Amazon Bowed to White House Pressure to Suppress Books Skeptical of COVID-19 Vaccines

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Amazon yielded to pressure from President Joe Biden’s White House to suppress books that opposed COVID-19 vaccines, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Signal.

The House Judiciary Committee obtained the emails, which demonstrate the White House’s pressure on Amazon to suppress “anti-vax books” and the company’s decision to take action against the books.

Amazon employees strategized for a meeting with the White House on March 9, 2021, openly asking whether the administration wanted the retailer to remove books from its catalog.

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This week on FOT: WHO “pandemic treaty”: Free speech on college campuses and a college president vs. DEI.

Listen now: https://faith-on-trial.simplecast.com/episodes/chris-gacek-matt-lamb-2-10-2024-pjXunxEx

 

Virginia bishops rally faithful against assisted suicide

As legislation to legalize assisted suicide in Virginia quickly advances to floor debates in both the state House and Senate, bishops from the dioceses of Arlington and Richmond are calling on Catholics to protest the bills. “Please contact your state Senator and Delegate,” Bishops Michael Burbidge and Barry Knestout wrote in a February 5 statement. READ

Indiana AG launches portal for parents to keep eye on schools

Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita launched “Eyes on Education,” an online portal that gives parents a greater role in the state’s public schools. “This is a tool to empower parents in their dealings with their own school system so they can better raise their kids, which is their job and not [that of] the school,” Rokita explained.  READ

DC Medical Examiner Told to Dispose of Baby Bodies Despite Evidence Pointing to Federal Crimes

 Thomas More Society Attorneys Call on House Judiciary Chair to Intervene and Bring Macabre Abortionist to Justice

(February 8, 2024 – Washington, DC) Five dead babies, suspected of being victims of illegal and very late term abortions, are the main subject of a letter to Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) from Thomas More Society Senior Counsel Martin Cannon. Jordan, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is being asked to halt the scheduled destruction of these infant remains, set for February 9, 2024, and investigate the deaths as evidence of a federal crime in Washington, DC. 

Recovered by a medical waste truck driver outside the Washington Surgi-Clinic abortion business operated by Dr. Cesare Santangelo, the babies’ masticated corpses were handed over to Lauren Handy. Cannon is one of the Thomas More Society trial attorneys defending Handy against heavy-handed prosecution by the Biden Department of Justice for her attempts to stop such abortions in the Santangelo facility. The age and condition of the deceased newborns raise serious questions about whether they were legally aborted. 

In the letter to Jordan, Cannon states that the body of evidence makes it “more likely than not that some babies” at the Santangelo abortion facility are “in fact born alive and left to die.” 

Cannon’s letter to Rep. Jordan details how the medical examiner's office has had the babies for nearly two years. On February 5, 2024, the news surfaced that the examiner’s office had been told by the Biden administration that they could dispose of these infant bodies. 

With no autopsies performed on their nearly full-term carcasses and no investigation into their deaths conducted, there is no ability to conclude that the preborn children were legally aborted. 

Rather, the letter details a collection of damning indicators that strongly suggest that not only were these five babies killed in violation of federal law, but that this illegal termination of live infants continues at the Santangelo abattoir. 

Cannon offers up the following support for Jordan’s intervention:

• Abortions done after a fetus has passed an 18-week gestation point, performed by labor induction and not dismemberment within the womb, without using a feticide to kill the child ahead of time, will result 50% of the time in “transient fetal survival,” also known as a living baby arriving outside the womb during an attempted abortion. The rate of live birth increases at even later gestational ages. [The Society of Family Planning, 2011].
• This was confirmed separately in a 2018 study of 241 such abortions. In abortions performed on babies at 20- and 24-week gestation, with labor induction in lieu of feticide, live births occurred in 122 of them, or 50.6%. The mean survival time for these aborted babies born alive was just over half an hour, with some of these aborted newborns surviving up to 4½ hours. [Springer, et al., 2018].
• Cesare Santangelo has acknowledged on video that he conducts abortions far beyond 18 weeks, with labor inducing drugs as opposed to dismemberment, and no feticide. Santangelo also appears to admit that live births occur.
• Also documented on video, Santangelo confesses that if a baby he aborts is born alive, he will not assist it.
• The federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act provides that a child born alive during an attempted abortion is a person. That child is thus entitled to all protections any other person would receive under the law. That means that such an infant is entitled to assistance from medical personnel, and failure to assist that baby is criminal.
• Federal law prohibits partial birth abortions.
• The five deceased babies which the medical examiner has planned to destroy all died very late term, bearing signs of live birth or partial birth abortion. One of those infants died or was killed at what is clearly more than 30-weeks gestation, well beyond the point of viability.

