Syrian Christians.

Only 1.5 Percent of Syrian Christians Fleeing ISIS Given Refugee Status in US, UK. Stoyan Zaimov. Christian Post.

The United Nations has "failed miserably" when it comes to protecting Christians from genocide, a charity has said, noting that a mere 1.5 percent of Syrian refugees accepted by Western nations in 2016 were followers of Christ.

"This is shocking behavior by the U.N. and U.K. officials," said Barnabas Fund's Martin Parsons in an interview with Express published Tuesday.

"In 2005 the U.N. adopted the responsibility of states to protect citizens from genocide and crimes against humanity. These statistics show that it has failed miserably in this. Christians and other minorities have been treated shamefully by the U.N. And the U.K. has outsourced its own responsibilities in spite of repeated representations."

The intentional aid agency has released a number of figures recently highlighting the problem, and last week pointed out that although Christians make up roughly 10 percent of Syria's population, only 1.5 percent of Syrian refugees accepted in New Zealand, the U.K. and the United States [under the Obama administration] last year were Christians.

Breaking down the U.K. figures, it found that the government sheltered 8,136 refugees in 2015 and 2016, but only 70 of them were Christians.

The Yazidis, another religious minority that has faced genocide at the hands of the Islamic State terror group, were also underrepresented, with only 22 refugees from the group taken in.

Barnabas Fund added that of the 10,801 resettled by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees between October 2015 and September 2016, only 56 were Christians.

The U.S. figures were not any more encouraging, with only 125 of the 15,479 Syrian refugees admitted in 2016 having a Christian identity.