Please continue to pray for religious freedom abroad, and especially for the Christians from Iraq! Iraqs Christians are begging the world for help. Is anybody listening? Since capturing the countrys second largest city of Mosul in early June, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has ordered Christians to convert to Islam, pay jizya taxes levied on non-Muslims, or die. The extremist Sunni group is also persecuting and murdering Turkmen and Shabaks, both Muslim religious minorities. Human rights lawyer Nina Shea described the horror in Mosul to me: (ISIS) took the Christians houses, took the cars they were driving to leave. They took all their money. One old woman had her life savings of $40,000, and she said, Can I please have 100 dollars?, and they said no. They took wedding rings off fingers, chopping off fingers if they couldnt get the ring off. We now have 5,000 destitute, homeless people with no future, Shea said. This is a crime against humanity.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:32:16 +0000
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