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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
People Starving in Somalia
I am still tangled with all the turmoil that’s going on in Africa. When I shared with my mom the atrocity happening in Nigeria and South Sudan, she commented these incidents as reasons to be grateful with the blessings I enjoy.
After an exchange of nods in agreement, she added, “–I mean look at Somalia: people are so thirsty that they are drinking their own urine.”
Somalia
Last summer, a widespread famine swept across East Africa, killing thousands. New York Times reports that nearly 1 million people has left Somalia to neighboring countries.
Aid to Somalia is severely hindered by the malicious presence of Al Shahab, a radical Islamic group that controls the most famine afflicted regions. Al Shahab is infamously known to kill aid workers that come to bring relief. According to the BCC, last month, 3 aid workers were shot dead in attempt to bring aid to famine victims.
3 million people remain at the risk of death from the effects of this famine.
WHAT GOD DID
Exodus 17 depicts the event where Israel is in dire need of water. When they complained to Moses, the Lord instructed Moses to struck a rock with his rod. Upon His command, Moses struck it, and the waters came forth.
Hundreds of years later, Jesus promised a thirsty woman water that will eternally satisfy her.
We serve the God that can provide both physical and more importantly spiritual water to the needy.
WHAT WE CAN DO
>Pray God will bring a miracle:
1. Ask Him to send needed rain for crops.
2. Open door for relief workers to safely administer help
3. Cease the radical groups’ oppression and pray for an establishment of a stable, just and righteous government.
>Prayerfully consider supporting a trusted humanitarian organisation that is actively involved in bringing help and hope to Somalia. (Our family supports Samaritan’s Purse, http://www.samaritanspurse.org)
Nigerian Christians Called to Defend Themselves
Amid the persisted anti-Christian attacks in Nigeria, there has been a suggestion raised for Christians to defend themselves.
A leading advocate to this proposition is Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), whom told reporters Saturday that Christians should take arms against the oppressing radical Muslims.
Yesterday, the Sudan Tribune stated that US President Barack Obama has added South Sudan to the list of countries to eligible to receive US weapons.
I fear this could lead to a bloody, sloppy slope down to a brutal civil war.
WHAT GOD DID
The vast Syrian army was on the verge to capture the prophet Elisha. Elisha’s servant saw their enviable doom and panicked, but the prophet answered, “Do not fear, for those who [are] with us [are] more than those who [are] with them (2 Kings 6:16).”
The Lord opened the servants eyes, and he gazed ghastly at the enormous, fiery Angel armies around Elisha. The Lord cast blindness upon the Syrians, and they were led by Elisha to the army of Israel and then sent home.
God can turn the tide of war.
WHAT WE CAN DO
>We need to pray for a divine intervention.
>Continue to promote awareness of these atrocities.
ALERT>> Christians Die in Nigeria and South Sudan
Our Christian family in Africa need our prayerful attention. Persecution of the church has frightfully increased. Nigeria and South Sudan are two key countries that violence against Christian has steeped higher in just a few weeks.
Nigeria
On New Year’s Day, radical Muslims threaten the Nigerian Church to leave the nation in three days or face open oppression. Nigeria has experienced widespread anti-Christian attacks that has claimed 130 dead and hundreds more wounded and displaced from homes. A peak in theses attacks was the massacre on Christmas Day where 50 people were killed in four individual attacks.
According to the Christian Post in the past 24 hours, several separate attacks have killed 29 people.
South Sudan
South Sudan receiving independence last July impressed Christians with hope of worshipping God freely from their aggressive Islamic neighbours in the North, but the Church has continue to suffer extensive attacks.
This last week alone, more than 3,000 people have been massacred in this new nation. There is an ideal count of at least 50,000 villagers have become homeless.
WHAT GOD DID:
Isaiah 37 tells the account of King Hezekiah’s prayer of deliverance to God from his invading enemies. He cried: “Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD, You alone.”
God saved Judah by his people’s prayers. God hasn’t changed: He can save our brothers and sisters in Nigeria and South Sudan.
WHAT WE CAN DO:
>Pray for a permanent end to this rampant cruelty and injustice.
>Promote public awareness of these social injustices. We have a voice: make it heard.
South Sudan A New Hope
We are now within hours of celebrating the 196th nation of the world: the new nation of South Sudan!
At midnight, South Sudan will rejoice its independence from Northern Sudan after January’s referendum confirmed a 99% decision to separate Sudan into two independent states.
This should be a joy for all believers, for the majority Christian South will finally be able to worship Christ freely.
South Sudan has suffered a cruel, bloody 21-year civil war and hundreds of genocide attacks that has claimed the death of over 2 million people and displaced 5 million.
But there are critical challenges for prayer for this new infant country. By tomorrow, South Sudan will instantly become one of the poorest nations in the world where almost 85% percent of the population is illiterate and 1 of 7 children don’t outlive the age of five.
Although South Sudan will be independent, borders for the country have yet to be confirmed. Oil-rich regions such as Abeyi and Nuba have suffered harshly under military militia groups that fight to keep these areas for the North.
A global concern is a permanent peace between North and South Sudan that still looks fragile with disputed boundaries and the threat of active rebel groups within South Sudan that are accused of affiliation with North Sudan.
Still, we can be glad that God has brought freedom to the South Sudanese that have suffered years of hatred and discrimination from their Northern brothers.
We need to pray that South Sudan will be reared to foster a concrete dependence and reverence for Christ and a relentless trust in His protection and provision as they grow to uplift themselves.
Thank you Jesus for giving freedom at last to South Sudan!
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