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Nina Shea, the director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, gives
Someone in the House or Senate needs to ask President Obama how many Christians will be accepted out of the thousands of refugees that will find their way to the United States from Syria and Iraq.
For those Christians that remain in Syria and Iraq we need to offer up our prayers for their safety. We need to pray that President Obama finds courage. Persecuting the Little Sisters of the Poor is not the courage I’m looking for from this President.
The article says that Washington is blind to the Christian genocide. I think that is incorrect. I believe Washington knows exactly what is happening and just does not have any issues with it.
I’d recommend that they not wait for any official welcome and join the false refugees flooding Europe, but those migrants might be almost as dangerous.
The one time it is acceptable to break into someone else’s home (nation) uninvited is when your life is in imminent danger.
Don’t get your hopes up:
Scott,
I can’t understand what you are talking about. Yes there was that huge grey thing in your living room with the massive horn on its nose. No it wasn’t a Rhinoceros. It may have weighed a few tons, smashed right through the wall of your house and trampled your children to death but c’mon a Rhinoceros?! You’re just overreacting. Stay calm and we’ll send you a puppy to hug.
Please don’t use words like Rinoceros (Genocide) the sensitive completely self-absorbed SJW crowd will get an upset stomach.
Regards,
Jim
It seems that the US has placed up a sign that says all are welcome, well except Christians we have too many of those folk already.
What’s the best organization to donate to that helps these people? And prayers of course. These are dark, dark times.
I like Catholic Relief Services.
It really breaks my heart that we have let these Christians and Yazidis down. I can’t believe we are doing nothing about it. As much as I hate Putin meddling in the middle east, perhaps his going in will help out the situation for the regional minorities. Any refugees from these groups I welcome.
The best charity I know that is specific to the middle east Christian problem is CNEWA. I’ve donated to them.
If there was any way to selectively help refugees who are seeking Asylum based on religious persecution I would be open to it. However, there is no way I support an influx of random Middle Eastern refugees who could just as well be welcomed by Arab neighbors and some of whom could be ISIS terrorists.
My preferred solution is a military defeat of ISIS. That is the only real long term solution. Having said that, I think the ground fighting should be led by local forces with weapons that we can provide. I am not willing to send my teenage son to fight ISIS when so many (a majority) of the refugees are men.
In the meantime, it is good to see the Russians launching missiles at the various factions. Since Obama is unwilling to do anything, maybe Putin can save some of these Christians even if that is not his primary goal.
Pelayo,
There used to be exactly that kind of policy. It was a rational policy of mercy. Instead we now have an irrational policy of illusion in which we imagine ourselves to be caring for the poor of the whole world. Instead we are importing slave labor by the most dangerous means and allowing criminals to run free.
There is a way to just let the ones in who really need it. It takes the will to do it.
Regards,
Jim
A Canadian Jew started an org to rescue people from the islamic state. He’s rescued more than 100.
Agreed. But certainly our military could go in to Christian areas and escort those who want to leave out of the area. Perhaps I am naive, but I have great confidence in what our military can do.
Thanks for this info CB.
Also the Barnabas Fund has been seeking to help Christians from Syria and others in the region.
Also Samaritan’s Purse is helping. Both organizations that have stellar reputations for wise use of money, low overhead and success. I hope we can all find money to help our co-religionists and other persecuted minorities, as well as time for prayer, no matter the denomination or tradition.
Thanks
The Milt Rosenberg show has an episode where members of the Assyrian and Yazidi communities are interviewed and asked, among other things, what kind of help would be most useful to them. It’s really worth a listen.
I believe we are witnessing another repeat of the 1940’s – there is no comparison to the horror from that period, not only to Jews, but to Christians and clergy throughout Europe and Russia. Now we see the horror again – and again – the world is slow and silent while unimaginable suffering is occurring. We have become numb – there’s no hiding it this time like before – it’s blatantly out there. But little coverage and demands to stop it? So…..it will be like Planned Parenthood – where brave souls will expose and keep this story – like you are – front and center. We have a duty as human beings to do it.
We said never again and never again is returning. We will have to give an account to our lives one day before the Great Throne – to say we didn’t know? Here is what one person can do:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-investigator-on-parallel-between-nazis-and-isis/
The Pope made a statement recently – I just saw the headline:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/10/09/pope-francis-devil-numbs-conscience-won/
If all you can do if pray, then pray constantly, support the churches on the front lines, donate, journalists can write, photographers can photograph, write to our political leaders, and keep posts like these going. This crisis is just beginning.
Thanks for those two links