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After signing a law protecting Christmas and other holiday celebrations inTexas public schools from legal challenges Texas Governor Rick Perry, center hands the pen to Reagan Bohac, 8, son of the bill s sponsor, Houston Republican Rep. Dwayne Bohac, fifth from left, Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Texas Legislature, Stephen Stephanian)

During the signing event for the controversial “Merry Christmas Bill,” Texas Governor Rick Perry had a crystal clear message for Atheist activists who have their own crusade to take the church-state separatism to the extreme. He made it known that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee “freedom from religion.”

Christians Targeted in Deadly Egypt Blast
A car exploded last November in front of a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, as worshipers emerge from a New Year’s Mass, killing more than 20 people and prompting a clash with Muslims at a nearby mosque.

Tolerance seems to be a one way street when 100,000 Christians are killed annually because of their faith, according to the Vatican reports. Human rights groups claim that anti-Christian violence is on the rise in muslim countries like Pakistan, Nigeria and Egypt. Vatican spokesman, Monsieur Silvano Maria Tomassi, said Tuesday in a radio address to the United Nations Human Rights Council:

Credible research has reached the shocking conclusion that an estimate of more than 100,000 Christians are violently killed because of some relation to their faith every year.

Tomassi also said:

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