The number of Muslim refugees from Syria who have been admitted into the U.S. far surpass the number of Christian refugees allowed in.
Is the discrepancy intentional? CNSNews.com editor Terry Jeffries talks to CBN News about the imbalance in Christian versus Muslim refugees.
Citing State Department numbers, CNS News.com reports that among the 1,103 refugees who have been let into the United States since the beginning of 2016, only three are Christians and more than 1,000 are Muslim.
The percentages break down to 95.7 percent Shia Muslim refugees and 0.4 percent Christian.
However, Christians represent about 10 percent of Syria's population and face more extreme persecution at the hands of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS).
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently announced that Christians are facing genocide by ISIS. The terror group has declared a caliphate in the territories it controls in Syria and Northern Iraq. Shia Muslims are also persecuted by them.
The Obama administration is pursuing a "surge operation" aimed at admitting 100,000 refugees from the Syrian war into America by September.
The speeded-up process reduces the 18 to 24 month vetting period to about three months, according to The New York Post (ITALICS).
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