{"id":53669,"date":"2016-03-11T03:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T03:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/crux_john_allen-report_insists_isis_is_guilty_of_genocide_against_christia\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T03:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T03:05:30","slug":"crux_john_allen-report_insists_isis_is_guilty_of_genocide_against_christia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53669","title":{"rendered":"(Crux) John Allen&#8211;Report insists ISIS is guilty of \u201d\u02dcgenocide\u2019 against Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major report released Thursday by two US-based Christian organizations argues for including Iraqi, Syrian, and Libyan Christians as victims of genocide perpetrated by ISIS, ahead of a March 17 deadline for the US State Department to make a finding about whether, and to which categories of ISIS victims, the term \u201cgenocide\u201d\u009d applies.<\/p>\n<p>Although experts say a finding of genocide would not immediately trigger changes in US foreign policy or the acceptance of refugees and asylum seekers, it\u2019s nevertheless important since both domestic and international law require that acts of genocide be investigated and those responsible indicted and prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>The 278-page report was released by the Knights of Columbus in partnership with \u201cIn Defense of Christians,\u201d\u009d a US-based research and advocacy organization devoted to protecting Christians in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/church\/2016\/03\/10\/report-insists-isis-is-guilty-of-genocide-against-christians\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major report released Thursday by two US-based Christian organizations argues for including Iraqi, Syrian, and Libyan Christians as victims of genocide perpetrated by ISIS, ahead of a March 17 deadline for the US State Department to make a finding<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53669\">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":[39,40,50,42,143,168,144,426,203,154,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","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\/53669","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=53669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}