They were late out of the starting gate, missing the deadline in November for naming the top violators of religious freedom. But the U.S. State Department announced this week that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the CPC designations.
There have been tragic attacks on American churches, such as the recent horrific murder of nine African American Christians at Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, but I don't know any American Christians who go to church consciously thinking, "I may die today, but I am going to church; I don't know what will happen, but Jesus is with me."