Open Doors has provided 3 ways we can help Iraqi Christians suffering by ISIS. Remember the acronym: G.A.S.
Follow the link: http://blog.opendoorsusa.org/powerful-ways-iraqi-christians/
Month: August 2014
Iraqi HOLOCAUST: Children, BEHEADED, Displaced
You can say: War of ISIS is a War on Children.
Dr. Sarah Ahmed, from the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East, shared with CBN some of the great horrors happening to Iraq’s small children.
“ISIS [is] shooting the kids and people, and they were laying them on the ground and they bring tractors that they walk [drive] over them in front of their families.”
CBN also reported that the Islamic State are beheading children and burying them alive.
ISIS’ attacks in Northern Iraq has forced thousands to flee from their homes. According to Al Jazeera, over 20,000 people are taking refuge in the mountains and neighboring countries.
People especially children are enduring horrific circumstances just to stay alive.
Sky News revealed this report: “One man has just told us how he saw four children die of thirst. There was nowhere to bury them on the mountain so they just put rocks on their bodies. Another man was saying the Iraqi children were so thirsty, their parents started cutting their own hands and giving them blood to drink.”
Families, desperate for asylum, have hired human smugglers to safely lead them out of Iraq. According to the Assyrian International News Agency, one nation, Turkey, is refusing Yazidi (another persecuted religious sect among Christians) children with no passports entry to their country.
Children continue to be targets by Islamic extremists days after reports of ISIS fighters beheading children at a park in Mosul and putting their heads on sticks.
Iraqi HOLOCAUST, Petition to Help Iraqis
The world knew about the Jewish Holocaust and did the least they could do about it except to win the war which at that point it was too late for 6 million Jews.
Now there is an ongoing Iraqi Christian Holocaust and we have an opportunity to not let history repeat itself.
We can do something.
There is a petition at whitehouse.gov that is persuading the President to help relieve Iraqi Christians suffering in this modern holocaust.
Sign It and Share It
Let’s write our own history.
IRAQI CHRISTIAN HOLOCAUST
ISIS is senselessly slaughtering Christians in Northern Iraq.
The Isalmic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have strategically targeted Christian communities and attack its churches, crucified men and systemically raped and beheaded women and children.
Chaldean American leader Mark Arabo stated recently in an CNN interview that “they’re killing absolutely every Christian they see.”
The Inquistir reports ISIS “cleanses” towns Qaraqosh, Tal Kayf, Bartella and Karamlesh of their original Christian population.
Arabo told CNN that “there is a park in Mosul where they actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick and have them in the park.”
On July 14, the Isalmic extremists told the Christians in Mosul that they had until noon of that day to completely evacuated the city. ISIS have signaled out Christians for persecutions by marking Christian homes in that city with the Arabic letter “N” (“Nasrani”) for the Christian name Nazarene. Similar to the German Nazi’s marking of Jews with the yellow Star of David in WWII.
Catholic Online has described these atrocities as “the purest manifestation of evil witnessed since the Rape of Nanking during WWII” as Islamic militants in Mosul made music videos of themselves murdering innocent people.
ISIS’ crusade in Iraq has become more than a religious war. It is a genocide.
Child of the global terrorist group Al-Qaida, ISIS has been existed since the US Iraq War in 2003. Fragments of unrelented Iraqi rebels and Syrian rebels from the recent war in Syria make up the terrorist group today. Their aim is to forcefully established an Isalmic regime that supports Sharia Law.
“From a splinter group of Al-Qaida, [ISIS] today, has grown to be a complex threat to peace and security in Iraq, the entire region and beyond,” documented Nickolay Mladenov, head of United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) in an UN Security Council that met late July (UN Security Council 7224th Meeting).
ISIS continues uncounted massacres in north Iraq under their pledge, “convert to Islam or die.”
Together, we can come as ONE and end this holocaust.
Iraqis should enjoy religious freedom and not be terrorized because they share different religious beliefs. This brutal massacre with all its vicious acts especially on children must immediately cease. The killing needs to end.
With this petition, we can draw worthy international attention and pressure our governments to act.
HOLOCAUSTS won’t happen under our watch.
>Hashtag your voice: #noiseforiraq
>Watch Mark Arabo’s Interview with CNN
>Draw attention
>Pray
Look At the Birds
I love watching birds. Silly as some will say, and so I felt, until I observe the crows in my backyard. My dog, on most days, neglects his food until he feels the dire need to eat. Overtime, the little blackbirds took an appetite for dogfood.
On one occasion, a crow seemingly brought his family to dine on my dog’s food. They lined up behind each other (at least four or five I believe), and each one took a biscuit from the food bowl and then hopped over to the water bowl where they soaked the biscuit for easy chewing.
I was fascinated how organized and structured they were: no one cut in line, and they patterned themselves in the same fashion for seconds and thirds! It’s delightful to see how God providentially provided food for the birds from my discontented dog!
We worry so much about everyday when we have a Father who said to us:
“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” -Matthew 6:26 NKJV
God sees that the ravens are cared for, yet He sees you far more valuable. You are so important to Him.
Everything you need in life is at your disposal because God loves you.
How much does He love you? Enough to give Himself. Because He freely did give Himself, there is nothing hard for Him to give to meet your need.
This is God: He…did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32 NKJV) He sent Himself, Jesus, to suffer and die so that we can be free from the power of sin. That was a lot!!!
We can never ever grasp the depth of God’s love that was so extravagant that He willingly offered His Son to save the likes of us. If God freely did this, how much MORE can He give us everything we need?
When you really understand this verse that God loved you so much that He gave His Son, you would boldly run to Him at every need knowing that there is NOTHING in your life that be too much that God can’t give you.
He already gave you His best! So everything else you need is never too expensive!
Why worry? Watch a bird when you’re tempted to. As you gaze at her moving about, think that God will make sure she will get breakfast, lunch and dinner today. And if God takes time for her, He is very much eager to give you everything you need because you are FAR more valuable.
God loves birds, but He loves you MORE!
I want you to listen to one of my favorite songs. Matthew West’s “More” reminded me at a worried state in my life that God loves me too much for me to remain in fear.
FOLLOW THE SON 