{"id":53594,"date":"2016-03-05T02:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_house_committee_calls_attacks_on_christians_others_in_middle_east_genoc\/"},"modified":"2016-03-05T02:00:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T02:00:58","slug":"cns_house_committee_calls_attacks_on_christians_others_in_middle_east_genoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53594","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) House Committee calls attacks on Christians, others in Middle East &#39;genocide&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resolution on genocide, introduced by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Nebraska, &#8220;expresses the sense of Congress that the atrocities committed by ISIS against Christians, Yezidis, and other ethnic and religious minorities constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ISIS commits mass murder, beheadings, crucifixions, rape, torture, enslavement and the kidnapping of children, among other atrocities,&#8221; said the committee&#8217;s chairman, Rep. Ed Royce, R-California. &#8220;ISIS has said it will not allow the continued existence of the Yezidi. And zero indigenous Christian communities remain in areas under ISIS control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State &#8220;is guilty of genocide and it is time we speak the truth about their atrocities. I hope the administration and the world will do the same, before it&#8217;s too late,&#8221; Royce added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/peace-justice\/committee-calls-attacks-christians-others-middle-east-genocide\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resolution on genocide, introduced by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Nebraska, &#8220;expresses the sense of Congress that the atrocities committed by ISIS against Christians, Yezidis, and other ethnic and religious minorities constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.&#8221; &#8220;ISIS commits<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53594\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,560,168,617,557,426,203,659,154,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}