Open Doors has provided 3 ways we can help Iraqi Christians suffering by ISIS. Remember the acronym: G.A.S.
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Tag: social injustice
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
Thank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for your selfless effort to unite a nation by our character and not by our color. I have a white dad and a black mom, so I would not technically be alive if it you weren’t for you.
I look forward to personally thanking you someday up there….
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani Freed Again!
I was startled when my dad told me around the dinner table the other night that Pastor Youcef was released from prison. I had to look it up for myself.
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been freed from prison, following his most recent arrest in Iran. After spending three years in prison for apostacy, Pastor Youcef was freed in early last year September. He was re-arrested on Christmas Day on the charge by Iranian authorities that Youcef needed to complete his remaining 45 days of prison time. (See more on Christmas Tragedies)
Actually, according the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Iran pastor was released 11 days ago.
Since 2009, Pastor Youcef has been under arrest under charges of apostacy. During his imprisonment, he was then sentenced to death for converting Muslims to Christianity. Over his imprisonment, he has been taken on and off death row due to the overwhelming international outcry for the pastor’s release.
I hope you all can rejoice with me over Pastor Youcef’s release. We do need to pray for the pastor’s lawyer whom has been recently placed under arrest for advocating for Pastor Youcef.
Christmas Tragedies
Christmas is a joy in itself. Ultimately, we joy in the gift of a Savior who is Christ Jesus coming to earth to save us from the consequence of our sins against God and restore true, eternal peace. We also delight in joyful memories that are produced around loved ones as we gather together to celebrate Christ’s birth.
But while we sang glad songs to our Messiah, across the sea many shed great tears of tragedy.
Nigeria
Early Christmas morning, 12 Christians were killed by gunmen. These killings occurred during open attacks against the Christian community that included raids upon two churches and in numerous Christian homes. While the assailants have yet to be confirmed, the BBC strongly believes it to be none other than the aggressive Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram that has claimed the lives of over 700 Christians in 2012.
Boko Haram is devoted to convert the entire nation of Nigeria into an Islamic state and since beginning of this year has demanded every Christian to leave the country. Last Christmas, Boko Haram massacred 44 believers.
Iran
We all rejoiced in September when we received the news of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s release from prison. On Christmas Day Pastor Nadarkhani was rearrested by Iranian authorities. According to the Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Pastor Nadarkhani has to complete the remainder of his time in prison (45 days) and finish uncompleted paperwork.
Since October 2009, Pastor Nadarkhani has been detained in prison without bail for his protest against his children being taught the Qur’an in school. Later on, Iranian authorities also charged Pastor Nardarkhani with apostasy and converting Muslims which is illegal in Iran.
During his time in prison, Pastor Nadarkhani has suffered aggressive persuasion to recant his faith and also had been sentenced to be executed on several occasions that were continually dropped because of the overwhelmingly outcry by the international community on Pastor Nadarkhani’s behalf.
WHAT GOD DID
While here on earth, Jesus did promise to those who would testify of Him, will suffer persecution. In fact Jesus said,
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:18-19 NKJV).
As followers of Jesus, being persecuted is part of what it means to belong to Christ. Paul made this evident to us in Philippians 1:29: “For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake.”
God sees our brothers and sisters suffering for His cause. We should honor their work to proclaim Christ, and God has stored great eternal rewards for their exchange to risk their lives to expand God’s kingdom.
WHAT WE CAN DO
1. PRAY
>These people are suffering at the hands of sinful, depraved people who are plagued by Satan’s hatred for God’s people. We hate their sin, but desire that these sinners be reconciled to God. We need to PRAY that God save them.
>PRAY for the peace of Nigeria from all the mass genocides, especially the attacks against Christians.
>PRAY for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s immediate release. God got out once. He can do it again. Also PRAY for him to remain unharmed while detained and for strength for his family.
2. PUBLICIZE
The social media is a very powerful tool of influence today. Get the word across – wherever, however – telling the world, we don’t tolerate these social injustices.
Feel free to repost this blog for the purpose of promoting public awareness of these social injustices.
Remember to keep praying for peace in Nigeria.
Pastor Youcef is FREE
Christian Post just released the first photo of Pastor Youcef’s release!
PRAISE JESUS!!!
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was freed today of his apostasy charge that has kept the Iranian pastor imprisoned for three years.
Nadarkhani had also been sentenced to death for converting Muslims to Christianity. Over his imprisonment, he has been taken on and off death row due to the overwhelming international outcry for the pastor’s release.
This is glorious day!!! So happy!!!
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