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:
God bless our Christian brethren.
If these satanic Islamic murderers are not stopped NOW, we will see this kind of thing here in this country! They are already here... just waiting for the green light.
Be vigilant!
This is how I feel right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynKoZD-sFi4
From Tombstone 1994—”Hell’s Coming With Me”
Obama shameful silence while Christians are slaughtered by Muslims means that he is in fact approving the genocide of Christians.
Hmm , too bad Assad isn’t there in Syria to protect the Christians as he has since he’s been in power.
Unfortunately the united states has removed the protection Christians had in Syria by supporting the overthrow of Assad.
This makes ISIS our allies. Sure is strange that ISIS is doing everything publicly they can to get US ground troops involved in Syria.
Hmmm.. Wonder if our soldiers will be required to behead Christians when we intervene in Syria to help our allies overthrow Assad?
Bring back napalm.
Your logic is much better than bo’s, sadly.
An Obama does nothing.
Remember George Santanyana’s famous quote (and similar ones by others). “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing”.
Modify it for Obama and you have, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for evil people like Obama to do nothing to stop their soulmates”.
This is no different from the pogroms and camps during WWII. The world closed its eyes then and it is repeating the process now.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
And Obama is greatly pleased. His muslim brothers are doing well murdering kaffir.
Lord Jesus Christ, welcome Thy new martyrs and rest their souls among the saints and the angels.
Open the minds and the hearts of their tormentors and lead them to penance and redemption.
Bless the Christian people of Thy birthplace Levant.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, amen.
I can’t imagine what these people are going through. But I pray that through the prayers of the Great and Holy New Martyrs, God may give them the strength to face the dreadful ordeal that almost certainly awaits them.
Amen...
Amen...
Info on the Assyrian group fighting alongside Kurds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3258670/posts
The source link is to INN Israel News Network and unfortuantely does not offer a direct connect which they desperately need .
AMEN.
+1.
Loved Sam Kinison.
.....Starting with CPAC.
ISLAM, a religion from the devil.
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