KERRY DETERMINES ISIS GROUP COMMITTING GENOCIDE: WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? Secretary of State John Kerry formally declared ISIS' slaughter of Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims in Iraq and Syria a “genocide” on 17 March 2016, following in the footsteps of Congress and the European Parliament. ISIS committed the atrocities at the core of the declaration in August of 2014, when it killed as many as 5,000 Yazidi men, kidnapped as many more women, and trapped 50,000 followers of the religion on Sinjar Mountain near the border of Syria. A recently published 280-page report also identified by name more than 1,100 Christians who had been killed by ISIS. It also detailed numerous instances of people kidnapped, raped, sold into slavery and driven from their homes, along with the destruction of churches. But it took the Obama administration 19 months to arrive at this week’s determination as it weighed the legal ramifications of calling the massacre a genocide . Although the United States is involved in military strikes against ISIS and has helped prevent a few incidents of ethnic cleansing, the decision does not carry the legal implication of a verdict of guilt or conviction on genocide charges. Kerry underscored this several times in his remarks. “Such decisions will be left to international or other tribunals such as the International Criminal Court, ICC,” said Kerry. (UK Daily Mail) 

Can it be denied that although the Obama administration has agreed that the obvious term “genocide” can be applied to the massacre, rape, enslavement, and loss of homes to thousands of Christians and other people groups by ISIS, that in the same breath they are careful to legally guard themselves from having to do anything about it? On 29 Feb. 2016, it was disclosed that the USA government has admitted 651 Syrian refugees into the United States since ISIS terrorists attacked Paris last Nov. 2015. Only three of those (0.46%) are Christians. Please continue to pray for the downfall of the brutal ISIS terrorist organizations and for the deliverance of all who are besieged by it.