Assyrian Church in Beirut
Posted on 02/26/2015 3:21:15 PM PST by NYer
Assyrian Church in Beirut
Islamic State militants have reportedly executed 15 Christians who have been captured in villages in northeastern Syria since Monday.
A priest who has been feeding reports to Christian aid agencies around the world, including Aleteia partner Aid to the Church in Need, said today that a Christian Assyrian lawyer in the city of Hassakah told him that about 15 young Assyrians "are martyred. Many of them were fighting to defend and protect the villages and families."
Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana of CAPNI, the Christian Aid Program in Iraq, said that in the Christian village of Tel Hormizd: 14 fighters, two of whom were women, were killed. One of the women may have been beheaded, he said. Another 13 fighters from different villages were captured.
Altogether, including civilians, as many as 350 Christians from the area have been captured, he reported—many more than the 70 originally reported. Their fate is unknown, and there is much speculation. He said that an unconfirmed report said that a mosque in the Arab Sunni village of Bab Alfaraj was calling people to attend a "mass killing of infidels in the mountain of Abdul Aziz on Friday."
Archimandrite Youkhana reported that none of the residents of one Christian village that the Islamic State attacked, Tel Shamiram, were able to escape. This village had 51 families, with an average of five persons per family, he said.
"There was fire exchange between the fighters protecting the village and IS terrorist group," the priest wrote. "It is believed there are casualties and many are Assyrians are been killed in the village. No news on the destiny of the families. Most probably they are been captured and transported to Mount Abdul Aziz, a nearby mount/region controlled by IS."
Other villages attacked included Tel Jazira, Tel Gouran, Tel Feytha, and Qabir Shamiya.
He said that 800 families displaced from their villages have taken refuge in Hassakah and 175 in Qamishli. Those numbers are expected to eventually total 1200 families. The only ones left are fighters in Tel Tamar who are protecting the town together with Kurdish fighters. "They hope the region to be liberated and families return," he said.
According to a report by Catholic News Agency, civilians fleeing to the Turkish border have been stranded as they are not allowed to cross.
“There are 200 families who were running away and trying to escape to Turkey, but the border is closed for Syrians. No Syrian can cross into Turkey,” Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo told CNA Feb. 26.
Archbishop Hindo oversees the Syrian Archdiocese of Hassake, which is located in the Al-Hasakah region of Syria. The region sits between the country’s borders with both Turkey and Iraq.
The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday evening “strongly condemned” this week's abductions and demanded the immediate release of others taken by the Islamic State and similar groups. The United States on Wednesday condemned the attacks on Assyrian Christian villages, which it said included the burning of homes and churches and abduction of women, children and the elderly.
Reuters news agency has this background on the situation:
Catholic ping!
Probably reported by Obama as ISIL has engaged in random attacks on Syrian citizens.
Obama is so outraged, he is speechless.
And Obama sits on his can pondering his next golf outing.
Meanwhile the media is concerned about Llamas running around..prayers for these Christians being slaughtered in Syria..we have a President who could care less
Bombing of these people needs to start and frankly, I don’t care about collateral damage.
And meeting with terrorist supporting muslims in the WH.
I hope no one thought they would do anything other than that.
We are letting so many muzzies in that there is no room for Christians left while our congress critters stay mute.
Islam, ISIS, muzzie immigration and related matters need to be discussed during the 2016 presidential debates now that these items have become a matter of life and death to this nation.
If it does not happen, you’ll know that the debates are just an exercise in smoke and mirrors.
The grinning idiot in the WH just keeps on smiling...
Why should a muzzie care when Christians are slaughtered by his fellow muzzies?
I don’t know how our present government could be any further removed from reality. It’s totally bizarre and disgusting.
I would like to see how “safe” John Kerry would feel if he was on his knees waiting to be decapited.
Time to arrest the whole bunch of them from Obama on down.
The un, human rights march, amnesty international and our fearless leader will cry out in outrage and demand the savages stop,
when hell freezes over.
This is why Libs don’t ask me anymore for solutions to their problems.
A proposal I would like to see more of is the Mercenary Army...no national identity. Punishment for some head ISIS fighters captured would be to be put in a pen where wild pigs (that have not been fed for awhile) are then released. Extra credit would be given if the pigs were sows and not boars.
The story of course would be that the Jihadists went pig hunting [somewhat like bull fighting] and lost.
And here I thought my solution was the preferred tit-for-tat way to be sporting. Videos of these sporting events would be furnished free of charge to Al Jazerra (sp) of course. To be considered a winner, one must win 2 out of 3 contests. Let the games begin. ~~~JB~~~
How does this help advancing the homosexual agenda? how does this help people’s self esteem? Just pure Racism against peaceful Muslims practicing their faith./s
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