Anti-Christian persecution is one of the areas “where Pres. Trump and Pope Francis can do business,” US Vatican reporter, John L. Allen Jr., stated. (The others were the “obvious” issue of abortion as well as the anti-transgender “gender theory” and “religious freedom” to discriminate against LGBTQ persons) “Pope Francis repeatedly has referred to what he calls an ‘ecumenism of blood’ and also stressed there are more Christian martyrs today than in the early era of the Church,” Allen wrote. On Jan. 28, the pope said "Modern martyrs exemplify true Christian unity" referencing in particular the kidnappings by ISIS. The pope has never acknowledged that many more Muslims than Christians have been killed, maimed and raped by ISIS, “Western wars killed four million Muslims between 1990 and April 2015,” and “11 million Muslim-on-Muslim killings between 1948 and 2013.”