To answer your question: yes. http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/380620/where-do-mosuls-christians-go-now-american-help-needed-nina-shea
There's a couple organizations mentioned about halfway down. E Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 30, 2014, at 15:54, "BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community" <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Daily Beast > June 29, 2014 > > Church Bells Fall Silent in Mosul as Iraq’s Christians Flee > > The advance of ISIS has ended over a thousand years of Christian worship in > Mosul—the latest chapter in the long decline of Christianity in the Middle > East. > Last Sunday, for the first time in 1600 years, no mass was celebrated in > Mosul. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized Iraq’s second > largest city on June 10, causing most Christians in the region to flee in > terror, in new kinship with the torment of Christ crucified on the cross. The > remnant of Mosul’s ancient Christian community, long inhabitants of the place > where many believe Jonah to be buried, now faces annihilation behind ISIS > lines. Those who risk worship must do so in silence, praying under new Sharia > regulations that have stilled every church bell in the city. > > The media has largely ignored the horrifying stories that are emerging from > Mosul. On June 23, the Assyrian International News Agency reported that ISIS > terrorists entered the home of a Christian family in Mosul and demanded that > they pay the jizya (a tax on non-Muslims). According to AINA, “When the > Assyrian family said they did not have the money, three ISIS members raped > the mother and daughter in front of the husband and father. The husband and > father was so traumatized that he committed suicide.” > > Although few reports from ISIS-occupied Iraq can be corroborated, the group’s > record of torture chambers, public executions, and crucifixions lends > credibility to nightmarish accounts from the ground. Since the fall of Mosul, > a litany of evils has replaced the liturgies of the Christians there: a young > boy ripped from the arms of his parents as they ran from the ISIS advance and > shot before their eyes, girls killed for not wearing the hijab. > > Small wonder that since the fall of Mosul, tens of thousands of defenseless > civilians have fled the ISIS onslaught, including the region’s Christians, > whose presence on the Nineveh plains dates back to the earliest centuries of > Christianity. Most have left their homes with nothing but the clothes on > their backs. > > > Steven and his wife Babyl, two Christian refugees now living in Erbil, left > their home in Hamdaniya, in the Mosul area, which ISIS plagued for years > before its recent conquest. In late 2013, ISIS sent Steven a letter that > threatened him with beheading unless he left the city. At first, unwilling to > let extremists uproot his life, he ignored the warning. But ISIS gunmen shot > at him several times, their bullets accomplishing what their letter could > not: persuading Steven and his wife—then newly pregnant—to flee to Jordan. > > Despite the grave risk, the young couple returned to Hamdaniya in early June. > Babyl had taken ill, and Steven, unable to find work in Jordan, desperately > needed money for her medical care. > > Several days later ISIS conquered Mosul. For a second time, Steven and Babyl, > now eight months pregnant, fled their home. Their harrowing escape to Erbil > has ended in a precarious and hardscrabble existence. They fear for their > unborn child, a baby girl who will be born into a family with no belongings, > no money, and little food. Steven summed up the situation at the end of an > email: “I just want to get out of this hell.” > > This human tragedy has its foundation in political instability. The idea of > Iraq was conceived of by foreign policy elite in London; the last to cling to > it are the foreign policy elite in Washington. As the Obama administration > and State Department scramble to save Iraq, a reality that many on the ground > have known for years is coming into focus: Iraq is falling apart. In the > north, Kurdistan—a nation that may not be found on any western map—holds the > greatest hope for those who seek the most fundamental freedoms. Since 2003, > Christians have been fleeing to Kurdistan’s Nineveh plain. The Sunni Kurds, > who tend to be secular in their politics, have offered them a helping hand in > recent years. > > As the horrors unfolded in Iraq, back in Washington, in the briefing room of > a presidential hopeful, an Iraqi bishop made a desperate plea for help via > phone as a delegation of Iraqi Christians seeking greater support for the > Kurds. “We have no food, no petrol, no [means] to protect ourselves. Where > are America’s values? Where is our dignity?” Many in Washington are keen to > see greater Kurdish autonomy, viewing them as the prudent third way between > the Sunni states that have supported Islamist militants (Turkey, Saudi, > Qatar) and Shia Iran and its puppets. The Kurds represent not only the best > hope for an American ally in an increasingly Islamist-dominated region, but > also the best hope for the survival of Christians and other religious > minorities in the Middle East. > > Just a few years ago, no one could have imagined a militant Islamist emirate > stretching across the Fertile Crescent, threatening to expand into > neighboring countries like Lebanon and Jordan. Today, it is difficult to > imagine how ISIS will be defeated. Iraq's post-colonial borders have > collapsed over the past two weeks as ISIS has consolidated and expanded an > emirate from the Euphrates to within striking distance of Bagdad. Now it > commands territory nearly as vast as that of either the Iraqi or Syrian > governments. Barbarism and strategy are not mutually exclusive. ISIS will > likely consolidate its gains near Baghdad, waiting for either the Maliki > government to crumble or for the Shia militias to leave the capital. > > The crisis of Iraqi Christianity precipitated by ISIS’s advance, which is > critical in areas like Mosul, is the latest chapter in the dramatic decline > of Christianity in the Middle East. Muslim (let alone Islamist) homogeneity > in the region would be a cultural catastrophe with global consequences and > national security implications for America. Lack of attention in the Western > press is an indictment of a journalistic and political establishment that is > mostly indifferent to one of the great human rights crises of our time. > > The story of Christianity in Iraq is long and has entered its most difficult > chapter to date. But ISIS will not have the last word. Although the future > appears bleak, Steven and Babyl hope for the day when they can return > home—the day when the church bells of Mosul can ring out once more > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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