Islamic State jihadists in Syria. (Photo: BosNewsLife)
Posted on 03/10/2015 9:14:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The International Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic organization, is reporting that some of its members in Syria were kidnapped by the Islamic State last week and told that if the adults do not deny their Christian faith, they will be decapitated and “their children burned alive in cages.”
Islamic State jihadists in Syria. (Photo: BosNewsLife)
In Famvin News, a website for the Vincentian community worldwide, Rev. John Freund, a Vincentian priest, reposted a message he received from Sister Monique, with the Vincentian Daughters of Charity.
Sister Monique states, “Late Sunday afternoon on 1 March 2015, I received a message from M. Francoise, a delegate of the International Society of St. Vincent de Paul [in Rome], and I managed to reach her by telephone.
“She was leaving for Paris, and collapsed at the news she had just received: members of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Syria were kidnapped, along with their wives and children.
“The children were isolated and put into cages. Adults who do not deny their faith will be decapitated, and their children burned alive in the cages.
“M. Francoise had been in regular contact with several of them before all this occurred. She asked me to transmit the news and make a fervent appeal for prayers for these people, and all who are held hostage.
“Let us remain fervently united in prayer, and have as our intention the welfare of all brothers and sisters in our Christian faith who are being held hostage.”
Assyrians in Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 28, march in protest against the kidnapping of an estimated 220 Assyrian Christians by the Islamic State in Syria. (Photo: The Daily Star/Hassan Shaaban)
On Mar. 4, Rev. Freund provided an update: “ISIS released at least 19 Christians on Sunday [Mar. 1] who were among the more than 220 people the militants took captive in northeastern Syria last week, activists and a local leader said.
“The news provided a modicum of relief to a Christian Assyrian community that has been devastated by the abductions, which saw Islamic State fighters haul off entire families from a string of villages along the Khabur River in Hassakeh province.
“But fears remain over the fate of the hundreds still held captive.”
According to an Associated Press report, “all those [19 people] released were around 50 years of age or older, which suggests age might have been a factor. The Assyrian Human Rights Network, meanwhile, said the captives had been ordered released by a Shariah court after paying an unspecified amount of money levied as a tax on non-Muslims.”
The Vincentian Family, according to its Web site, “incorporates all the associations founded by St. Vincent de Paul or inspired by his mission,” including the Ladys of Charity founded in 1617, the Daughters of Charity founded in 1633, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul founded in 1833, and the Lay Vincentian Missionaries founded in 1999.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. There’s a special place in Hell for these vermin.
ISIS needs to be destroyed, to the last man, woman and child.
Anything from His Popeness on this, or is he busy finalizing remarks for a “climate change” speech?
We should have a satillite over these bums and when the first kid is lit up in a cage, I’d detonate a 500KT air burst over the place. Some people, in a lose sense, need to be shown that actions have consequences.
These people need jobs.
I sympathize, but if we want to rescue those being persecuted, as opposed to just killing them along with their oppressors, we’ll have to go in on the ground.
I’m willing to consider that, but I do think it’s important to realize any such war of rescue can’t be won simply with drones and airstrikes.
If the West had any backbone at all, they would get together and wipe ISIS off the face of the earth, down to the last man or woman.
What would you expect him to do? Cheap shot!
It is past time to eradicate these demon spawn. But twiddle freak in the white hut will play golf ...
Not fully evolved... chromosomes missing.
I wonder how Obama is doing on the back nine.
Such a peaceful religion.
It would be safe to say that the White House will not be helping the Catholics in Syria out.
Shirley some hashtag diplomacy will remedy this situation!
#jobsforISIS
There’s that crusader talk again..../s
Get off your high horse! (Do I need the sarc tag?)
Some people need to get off their high horse.
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