The five dead infants were recovered in March 2022 by Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac. These babies were boxed up with the remains of more than 115 aborted children which Handy and Bukovinac retrieved from a Curtis-Bay waste truck outside the Santangelo business. The five late term babies were promptly turned over to local law enforcement, because of the macabre indicators pointing to the likely criminal manner of their death.

Cannon informs Jordan that, “It is INCONCEIVABLE that viable children are not being born alive at the Santangelo clinic and simply left to die.”

Read the letter to Representative Jim Jordan requesting a Congressional Inquiry on Aborted Children dated February 7, 2024, by Thomas More Society Senior Counsel Martin Cannon, here.

Links to referenced sources [annotated] and photographic evidence [warning: photos may be disturbing]:

• Santangelo Video Transcript - Dr. Santangelo Consultation
• Baby photo (“Christopher X”)

The following documents and photos are available upon request.

• Baby photo (“Angel”)
• Baby photo (“Hariett”)
• Baby photo (“Holly”)
• Baby photo (“Pheonix”)
• Society of Family Planning - Contraception 84 (2011) 4-18, Clinical Guidelines, Labor induction abortion in the second trimester - Release date February 2011
• Obstetrics & Gynecol. 2018 March - Fetal Survival in Second-Trimester Termination of Pregnancy Without Feticide, Stephanie Springer et al.

About Thomas More Society

Thomas More Society is a national not-for-profit law firm dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and freedom. Headquartered in Chicago and with offices across the country, Thomas More Society fosters support for these causes by providing high quality pro bono legal services from local trial courts all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. For more information, please visit thomasmoresociety.org.

Heartbeat International Fights Back Against California’s Attempt to Force Women to Abort Their Babies

 Thomas More Society Attorneys Ask Court to Throw Out AG's  Lawsuit

(February 6, 2024 – Oakland, California) Today, Thomas More Society attorneys asked a California Superior Court to throw out the lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta against Heartbeat International and RealOptions Obria Medical Clinics, over their advocacy for “Abortion Pill Reversal,” the medical intervention provided to women who decide to reverse their in-progress chemical abortions. The hundreds of pages of argument and evidence represent the most comprehensive legal counterattack by the pro-life movement against recent legal maneuvers by state government officials like Bonta who are trying to interfere with and stop the efforts of pregnancy centers to help women who regret and want to reverse their chemical abortions.

 

Heartbeat International, an international network of thousands of pregnancy centers, provides referrals to medical providers for women who are seeking to reverse their chemical abortions through its Abortion Pill Rescue® Network, which is the target of Bonta’s lawsuit, along with the RealOptions pregnancy centers in California, which provide Abortion Pill Reversal services. Abortion Pill Reversal is the process of providing supplemental progesterone to counteract the anti-progesterone effects of the first pill (mifepristone) of the two-pill chemical abortion regimen.

 

“Women undergoing chemical abortions deserve the truth: even after starting a chemical abortion, they may still be able to save their babies,” remarked attorney Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation. “California and its Attorney General Rob Bonta are illegally and unconstitutionally seeking to rip away ‘choice’ from women in dire need by attacking pregnancy help ministries like Heartbeat and RealOptions, to shut down their promotion of Abortion Pill Reversal. Abortion Pill Reversal provides real hope for women who want to stop their abortions and continue their pregnancies. Today’s massive legal filings mark the most ambitious and broad-based counterattack by the pro-life movement against the efforts of state officials, like Rob Bonta, who intend to prevent women from accessing this potentially life-saving treatment option.”

