One of the things I most regret about the attitude of the U.S. government is that no distinction is made in terms of priorities for emigration from the Middle East. I would think it would be obvious that those targeted with annihilation, i.e. people like the Yezidis and Christians, should be allowed to emigrate first, certainly before economic immigrants. Plus, for goodness sakes', they'd be the last people to be Islamist militants, and their priests, in the case of the Christians, who often have ties abroad, could vouch for their identity.
Yet, the government officials babble nonsense about how no priority can be given on the basis of religion. It's not about giving them preference because like most Westerners they're Christian, Orthodox or Eastern Catholic, but because they are most at risk. As Ygorcs said, they are facing an existential thread.
I worked some years ago for Catholic Charities in trying to get them asylum and sponsors in churches, and it was heartbreaking.
They are the best of immigrants, often skilled and educated, eager to assimilate, and pathetically grateful to be safe from their Muslim neighbors. The insanity extends to the fact that they're all mixed in together at the camps, and continue even there to be subject to harassment and outright violence.
The stupidity astounds me.
As for Pentecostals, I have to admit that they strain my tolerance, because they are so intolerant of others. Even here in the North, I know a few people who have gone down that road, and it's as if they've turned off their brains.
I have to say that I think they make their greatest inroads among Catholics and people from the mainstream Protestant Churches because with the decline in Catholic school education, and the watering down of theology courses even in the schools that remain, many people have no intellectual "ammunition" to combat some of the many idiocies that they spout. Jesuits they're not.
One thing my Catholic school education, all those daily theology classes did do is give me the ability to shut them up pretty fast. I once let a pair of Mormons on "Mission" into my living room on a rainy afternoon because I felt sorry for them, but after twenty minutes or so I couldn't stand any more. I felt badly twisting them into rhetorical knots, because like most Mormons I've met they were personally nice people, and painfully young and innocent, but I just couldn't bear listening to it.