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Adam
Kredo - JUNE 24, 2020
A Christian advocacy group gave
three Republicans failing grades for not standing up for vulnerable religious
populations in the Middle East.
In Defense of Christians (IDC),
an advocacy group that works to implement policies that aid vulnerable
Christian populations in the Middle East, released this week a set of scorecards grading
Senate lawmakers on their support for these issues.
The group issued three failing
grades to Republican senators Rand Paul (Ky.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), and David
Perdue (Ga.) based on their lack of support for legislation combating human
rights abuses across the Middle East. Every other Republican and Democratic
senator received a passing grade.
Christian populations are
routinely persecuted in the Middle East by hostile governments. IDC and similar
groups have pushed a range of congressional measures meant to boost America’s
role in stopping these crimes.
"The scorecard shows a clear
bipartisan commitment in the world’s leading deliberative body to upholding
values and principles that are important to protecting religious pluralism in
the region at a time when vulnerable populations are under constant threat from
terrorist organizations such as ISIS and regional governments hostile to
Christians," the group said in a statement.
The senators given failing grades
obstructed legislation that would recognize the Armenian genocide, fund the
prevention of mass atrocities overseas, and oppose Turkey's human rights abuses
against Christians and other groups in Syria, according to the IDC.
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