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    HR306 - RETURNING STOLEN CHURCHES TO CHRISTIANS POSTED AUGUST 1, 2011

    Chattanoogan
    http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_206220.asp
    Aug 1, 2011

    The Return of Churches and the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.

    306, introduced by Congressmen Robert Dold (R-IL) and Adam Schiff
    (D-CA), safeguards Christian heritage. The Christian rights legislation
    reflects and reaffirms the long and proud history of principled
    leadership by the U.S. Congress in protecting religious freedom
    abroad-for Christians and for peoples of all faiths. The religious
    freedom measure represents an effort to highlight, confront, and
    eventually reverse decades of official Turkish policy of destroying
    Christian church properties, desecrating holy sites, discriminating
    against Christian communities, and denying of the right of Armenians,
    Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Pontians, Arameans (Syriacs), and others
    to practice their faith in freedom.

    The measure is consistent with many other resolutions adopted by the
    U.S. House over the past several decades defending religious freedom
    and protecting sacred sites and places of worship, as well as with the
    International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 and America's longstanding
    leadership in supporting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

    Despite the fact that the bill was passed by the Foreign Affairs
    Committee almost unanimously, Freshman Congressman Chuck Fleischmann
    (R-TN) chose not to co-sponsor it.

    Calls and visits to Mr. Fleischmann's staff were either ignored or
    hastily terminated; it is abundantly clear that discrimination against
    Christians is of no importance to Mr. Fleischmann.

    The bill will come before the House of Representatives within the next
    several months. I encourage you to contact Mr. Fleischmann's office and
    request that he show support for our Christian brothers and sisters
    abroad, and vote in favor of it. Seeing as our rights as Americans
    are being further restricted every day by the current government,
    it is imperative to set a precedent of supporting other Christians,
    as the time may well come - given the administration that we have -
    when it is the Christians of America who are being persecuted and
    whose rights are being taken away.

    Bearj Barsoumian Harrison

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