"Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just.” Ps 7:9

HOUSE DECLARES ISIS IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST CHRISTIANS: The House approved a resolution Monday 14 March 2016 that declares ISIS is committing genocide against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East - putting even more pressure on the Obama administration to do the same ahead of a deadline later this week. The resolution passed the House with a unanimous vote of 383-0. The resolution came to a vote after the release of a graphic new report by the Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians on ISIS atrocities which disclosed widespread violence such as beheadings, crucifixions, rapes and sexual enslavement. The report made the case that the terror campaign against Christians and other minorities in Syria, Iraq and other parts of the Middle East is, in fact, genocide. “When ISIS systematically targets Christians, Yezidis, and other ethnic and religious minorities for extermination, this is not only a grave injustice - it is a threat to civilization itself,” said Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb. “We must call the violence by its proper name: genocide.” The resolution was voted on ahead of a congressionally mandated 17 March 2016 deadline for Secretary of State John Kerry and the White House to make a decision on whether to make such a declaration. The administration has so far declined to take an official position. A 1948 UN treaty on genocide requires signatories, including the United States, to "undertake to prevent and to punish” acts intended “to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." (Fox)