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ISIS Closes In On Christians in Dramatic Overnight Development. Pope, Iraq's Chaldean patriarch issue emergency appeals. ISIS, the radical Islamist group that forced Christians out of Mosul with the threat of death, has taken control of most of the villages of the Nineveh Plain, the northern area where Iraqi Christians have hunkered down in what is appearing increasingly to look like ethnic cleansing. In a statement in which the Vatican referst to "terrible developments," Pope Francis has called for help from the "international community." "His Holiness urgently calls on the international community to protect all those affected or threatened by the violence, and to guarantee all necessary assistance—especially the most urgently needed aid—to the great multitude of people who have been driven from their homes, whose fate depends entirely on the solidarity of others," today's statment read." The overnight development was reported in an urg...

ISIS Pushing Christians Out of Iraq. Will the world intervene?   As the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria takes up a new military campaign—apparently to gain ground in the oil-rich Kurdish area in northern Iraq—the U.S. military reportedly will conduct an emergency airdrop to aid members of a religious minority that is being pushed up against a wall. Such an intervention would be aimed at helping the Yazidi religious minority besieged on a northern mountainside by the Sunni extremists, according to U.S. officials quoted by   The Wall Street Journal. Yazidis, who follow an ancient religion with ties to Zoroastrianism, are considered by ISIS as apostates. Their ancestral homeland is Sinjar, a district of Nineveh in northwest Iraq that ISIS took over on Sunday.  Katrina Lantos Swett  said this evening that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that she chairs is " heartened that the White House is considerin...

Iraq, 100,000 Christians fleeing jihadists "Initiates US raid." But the Pentagon denies         Iraq, 100,000 Christians fleeing jihadists "Initiates US raid." But the Pentagon denies The State Islamic conquest of the area of Nineveh. Pope's appeal to the international community. Ban Ki-moon: "I'm upset, you have to intervene." Obama clears way for humanitarian aid Tens of thousands of Christians fleeing. Women, children, the elderly, and with their priests and nuns, marching to try to find shelter after being forced to leave their homes, many even in pajamas and barefoot. This new horror scenario that exists today in northern Iraq, where the militia of the Islamic State (Isis), as modern Huns continue their advance that neither the army nor the Kurdish Peshmerga forces seem more able to stop. An "appeal to the international community" has been addressed by the Pope to "put an end to the humanitarian tragedy taking...

Iraqi Patriarch Sends SOS After ISIS Takes Over Plain of Nineveh Following Last Night's Destruction, Christians Walking Toward Kurdish Cities Here is a message sent today from Baghdad to Aid to the Church in Need, from Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, president of the bishops of Iraq. Chaldean Patriarchate's Appeal for Urgent Help SOS The ISIS militants attacked with mortars most of the villages of the plain of Nineveh, during the night of 6th-7th of August and now they are controlling the area. The Christians, about 100,000, horrified and panicked, fled their villages and houses [with] nothing but the clothes on their backs. An exodus, a real via crucis, Christians are walking on foot in Iraq's searing summer heat towards the Kurdish cities of Erbil, Duhok and Soulaymiyia, the sick, the elderly, infants and pregnant women among them. They are facing a human catastrophe and risk a real genocide. They need water, food, shelter ... Regarding the churches and church p...

BREAKING news!!! ISIS JUST EMPTIED NINEVEH PLAINS – 200,000 ARAMEAN CHRISTIANS FLED   World Council of Arameans, Beirut:   Last night, two Aramean children and a mother were killed as a result of a shameless attack by ISIS terrorists against Baghdeda (Qaraqosh) in North Iraq. At the same time, in the middle of the night, more than 40,000 Aramean families – comprising at least 200.000 human beings – fearfully fled their ancestral homes, towns and villages in the Nineveh region. Another unprecedented humanitarian disaster is now unfolding in Iraq. Most recently, thousands of Aramean families had already escaped the Mosul region to the Nineveh province, after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorists rampaged the area. The Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of St. Matthew, including its fourth-century Monastery of Mor Matay, and other local dioceses have been closed. The Nineveh plains are now emptied from its native Christians, who belong to the Syriac Orthodo...

Metropolitan Hilarion: World on Brink of World War III   (Moscow, July 31,   Interfax ) – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, has expressed concern over the current international situation, claiming that the world has found itself one step away from a global war. “The current situation is increasingly reminiscent of that in the run-up to the First World War. News programs have turned into frontline news summaries, each day we hear about more and more victims. Yes, so far the conflicts have been on a local scale but whole countries and whole military-political blocs are getting sucked into the militaristic rhetoric,” the Metropolitan wrote in an article published in the weekly supplement to the   Rossiyskaya Gazeta   ( Russian Newspaper – Week ) newspaper on Thursday. Polarization has reached a critical point, the author said. “Various countries create and maintain, through mass ...

Is it True That Muslims Are Killing 100,000 Christians Every Year?   The death of even one innocent soul is a tragedy for humanity. The discrimination and in some cases persecution of any religious group is no doubt an affront to Islam but many Christian websites and Islamophobic groups are guilty of ratcheting up hostility and fears of Islam and Muslims with dubious stats that not only don’t tell the whole story but skew reality. By Ruth Alexander BBC   http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24864587 It’s often claimed that 100,000 Christians are killed every year because of their religion. Earlier this year, the Vatican called it a credible number. But is it? Gunmen on motorcycles   kill three people   when they open fire on a wedding outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo. A twin-suicide bombing outside a church in Pakistan kills at least 75 people . These two recent headline-grabbing attacks occurred within just a month of each other. Horrific, bu...

Freed Sudanese Christian Woman Meriam Ibrahim Arrives In US After Escaping Death Sentence for 'Apostasy,' Ready to Make Home in New Hampshire Meriam Ibrahim arrived in the U.S. on Thursday with her family, reported News. Earlier this week, Meriam, 27, her husband, Daniel Wani, and her two young children, Martin, 18 months old, and Maya, born two months ago in prison, met with Pope Francis in Rome The Italian government and the Vatican negotiated to release her. She came to Rome with her family July 24 in a government plane, their last stop before flying to the States, to settle in New Hampshire. Her husband is a U.S. citizen. Ms. Ibrahim faced a death sentence in Sudan because she refused to renounce her Christian faith. The Holy Father, who met with her and the family at the Vatican the day they arrived in Rome, praised the Sudanese woman for her “courageous witness to perseverance in the faith.” At the same encounter, she and her family thanked the Holy Father for hi...