The Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, Bashar Warda, has commended President Trump’s concern for persecuted Christians:

the fact that an American administration seems to know that there are Christians and other religious minorities here who need help is something I find heartening. I hope this means that we will no longer be excluded from U.S. government and UN aid, which our people desperately need.

In an exclusive interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump recently pledged to give persecuted Christians priority as refugees. Trump also stated:

They’ve been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States?

There are those within the Christian ranks however, who fear the backlash of rage from Muslims if Christians are helped; there are also those who seem unmoved by the longstanding plight of persecuted Christians because they are gripped by moral relativism. Archbishop Louis Sako of Iraq, who is the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon, is an example of this phenomenon. He slammed Trump’s intention to help the persecuted Church, calling Trump’s concern about Christians “discriminating”:

These discriminating choices create and feed tensions with our Muslim fellow citizens. Those who seek help do not need to be divided according to religious labels.

Aiming to aid Christians has nothing to do with “religious label”; it has everything to do with ignoring the plight of the Christian that has worsened so severely since the war in Syria began. Christians have been beaten and bullied out of refugee camps by Muslims, and have faced sickening abuses within the Islamic State, with little hope of escape. But now that Trump has vowed to help Christians, he is getting slammed by the likes of Sako.

Bishop Laszlo Kiss-Rigo of southern Hungary, who once called the Pope wrong in stating that Catholics had a “moral duty” to help the hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees streaming into Europe, stated of Muslim refugees:

They’re not refugees. This is an invasion….They come here with cries of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ They want to take over….Europe is being overwhelmed by non-believers posing as refugees who pose a serious threat to the continent’s Christian, universal values.

“Iraqi archbishop hopeful Trump will aid Christians”, by Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News, February 8, 2017: