Exclusive: Christian leaders say that President Donald Trump has the opportunity to correct an error of the Biden era by stopping the deportations of believers who face torture or death.
As thousands of Christians recovered from Santa Duration, the leaders of the United States faith urged Trump to intervene and stop the deportation of Afghan Christians who face almost the Taliban.
On April 10, the Department of National Security (DHS) announced that it would qualify humanitarian probation for Afghan citizens, ordering thousands of thousands of USA. UU. In a matter of days.
Early reports referring to change as the completion of temporary protected state (TPS), the internal notifications of the DHS confirm that the affected Afghans were in fact under humanitarian probation. The failure was repeated by the media and the DHS, but the bone has been corrected in the official notes of the defense groups.
The Trump administration ends the temporary protected state for thousands of Afghans in the midst of deportation impulse
Policy change affects about 9,000 Afghans who legally live in the United States while waiting for visas of special immigrants (SIV) or asylum award.
Among them, according to the documents obeyed exclusively by Fox News Digital, there are hundreds of Christians, many of which became after the withdrawal of the United States of 2021 of Afghanistan, and now face a danger that creates life under the Taliban government.
The Taliban forces take control or Hamid Karzai International Airport after the end of the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2021. (Wali Sabawoon/Anadolu agency through Getty Images)
“We believe that the 9,000 could face the persecution when returning to the Taliban, but we are particularly concerned about a group of hundreds of Christians who believe that it will face an immediate threat of torture or death,” says a memorandum of the coalition.
The document sent to Trump and copied Vice President JD Vance; The secretary of the DHS, Kristi, calls; President of the Mike Johnson house, R-La.; and sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Ask for a 90-day break about deportations to allow the time of legal roads or protections.
Republican Party Party of the House of Representatives on the retirement of Biden from Afghanistan
Its proposal includes a “list of exemptions examined and qualified”, identifying Christians with greater risk to help DHS restore humanitarian protections or accelerate asylum or SIV review.
An individual on that list, who uses the pseudonym “Nashinas”, is an Afghan Christian who was tortured by the Taliban in 2021, then resettled in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is now active in his local church. Despite having requested asylum, he recovered a formal notice of the DHS ordering his departure.
The time of the Holy Week of Taring Taring has energized Christian leaders in the United States and worldwide.
“This is not just a legal problem; it is moral,” according to the Durable Hope Alliance (EHA). “As Christians worldwide reflect on the sacrifice of Christ, we are asked to reject other believers who face true persecution.”
Afghanistan’s refugees walk through Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, on August 31, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
EHA, a coalition of churches, veterans, non -profit organizations and volunteers formed after the withdrawal of 2021 of the Biden Administration of Afghanistan, helped rescue and reset about a thousand Christian converts and allies of the US army. It reports to spend millions of private donations and thousands or hours of volunteering to take people persecuted to security.
“This is a time for the administration to show compassion and leadership,” said a source close to EHA to Fox News Digital. “We are not asking for open borders. We are asking for a narrow and temporary solution to protect lives that are clearly at risk.”
The suicide bombardment of August 26, 2021 at the Kabul Abbey Gate that killed 13 members of the US Service. It remains a defining failure of the withdrawal of the United States. Faith leaders argue that this is an opportunity for the Trump administration to fix one of the most painful consequences of those persecuted Christians who abandon the decision of the Biden era.
“The withdrawal of Afghanistan was one of the darkest chapters of American foreign policy,” said Mike Mannina, a former Bush White Casa official, leads the rescue alliance. He never spoke publicly about it until now.
“What followed, he thought, was one of our best hours: thousands of everyday Americans who took a step forward to save lives. I hate seeing that job without doing.”
An Afghan woman holds a baby on a bus after arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, on August 31, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Reverend Franklin Graham, president of the Samaritan bag, said he believes that there may now be more time to resolve the crisis.
“No, it didn’t appear in the White House,” said Graham. “But I understand by Kristi’s name: she said that it is Julio, that Afghans have until July, or the government will work with them until July to solve this work. Then, they seemed to live to be Hortay. [it’s] July. So, they have more time to solve this visa problem. “
DHS has not publicly confirmed any extension. Multiple Afghan Christians received notices that gave them seven days to leave the country.
Independent groups, including the commission of the International Religious Freedom and Human Rights Commission of the United States, confirm that Afghan Christians are specifically addressed to the Taliban government. The conversion of Islam is considered apostasy and punishes death.
President Donald Trump leans his head during a prayer in the Passover Prayer Service and dinner in the Blue House Room in Washington, DC, Wednesday. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
“Afghan Christians are in a more vulnerable position today under the Taliban that even Christians were under ISIS,” says an evaluation of help to the persecuted.
Defenders say that thesis deportation people would violate both the values of the United States and international law, which prohibits people from returning to countries where they face probable torture or death.
Josh Youssef, founder of Help The Persecuted, said Trump has a clear opportunity to correct a serious evil that leaves the retreat of Afghanistan from the Biden administration.
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“We know that Christians were beaten, imprisoned and even killed by the Taliban,” Youssef told Fox News Digital. “Now, as some of those same people face deportation, President Trump can take a scalpel, not a hammer, and protect people with a real risk of death by their faith.
“This is Good Friday,” he added. “It is unthinkable to send Christians back to a country where they could face their own crucifixion. We are asking the president to fix it.”
The DHS did not respond immediately to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
