Monday, October 05, 2015

Carey: Save Syrian Believers.

Send in troops to stop Christian genocide: United plea by religious leaders on persecution.

THE world must act now to save Christians in Syria from the barbarians of Islamic State, a powerful lobby including the former Archbishop of Canterbury demands.
The Sunday Express revealed last week how scores of Christians have already been murdered by Islamic State and thousands forced to leave ancient Christian communities in northeastern Syria and western Iraq as the extremists demand they either convert to Islam, pay an extortionate rate of tax or face execution.
More than 700,000 of Syria’s population of 1.1 million Christians have already been forced to leave as IS militants expanded into the northwest of the country and it is believed there are now no more than 250,000 Christians living in Syria.
Lord Carey added his voice to a lobby which includes members of the Rothschild dynasty and Lord Weidenfeld, a Jewish peer who was saved from the Nazis in Austria in 1938.
Lord Carey said: “Time is running out for Christians in the region. It is 100 years since Armenian and Assyrian Christians faced genocide and since then they have experienced increasing persecution in the region.  Sunday Express.

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