 

Heartbeat International President Jor-El Godsey agrees:

 

“California should be more concerned with helping women who desperately want to continue their pregnancy,” stated Godsey. “Targeting women’s opportunity to reverse their abortion is an obvious act of misusing the goodwill of taxpayer funding to shill for Big Abortion.”

 

Bonta’s aggressive campaign to dismantle Heartbeat International’s Abortion Pill Rescue Network and shut down RealOptions’ Abortion Pill Reversal services went public when he filed a Complaint for Permanent Injunction against both, along with 100 unnamed “Does,” on September 21, 2023, in the Alameda County Superior Court of California.

 

“Despite overwhelming evidence of Abortion Pill Reversal services’ safety and effectiveness, this lawsuit makes outrageously false claims against Heartbeat International and RealOptions,” explained Paul Jonna, Thomas More Society Special Counsel and Partner, LiMandri and Jonna LLP. “Attorney General Bonta’s lawsuit aims to hide life-saving information from women regarding Abortion Pill Reversal. This is a desperate attempt by Bonta to eliminate any competition to the well-funded abortion lobby with which he has proudly partnered throughout his political career.”

 

In their February 6, 2024, filings, Thomas More Society attorneys advance three main arguments:

(1) The First Amendment protects the advocacy efforts and information provided by Heartbeat and RealOptions to women about Abortion Pill Reversal.

(2) On Bonta’s claims, the Superior Court cannot decide a “battle of scientific experts” between Heartbeat’s scientific studies and Bonta’s competing studies on Abortion Pill Reversal.

(3) California’s Reproductive Privacy Act and its Constitution totally immunize Heartbeat and RealOptions, prohibiting Bonta from interfering with their aid and assistance to pregnant women who want to stop and reverse their chemical abortions.

Among the information provided to the Superior Court, Thomas More Society provided compelling evidence of the safety of supplemental progesterone for pregnant women and its effectiveness in countering the effects of mifepristone, the first pill of the two-pill chemical abortion regimen. In particular, progesterone has been safely used by obstetrician-gynecologists for decades to thwart potential miscarriage in pregnant women.

Read the Memoranda in support of Demurrers, on behalf of Heartbeat International and RealOptions, and of Motion to Quash Service, on behalf of Heartbeat International, filed February 6, 2024, by Thomas More Society attorneys in the Superior Court of the State of California – County of Alameda, in The People of the State of California v. Heartbeat International & RealOptions, here.

The complete collection of court documents filed February 6 is available here.
 

About Heartbeat International

Heartbeat International has been providing pro-life pregnancy resources since its inception in 1971. Today, it is the largest and most expansive network in the world with nearly 3,500 affiliated pregnancy help locations providing life-affirming alternatives to abortion. For more information, please visit heartbeatinternational.org.

 

About RealOptions

RealOptions Obria Medical Clinics provide well woman care, STD testing & treatment, pregnancy testing, ultrasound imaging, prenatal care, and Abortion Pill Reversal services at five Sacramento, California, region locations in Central San Jose, East San Jose, Oakland, Redwood City, and Union City. For more information, please visit realoptions.net.    

 

About Thomas More Society

Thomas More Society is a national not-for-profit law firm dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and freedom. Headquartered in Chicago and with offices across the country, Thomas More Society fosters support for these causes by providing high quality pro bono legal services from local trial courts all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. For more information, please visit thomasmoresociety.org.

