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Middle East Christianity and RFRA

Cardinal Timothy Dolan has written a powerful call to action on the persecution of Middle East Christianity. Naturally CNN over dramatized it with the headline, “Will this be Christians’ last Easter in Iraq?” But the point of the article is powerful and troubling. Cardinal Dolan writes, “Rarely since the first century has the church in the East faced persecution on this scale.”
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It struck me how much time we’ve recently spent debating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. People on both sides are up in arms because they feel threatened. These are important conversations we need have as a nation, but …