Ongoing and devastating loss of innocent life is taking place in Iraq - NOW. As we sit in our comfortable homes and workplaces . . . as we mull over our vacation plans, our weekend plans, our barbeque menus and our outfits.
Christians are being forced to flee from their homes and lose everything they own if they don't convert to Islam - or worse - are slaughtered. Girls/women are being forced into a life of slavery as concubines. Imagine: your daughters, your sisters, your nieces and grandchildren. In addition ISIS has now targeted the peaceful Yezidi people who have fled to a mountain top with no food and no water. They are dying by the hundreds from thirst and starvation, as well as mass execution - an entire community of peoples are being annihilated in this modern-day genocide. Please, take a few minutes of time and watch these videos:
Christians are being forced to flee from their homes and lose everything they own if they don't convert to Islam - or worse - are slaughtered. Girls/women are being forced into a life of slavery as concubines. Imagine: your daughters, your sisters, your nieces and grandchildren. In addition ISIS has now targeted the peaceful Yezidi people who have fled to a mountain top with no food and no water. They are dying by the hundreds from thirst and starvation, as well as mass execution - an entire community of peoples are being annihilated in this modern-day genocide. Please, take a few minutes of time and watch these videos:
AND this - one does not need subtitles to understand:
I am begging you to pray for these people! Cry for Life! Cry out from the depths of your heart to the Almighty Father for the unfathomable number of lives being tortured, extinguished and displaced - and as hard as it is to say - for the conversion of the ISIS/ISIL killers. Clearly they are demon possessed - for they serve a brutal, savage master with absolutely no regard for life! We can pray together to end this genocide here, in an area I set up on my blog: Prayer Warriors to the FRONT LINES!
Thanks be to GOD the Catholic church is helping. From the EWTN Newsroom:
Thanks be to GOD the Catholic church is helping. From the EWTN Newsroom:
Catholic groups unite to help Iraqis ousted by extremists:
In the heavily affected areas of Nineveh province, CRS and its partners are working to reach as many as 3,500 families with food, water, and essential living supplies.
“With people on the move and robbed of their belongings, many have no means to purchase the basics just to get by.”
Where is the outrage for this genocide? Where is the West??? Where is the POTUS???
The old adage is true. Pictures DO speak louder than words. And so I leave you with these images - I chose the least graphic. May they speak to our hearts so that we can cry out to the Father and and to each other for ACTION - to a world that watches in silence.
The old adage is true. Pictures DO speak louder than words. And so I leave you with these images - I chose the least graphic. May they speak to our hearts so that we can cry out to the Father and and to each other for ACTION - to a world that watches in silence.
What if these were OUR children????
Women fleeing . . . I find myself asking:
What if this was MY grandmother??? Please, Pray. Hard.
What if this was MY grandmother??? Please, Pray. Hard.