut or cave in which they hide,” he added.

Pence said Trump and the U.S. military along with its allies in the region of Iraq and Afghanistan will not rest until ISIS is defeated.

“We will not relent until we hunt down and destroy ISIS at its source,” the vice president said. “Because of the action of President Donald Trump, ISIS is already on the run. Progress in Mosul is tangible, but the fight goes on, and I would say to each of you: persevere in prayer for those who wear the uniform and who are in this fight. Carry them in your prayers.”

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  1. Pence is NOT a Christian. a REAL Christian follows the teachings of Jesus in action. This clown claims he is a Christian but would change laws to bring a system led by Taliban-like leaders who call themselves Christian. Those involved in the Evangelical movement. They are already coming out and showing themselves to be anything but followers of Christ. They don’t even know what the Bible says, they are Wolves in sheeps clothing. They abhor the poor unlike Jesus. They want to take everything away from the poor and give it to the wealthy. Buy a Bible and read it, you are not getting educated in true Christianity from the Evangelical leaders or those in the government who make claims of being christian. They want to rule with an iron fist and take away all of the rights we were given. Read and learn and the truth will set you free. They are like those when Moses came down from the mountain to find many worshiping the golden calf. Today they still worship the golden calf located outside Wall Street. Think about that for a minute, do you really want to be associated with that? If you are feeding them your hard earned money while they are preaching lies you are right in the middle of things. Is that what you want? How does it benefit you or your family? The Bible describes 2 roads, one full of people and one a narrow road that leads to salvation.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A13-14&version=NIV Even I know many of you are being misled. They have been hiding and lying to you. They are NOT Christian, Satan is not hiding anymore. He has been emboldened. Is he who you mean to follow? IF not Then you ned to get out of there!

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