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"Let us protect religious liberty," he told the UN, "including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today – it's called Christianity."

My grandparents knew first hand what it was to be persecuted for who you were and what you thought or said.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Matthew J. Tragesser says US asylum law protects a "very limited number of persecuted aliens".

Sai and his wife decided to leave Thailand as they were worried of being deported back to Myanmar, also known as Burma, where Sai believes he will be persecuted for his activism against the junta.

But he’s far from the only Republican arguing that Christians are being persecuted if they are exposed to evidence that others disagree with their views.