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The Obama administration never seems to miss an opportunity to display its bias for Muslims against Christians. The State Dept. is in the habit of inviting scores of Muslim representatives but denying visas to solitary Christian representatives. While habitually ignoring the slaughter of Christians at hands of Boko Haram, the administration called for the \u201chuman rights\u201d of the jihadi murderers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite all the evident joy and anticipated pronouncements coming during Pope Francis\u2019s visit to this hemisphere, it is a worrisome day for orthodox Christians. \u00a0Francis never met with Catholic dissidents in Cuba, and professed not to know that many had been detained so that they could not see him. \u00a0Now we have news from Raymond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2043,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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