http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/us/as-iraqi-christians-in-us-watch-isis-advance-they-see-a-slow-motion-genocide.html?_r=1
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“We wish to scream, but there are no ears that wish to hear.”
For
the last decade, in fact, the Chaldean Catholics of Iraq — members of
an Eastern Rite church that is affiliated with Roman Catholicism while
retaining its own customs and rites — have been suffering at the hands
of the same kind of terrorists who killed Mr. Sotloff and Mr. Foley.
During that period, the total Christian population of Iraq, the largest
share of which is composed of Chaldean Catholics, has dropped to about
400,000 while as many as a million, by some estimates, have fled.
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“What’s
happening to us?” Bishop Kalabat said he recalls being asked. “Where’s
our government? Where’s the U.S.? Where’s the world? Where’s the church? Where’s God?”
As
he recounted those questions in his office the other day, Bishop
Kalabat reached into his shirt pocket and extracted a crucifix.
“We
are called the Church of Martyrs,” he said. “That’s our pain and our
saving grace. Our faith isn’t a theory. It’s not a set of teachings.
It’s a person and we’re called to be like him. When I look at this evil,
I want to be Rambo. But that won’t do any good. We carry the cross for a
reason.”
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Rev 6:9 | And
when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which
they held: |
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Rev 6:10 | And
they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true,
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the
earth? |
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Rev 6:11 | And
white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto
them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their
fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. |
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Rev 6:12 | And
I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great
earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon
became as blood; |
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Maranatha Come Lord Jesus