FBI DELETED INFO ON ANTI-CATHOLIC MEMO

According to a group of 16 Republican senators, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) deleted records pertaining to its anti-Catholic memo after former agent and whistleblower Kyle Seraphin leaked it a year ago. “Now we know that information related to the Richmond memo wasn’t provided to Congress because the FBI deleted the records as soon as the incident became public,” the senators wrote in a Wednesday letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.  READ

Biden taps faux Catholic for new role

President Joe Biden last week replaced Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry with John Podesta. A self-proclaimed Catholic, Podesta once admitted in a leaked email that he had been involved in “creating” Catholic front groups for the purpose of undermining the teachings of the Church and getting Catholics to reject what one of his colleagues called its “middle ages dictatorship.”  READ

Vatican releases new document on liturgy and sacraments

The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a note on Saturday on discerning the validity of the sacraments. The new document signed by Pope Francis and DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Fernández is titled “Gestis Verbisque,” or “Deeds and Words.”  READ

A note from the Iowa Catholic Conference

Monday February 5, 2024

Legislative committees will be busy the next couple of weeks as the first funnel deadline approaches. Later this month we’ll be posting some action alerts as bills start to be debated on the floor of the chambers.

Several bills involving the migration issue were considered last week. The House Judiciary Committee passed HF 2128, which would forbid state universities from offering in-state tuition rates to students who can’t prove legal presence in the state. We might want to keep in mind we may already invested thousands of dollars in the education of these young people for many years, and in some cases, this bill might stop us from getting a return on our investment.

It was a good sign that the Iowa House’s version of an e-verify mandate bill failed in a House subcommittee last week, although the Senate version, SF 108, also passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill would mandate the use of the optional federal e-verify system. It’s the ICC’s opinion that this bill is duplicative in part because the federal government is already authorized to investigate employment violations in this context.

Also last week, the “smuggling of humans” bill, HF 2112, passed a House Judiciary subcommittee. We are working to improve the bill.  The Church does not encourage illegal immigration but is concerned the bill as drafted could be interpreted by some to criminalize providing basic charity to immigrants.

A bill to bring back the death penalty (SSB 3085) passed a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. The ICC spoke in opposition. A cycle of violence should be broken without taking yet another life, especially since innocent people have been executed. During the meeting, the chair of the subcommittee said they intend to amend the bill to narrow its effects to those who kill peace officers.

Both the House and Senate had subcommittee hearings for the bills revamping Iowa’s Area Education Agencies. The House subcommittee did not advance the bill, and the Senate members of the subcommittee, while passing it, made it clear that there would have to be substantial changes. There is a feeling among many legislators that it would be helpful to review how AEAs use their funding and provide services. Nonpublic schools and many special education students in nonpublic schools receive services from AEAs. Stay tuned. 

The House’s version of the Iowa MOMS “fix-up” bill, HF 2267, has passed the Health and Human Services Committee. SSB 3114 also passed a Senate subcommittee. The bills would expand the number of organizations who could receive funding to aid pregnant women. 

Later today (Monday) and tomorrow, there are subcommittee meetings scheduled to consider the Governor’s proposal to make sure that mothers with Medicaid coverage can receive care for a full year after the birth of their child. Currently mothers have coverage for 60 days after the birth. The ICC supports the bills. Medicaid is the primary payor for births in Iowa.

The Senate State Government Committee passed the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” religious liberty bill, SF 2095. The same bill on the House side, HSB 614, passed a House subcommittee last week. RFRA creates a balancing test in the courts to weigh a person’s right to act consistent with their religion against the government’s desire to pursue its interests in a way that violates that right.

Dis-information please

By Deacon Mike Manno

(The Wanderer)  --  It seems that every time we turn on television or radio, or check out the news on the internet, we are constantly faced with the claim of dis- or mis-information. It has almost become a national parlor game, and it would be laughable if it was not so serious.

          It has led to calls for more governmental regulations over the internet and cable services, all of which are necessary to protect the citizenry from those great evil misinformers. It’s called many nice names, such as media literacy. But the bottom line is that it is actually censorship

          And, of course, we all remember the real disinformation campaign used by the FBI and other federal agencies working with Big Tech to – in the name of truth – hide, cover-up, and distort information that was harmful to their political friends.

