Canadian Adjudicator To Refugee Claimant: "Not Catholic Enough"

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You're a refugee claimant. You're in a refugee claimant review. You're nervous. You're in a new country in the midst of strange people who seemingly hold life-or-death powers over you. You're sweating. You're a Christian. You're asked who the mother of Mary the mother of Jesus was, and who the mother of John the Baptist was.

Quick now, what's your answer? (please post in comments without looking at other comments' answers)

If you balked, you may be a Christian, but, in the eyes of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), not Christian enough.

He knew Mary was Jesus’ mother and that John baptized him but not the names of Mary’s and John’s mothers; correctly answered questions about the rosary and the seven sacraments; named books of the Old Testament but was uncertain what they were about; failed to note that 2009 was dedicated to St. Paul by the Catholic Church, and gave other answers that fell short of Ms. Andrachuk’s expectations. 

“I find, on a balance of probabilities, that the claimant is not and never was a genuine practicing Roman Catholic,” Ms. Andrachuk wrote. “I find that the claimant’s level of knowledge of the Catholic faith is not commensurate with someone who has been a Roman Catholic for three years.”

Fortunately a Canadian court had the good sense to strike down this ruling.

IRB adjudicator rebuked by court for refusing man who failed Catholic ‘trivia’


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Mr. Mayor, Post the Video

Acts 17 Apologetics, a Christian group, got slammed by the Dearborn Michigan authorities for speaking about Christ at an "Arab event".

They've been charged with disturbing the [Islamic] peace.

They face 90 days in jail. For speaking. In America.

The authorities confiscated their video camera. The mayor of Dearborn has been slamming them, slandering them, really, in public. They protest their innocence, and say the video footage will prove it.

He's got the video; why won't he release it?

Mr. Mayor, Post the video.

If the video exonerates them, the courts should give the mayor the 90 days he wants to give them. It's a Solomonic solution.

Their video defense, here, at Wintery Knight.

Tom Gilson of Thinking Christian was on this story from the get-go.

Detroit Free Press article here.

And that's the way the Solomonic Ball bounces.