Archive for the 'Iraq' Category
Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
Jesus taught his followers to pray for their enemies and that is exactly what Iraqi Christians are doing. ISIS has destroyed churches, has persecuted and killed Christians, and forced women and children into slavery but the Christians continue to pray. Here’s the story from Christianity Today: An Iraqi priest has described Christians as the "salt" […]
Filed under: Christian living, Christian Witness, Iraq, ISIS, Middle East, Prayer
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Friday, March 18th, 2016
Yesterday Secretary of State Kerry finally declared, what was obvious to everyone around the world, that ISIS was committing genocide against Christians and other religious minorities and crimes against humanity. From Politico: The Islamic State is committing genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims in Iraq and Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry declared on […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Attacks on Churches, Culture & Religion, Foreign Policy, Genocide, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic Intolerance, Islamist Radicals, Obama Administration, Persecution, Politically Correct, Politics & Religion, Religious Conflict, Religious Persecution, Syria, USA
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Monday, July 13th, 2015
The Obama administration is going out of its way to accept illegal immigrants from Latin America, even unaccompanied underage children by the thousands. Also there has been an open door for the thousands of Muslims fleeing ‘oppressive’ governments in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Why then is the U.S. government discriminating against Iraqi Christians […]
Filed under: Discrimination, Foreign Policy, Iraq, ISIS, Islam and Christianity, Obama Administration, Politics & Religion, Religious Persecution, USA
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
A recent poll taken by the Al Jazeera Arabic TV channel shows that 81% of their viewers support ISIS. The popular TV news network which is hosted in Qatar and viewed all over the Muslim world in the Middle East and North Africa asked their Arabic viewers to respond to the following question: “Do you […]
Filed under: Culture & Religion, Foreign Policy, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Domination, Islamic Terrorism, Islamist Radicals, Jihad, Middle East, Muslim Culture, New Islamic Caliphate, Obama Administration, Syria
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Friday, May 1st, 2015
Your browser does not support iframes. Not only has the Obama administration done very little if nothing to stem the tide of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East but apparently doesn’t want anyone to call attention to their failure. The Obama State Department has denied a visa to a nun who was coming […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Iraq, ISIS, Obama Administration, Politics & Religion, Religious Persecution, USA
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Saturday, February 21st, 2015
Last week, the ISIS radicals beheaded 21 Christians and declared war on all the rest of us. In contrast, see the responses of these Iraqi Christian children whose families have lost everything because of the radical ISIS Islamists in the video above. It demonstrates the difference between the two world faiths, particularly the teaching of […]
Filed under: Christian living, Iraq, ISIS, Islam and Christianity, Islamist Radicals, Religious Persecution
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
Pope Francis proclaimed in a joint service with Patriarch Bartholomew I (spiritual head of the Orthodox Churches) that ISIS militants were carrying out a "profoundly grave sin against God" in Syria and Iraq. Here’s the story from NBC News: Francis said people of all faiths could not remain indifferent to the cries of the victims […]
Filed under: Catholic Church, Culture & Religion, Iraq, ISIS, Islam and Christianity, Pope Francis I, Religious Persecution, Syria, Turkey
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Saturday, July 26th, 2014
A Lack of Response in the West to ‘Religious Genocide’ (Nun: Arabic letter and Muslim Symbol for Christians) Shortly after ISIS took over in Mosul every Christian home, business, institution, and church were marked and spray painted with the letter ‘Nun’ which is the Muslim symbol for ‘Nasara‘ (Nazarenes) the historical Muslim name for Christians. […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Attacks on Churches, Discrimination, Freedom of Religion, Iraq, Islam and Christianity, Islamic Intolerance, Islamist Radicals, Media Bias, MSM and Religion, New Islamic Caliphate, Obama Administration, Religious Persecution, Sharia Law, USA
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Monday, July 21st, 2014
The leader of the new Islamic State in Iraq and Syria demanded last week that all Christians in the lands that he ruled over either convert, pay a special tax, leave, or die . Those who did flee were expected to leave behind all of their possessions and funds. However, it became even worse for […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Iraq, Islam and Christianity, Islamic Intolerance, Islamist Radicals, Jihad, New Islamic Caliphate, Persecution, Sharia Law
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Thursday, June 12th, 2014
(Flag of ISIS: Wikipedia) Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq and it was home to the largest remaining conclave of Christians in the country. Now nearly all of the tens of thousands of Christians in the city have left everything behind in order to flee the onslaught of the radical ISIS (Islamic […]
Filed under: Attacks on Churches, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Islam and Christianity, Islamist Radicals, New Islamic Caliphate, Obama Administration, Religious Persecution, Sharia Law, Syria
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