Posted on 04/03/2018 7:13:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
*Tragically, Christians living in lands formerly under the control of the "Caliphate" have been betrayed by many in the West. Governments ignored their tragic fate. Bishops were often too aloof to denounce their persecution. The media acted as if they considered these Christians to be agents of colonialism who deserved to be purged from the Middle East. And the so-called "human rights" organizations abandoned them.
*The West was not willing to give sanctuary to these Christians when ISIS murdered 1,131 of them and destroyed or damaged 125 of their churches.
*We must now help Christians rebuild in the lands where their people were martyred.
Persecution of Christians is worse today "than at any time in history", a recent report, by the organization Aid to the Church in Need revealed. Iraq happens to be "ground zero" for the "elimination" of Christians from the pages of history.
Iraqi Christian clergymen recently wore a black sign as a symbol of national mourning for the last victims of the anti-Christian violence: a young worker and a whole family of three. "This means that there is no place for Christians," said Father Biyos Qasha of the Church of Maryos in Baghdad. "We are seen as a lamb to be killed at any time".
A few days earlier, Shiite militiamen discovered a mass grave with the bodies of 40 Christians near Mosul, the former stronghold of the Islamic State and the capital of Iraqi Christianity. The bodies, including those of women and children, seemed to belong to Christians kidnapped and killed by ISIS. Many had crosses with them in the mass grave. Not a single article in the Western mainstream media wrote about this ethnic cleansing.
French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia made an urgent plea to Europe and the West to defend non-Muslims in.......
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Sounds more like W knew about as much as Hillary did in Libya.
Trump did campaign on a safe zone.
Assad and Saddam Hussein both protected Christians, because both were minority rulers in their own lands. Assad was an Alawite who ruled a majority Sunni population, and Hussein a Sunni who ruled a majority Shiite nation. Christians were themselves minorities, and apolitical, and in both countries represented professional classes - doctors, lawyers, engineers. Thus they were useful to both regimes.
Bush, and then Obama, turned that on its head.
NeoCon mission accomplished. They hate Arab Christians.
The pope is too worried about the Rohingya muzzies. He can’t be bothered.
The most dumb azz decision by a president was the invasion of Iraq with the nation building/whack-a-dictator doctrine. Obama, the imbecile mental midget who never had an original idea, only took Bush doctrine to the next level (except for Iran).
Thank you for posting this.
We must keep them in our prayers and help to re-establish churches in the region. To send missionaries. To provide for the children and widows as the Bible tells us to do.
In this Blame Bush is true.
Modern Leftists (of which I include NeoCons, with an emphasis on “cons”) hate Christians only slightly less than do the Muzzies. Christians (those Bible centered) by default worship God not government. Most governments (especially those of the Left) have an entirely different interpretation of the Commandment “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:2 and Deuteronomy 5:6). So Christians are not desired in this modern world of personality cult “leaders”.
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