At UN, calls for global response to Christian genocide

Apr 29, 2016 by

From CNA:

The plight of Christians and other Middle East minorities demands action from the international community, one leader in relief efforts said in a panel at the United Nations.

“We have a unique opportunity to change things for the better,” said Carl Anderson, head of the Knights of Columbus. “Never before has the world’s attention been so focused on the suffering of these minorities. Never has their plight been so high on the agenda of the world’s governments, the vast majority of the world’s Muslims, and all people of good will.”

He said the Middle East crisis is “the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis since World War II.”

He cited hundreds of thousands of deaths in Syria and Iraq, the displacement or extermination of entire communities, and the strain of millions of refugees from war and terrorism.

“We face the very real prospect of the extinction of many of the communities indigenous to the region,” Anderson said at a Thursday panel at the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council Chamber.

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