          You might also remember a year or so ago an apparently empty-headed political bureaucrat (who wasn’t that dumb) from the Department of Homeland Security by the name of Nina Jankowicz, Mr. Biden’s disinformation czar. She suddenly appeared singing a song about misinformation to a Mary Poppins melody, chastising the former Trump Administration and other “enemies” of the current administration. Who can forget, “♪Disinformation laundering is quite ferocious♫.”

          Fortunately for the consuming public, the Department of Homeland Security put a nix on the program so all appeared safe. But it did not end there, it only went underground.

          The other week on my radio program we had the managing editor of NewsBusters.org, Curtis Houck. NewsBusters is part of the Media Research Center (MRC), which acts to police the national news media, exposing what it claims to be a leftist bias in media and is a leading conservative voice combatting that bias.

          Mr. Houck reported on the MRC’s recently completed Censorship Investigation Project. That report warned of the danger of a “disinformation project” that operated within the government along with some financial help from some of the usual left wing financiers.

          According to the MRC report, the disinformation project began under the State Department and was eventually transferred to the Department of Homeland Security, the agency Ms. Jankowicz was with when her little “Mary Poppins” ditty blew the whistle on her role as disinformation czar.   

          The report was entitled: How the Biden Administration Pushed German Censorship to American Teachers. Basically the program was used to train U.S. teachers on how to facilitate disinformation and censorship campaigns in U.S. schools. The idea was to train teachers to inoculate students in media literacy and disinformation with the aim of discouraging reliance on legitimate and reputable news sites in favor of those skewered toward sites favoring the progressive left and containing anti-American propaganda.

          Under the program over 1,000 U. S. teachers were invited to seminars where they would be given course outlines they could use in their schools. While the entire operation of the program is too lengthy and involved for a newspaper column, part of what was given to the teachers were two web sites that they should recommend to their schools and students to download.

          One was NewsGuard, and the other was Ad Fontes. Both were search sites that ranked the web sites students might use in doing on-line research. According to MRC’s study, NewsGuard “ranked leftist media 20 percentage points higher, on average, than right leading media.” The same was true for Ad Fontes, which favored leftist sites over conservative sites by a two to one margin. Remember the aim: get schools and students to find the leftist sites before conservative ones.

          [The use of taxpayer funds to back NewsGuard is the subject of a lawsuit by the Federalist Society, The Daily Wire, and the State of Texas.]

          The idea, as you can plainly see, is to get students using the leftist sites in their school and personal use. The teacher seminars taught attendees how to get NewsGuard installed on their school’s computer systems, thus tilting all search results left.

          MRC also noted that in a previous report it had found that both NewsGuard and Ad Fontes had, prior to this effort, worked with “Big Tech” on other projects to drive people away from conservative media.

          Training for the program was done through the University of Rhode Island Media Education Lab in conjunction with the German University of Würzburg’s Media Education & Educational Technology Lab. The use of the terms “media education” and “media training” camouflage their real purpose to mask the fact that it is not an academic study but a left leaning program that encourages disinformation with a leftward bent.

          Besides the use of computer programs, such as NewsGuard, to suppress conservative sites, teachers were taught to use certain games that fostered a leftward viewpoint and to reject conservative influences. It also uses blog posts to spread their ideas. Many of the blog posts attacked Donald Trump and MAGA extremists, including:

          “It won’t be easy but we really have to reduce Trump’s influence,” and “We are all living in darkness, scary [and] angry, less hopeful country thanks to Mr. Trump.” All of this was to be taught to children who were encouraged to chime in and post similar thoughts. And all was done on the taxpayer’s dime, by those who claim to be preserving democracy for future generations.  

          By the way, funding from the Department of Homeland Security came from its program to target violence and prevent terrorism.

          MRC and NewsBusters compiled the report by obtaining documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), official government reports, as well as media reports.

          The full report is on the NewsBuster web site. That site gives you an option which allows the report to be read to you, a handy option for someone like me who has problems reading. The radio interview was taped the morning of January 18, and was broadcast on the eight stations of the Iowa Catholic Radio Network twice over the following weekend. It can also be found on the station’s website (below) as a podcast. It is Episode 397.

