Source: Christian Headlines, March 25, 2019<\/p>\n
According to The Washington Examiner<\/a>, the UK\u2019s Home Office, which oversees immigration and passports, rejected a man\u2019s application for asylum, saying the applicant\u2019s claim that Christianity is \u201cpeaceful\u201d is \u201cinconsistent\u201d with the Bible.<\/p>\n The Home Office said in its denial letter that books of the Bible such as Leviticus, Exodus, Matthew, and Revelation are \u201cfilled with imagery of revenge, destruction, death, and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese examples are inconsistent with your claim that you converted to Christianity after discovering it is a \u2018peaceful\u2019 religion, as opposed to Islam which contains violence, rage, and revenge,\u201d the letter says.<\/p>\n A legal expert told The Examiner<\/em> that its likely that this decision is more anti-asylum than anti-Christian.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Home Office is notorious for coming up with any reason they can to refuse asylum and this looks like a particularly creative example, but not necessarily a systemic outbreak of anti-Christian sentiment in the department,\u201d legal expert Conor James said.<\/p>\n In an opinion column for The Examiner<\/em>, Becket Adams said there seems to be a \u201ctrend in the UK of government officials taking explicitly anti-Christian positions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb In other news related to global migration, readers might be interested in the story of an eight-year-old refugee who won the New York State chess championship<\/a>\u2014and evidently many people\u2019s hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Christian Headlines, March 25, 2019 According to The Washington Examiner, the UK\u2019s Home Office, which oversees immigration and passports, rejected a man\u2019s application for asylum, saying the applicant\u2019s claim that Christianity is \u201cpeaceful\u201d is \u201cinconsistent\u201d with the Bible. The Home Office said in its denial letter that books of the Bible such as Leviticus, … Continue reading UK: Iranian Christian Denied Asylum Because \u201cChristianity Isn\u2019t a Peaceful Religion\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8459,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions\/8459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}