Posted on 09/10/2014 3:11:10 AM PDT by markomalley
Last week, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako issued an impassioned plea to the international community to speak out and take action on behalf of persecuted Arab Christians and other minorities. This latest statement came a month after 120,000 Iraqi Christians were forcibly displaced from their homes.
Sako, Iraq’s senior Christian cleric, called the systematic persecution “a real genocide” and called for “decisive steps” to put pressure on decision-makers at home and abroad to ensure a free, safe life for all in Iraq.
In Washington, DC, a bipartisan and ecumenical conference starts Tuesday evening, focusing on the deteriorating situation facing millions of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. The three-day event sponsored by In Defense of Christians (IDC) will feature speakers from all over the globe.
The IDC Summit for Middle East Christians is the first occasion in history where six Christian Patriarchs from the Middle East will gather together in the United States.
IDC President Toufic Baaklini said, "For too long, Westerners have stood by, silent or unaware, while Christians and other groups in the Middle East have endured discrimination, persecution, and religious cleansing. Today, as the Islamic State continues its genocidal campaign against Christians in Iraq and Syria, the globe is finally awakening to their plight. "
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Standing up for Christians and other attacked groups in the Middle East.
"Course, they never come out and actually say those words ... but the reader sees that action.
Madmen cannot be stopped, arrested, cajoled, embarrassed, negotiated with nor bargained ... they must be killed.
The world will never (again?) be right until someone nation goes in, pulls triggers, makes a mess, breaks things and obliterates the insane from the planet.
God commanded the Hebrews to go in and kill the inhabitants of the lasnd He gave to them.
It's been going on for years. Where have they been? Waiting for the fifth-column MSM to give "religious" leaders talking points to support Barry's "plan"?
Western powers are busy arming and aiding only muslims, never Christians. This time it’s Kurd muslims and Iraqi muslims.
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