Father Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, on Sunday spoke out on Newsmax in support of the Druze, a minority sect in Syria, after Israel stepped in to help restore order amidst their persecution by Islamists, and he called for an end to violence in the name of religion.

“Not being afraid to use the word Islamic terrorism, this is key to solving a problem,” Pavone said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “We have to be able to name the problem. And first of all, I mean, it’s such an insult to God that people do religious violence in the name of religion.”

When Christians look at the cross, they see a “God who absorbed violence against himself,” but religious persecution is “exactly the opposite” of the “heart of God,” Pavone said.

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