Belgian minister under fire for favoring Christian migrants over others

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Belgium’s State Secretary for Asylum and Migration came under fire for implying that the country favors Christian asylum seekers over non-Christians, reports said.

In a message posted to celebrate the Easter holiday on his official Twitter account, minister Theo Francken from the far-right New Flemish Alliance (N-VA Party) said that Belgium has welcomed 903 Syrian Christian asylum seekers since 2015 and that he sees it as a “duty” to serve the Syrian Christians.

Non-governmental organizations criticized Francken’s post for being discriminatory as he only touched upon the suffering of Christian migrants, even though others suffer just as much.

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The minister had previously come under fire for anti-migrant statements.

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