Franklin Graham, Russell Moore Deportation of Iraqi Christians: 'It's a Death Sentence'
Franklin Graham says he finds it "very disturbing" that immigration authorities have arrested many Iraqi Christians for possible deportation and urged President Donald Trump to give "great consideration to the threat to lives of Christians in countries like Iraq."
Graham is not the only Christian leader to condemn the arrests; Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, tweeted: "This is wrong, wrong, wrong. A death sentence for those we should be protecting."
The Washington Post notes that the arrests came after a deal the United States made with Iraq, which sought to be removed from Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries and agreed to accept deported Iraqis....