Dad sues school district for trying to ‘transition’ daughter

A widowed single father filed suit against a New Jersey school district that he alleges “transitioned” his minor daughter behind his back. A pro-LGBT student club’s staff advisor told colleagues at the school to refer to the girl by a male name and male pronouns and not to tell her father.  READ

Federal Government Warned Banks About ‘Extremists’ Who Bought Bibles

CV NEWS FEED // An agency of the federal government “flagged” Bible purchases as an indication of “extremism” in communications with banks following the events of January 6, 2021.

“We now know the federal government flagged terms like ‘MAGA’ and ‘TRUMP,’ to financial institutions if Americans completed transactions using those terms,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-OH, wrote on X. “What was also flagged? If you bought a religious text, like a BIBLE, or shopped at Bass Pro Shop.”

 

He detailed the Committee and Select Subcommittee’s findings in a January 17 letter to former Director of the Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Noah Bishoff.

 

“[F]ollowing January 6, 2021, FinCEN distributed materials to financial institutions that … outline the ‘typologies’ of various persons of interest and provide financial institutions with suggested search terms … for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement,” Jordan wrote:

 

"These materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like ‘TRUMP’ and ‘MAGA’ to ‘search Zelle payment messages’ as well as a ‘prior FinCEN analysis’ of ‘Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators.”

His letter went on to note that the government had also instructed banks to monitor purchases of firearms as well as “Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies.”

 

“Despite these transactions having no apparent criminal nexus—and, in fact, relate to Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights—FinCEN seems to have adopted a characterization of these Americans as potential threat actors,” Jordan continued.

 

“This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious doubts about FinCEN’s respect for fundamental civil liberties,” he concluded.

 

FinCEN is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Former Army Green Beret Jim Hanson described the agency’s move as “one of the most egregious violations of our Constitution I can ever recall.”

“The federal government is enlisting financial institutions” to “spy on citizens with the sole justification” that they “are political opponents,” he added.

Your Pilot Is a DEI Hire. Good Luck! —Ep. 326 Fireside Chat

Navy Vet Charged with ‘Hate Crime’ For Destroying Satanic Display in Iowa Capitol

CV NEWS FEED // The Christian navy veteran who destroyed the Satanic display in the Iowa State Capitol building just weeks before Christmas has been charged with committing a “hate crime” for his actions. 

In December, the Satanic Temple put up a temporary “holiday Satanic display” in the Iowa state capitol. On December 14, Michael Cassidy of Mississippi beheaded the cloaked, ram-headed idol at the center of the display and threw its head into a nearby garbage can. 

Cassidy turned himself in to police at the capitol after destroying the display, which included a Satanic altar. Cassidy was initially charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. 

This month, after assessing damage costs, law enforcement officials escalated Cassidy’s charge to a class D felony.

“Court documents say the cost to replace or repair the property is between $750 and $1,500,” reported KCCI of Des Moines. “They also show that the act was committed ‘in violation of individual rights’ under Iowa’s hate crime statute.”

The Polk County Attorney Office stated Tuesday that the evidence was clear that Cassidy “destroyed the property because of the victim’s religion,” which “enhances the charge….”

[Ed. Note: The Polk County Attorney is Democrat Kimberly Graham who was elected with the help of the George Soros organizations.]

Cassidy’s arraignment is February 15. If convicted, under current Iowa state law Cassidy could face up to five years in prison and extensive fines. 

Cassidy told the Republic Sentinel shortly after his actions in the Iowa capitol, “I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged. My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”

“The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” Cassidy added.

After Cassidy destroyed the Satanic display, thousands of people donated to a fundraiser to help cover his legal fees. Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and attorney Davis Younts is representing Cassidy in court, the Sentinel previously reported:

“My client was motivated by his faith to peacefully protest a display that is a direct affront to God,” Younts told The Sentinel. “When others, including elected leaders, were unwilling to act, he peacefully removed the display. It is my hope that the citation will be dismissed when my client’s actions are understood and that he will not face prosecution because of his faith.”