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DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS STAND TOGETHER AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE AT INAUGURAL CHRISTIAN SUMMIT
Catholic Online
Sept 12 2014
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "In June, at least a half a million
people were forced from Mosul, including every Christian in the city,"
she said. "And mass, for the first time in thousands of years, could
not be celebrated."
This genocide must be stopped! Help your brothers and sisters in
Iraq today!
She continued to tell how the Islamic State was killing men and boys,
and kidnapping and raping women and girls in Iraq and Syria.
"The genocide of Christians-and that's what it is - it is a genocide-it
is genocide," she said before she was interrupted by applause from the
audience made up of religious leaders and advocates from the Middle
East and across the U.S. "The genocide that's taking place in the
Middle East today is a repeat of the history of my family."
Eshoo's mother was Armenian and her father was Assyrian, and she
recalled the Armenian genocide in the early 20th century, where
the Ottoman Empire killed more than a million religious and ethnic
minorities in the region of Turkey.
"They were being slaughtered because they were Christians," she said.
Eshoo did say that she is encouraged by a growing "willingness" in
the United States to protect religious and ethnic minorities in the
Middle East.
Back in August, a bill designed to establish a special envoy at the
State Department to oversee religious liberty in the Middle East was
sponsored by Eshoo and Virginian representative Frank Wolf (R.). The
bill was passed by Congress, and signed into law by President Barack
Obama.
Eshoo ended her time saying that action should be taken to "prevent
further violence."
"We have to keep our resolve in order to prevent further violence
against religious and ethnic minorities, because the genocide of
these vulnerable populations is still taking place, and we know that."
Eshoo was joined by four Democrats and 12 Republicans who spoke at
the first IDC summit at Washington D.C.
http://www.catholic.org/news/national/story.php?id=56885
From: A. Papazian
Catholic Online
Sept 12 2014
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "In June, at least a half a million
people were forced from Mosul, including every Christian in the city,"
she said. "And mass, for the first time in thousands of years, could
not be celebrated."
This genocide must be stopped! Help your brothers and sisters in
Iraq today!
She continued to tell how the Islamic State was killing men and boys,
and kidnapping and raping women and girls in Iraq and Syria.
"The genocide of Christians-and that's what it is - it is a genocide-it
is genocide," she said before she was interrupted by applause from the
audience made up of religious leaders and advocates from the Middle
East and across the U.S. "The genocide that's taking place in the
Middle East today is a repeat of the history of my family."
Eshoo's mother was Armenian and her father was Assyrian, and she
recalled the Armenian genocide in the early 20th century, where
the Ottoman Empire killed more than a million religious and ethnic
minorities in the region of Turkey.
"They were being slaughtered because they were Christians," she said.
Eshoo did say that she is encouraged by a growing "willingness" in
the United States to protect religious and ethnic minorities in the
Middle East.
Back in August, a bill designed to establish a special envoy at the
State Department to oversee religious liberty in the Middle East was
sponsored by Eshoo and Virginian representative Frank Wolf (R.). The
bill was passed by Congress, and signed into law by President Barack
Obama.
Eshoo ended her time saying that action should be taken to "prevent
further violence."
"We have to keep our resolve in order to prevent further violence
against religious and ethnic minorities, because the genocide of
these vulnerable populations is still taking place, and we know that."
Eshoo was joined by four Democrats and 12 Republicans who spoke at
the first IDC summit at Washington D.C.
http://www.catholic.org/news/national/story.php?id=56885
From: A. Papazian