Rep. Anna Eshoo and Jeff Fortenberry introduced legislation calling for the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) and others be labeled “genocide,” cnsnews.com informed.
U.S. Congress new legislation: Persecution of religious minorities in Middle East by ISIS must be labeled “genocide”
STEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 11, ARTSAKHPRESS: “The legislation that has been introduced is legislation that calls what is happening in the Middle East a genocide,” Eshoo said in an address to the In Defense of Christians convention on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry described Christianity in the Middle East as “shattered.”
“The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying. Yet Christians in Iraq and Syria are hanging on in the face of the Islamic State’s barbarous onslaught. This is genocide. The international community must confront the scandalous silence about their plight. Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands,” noted Fortenberry.
