Today, from the Jerusalem Post: Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority, burying some alive and taking hundreds of women as slaves, an Iraqi government minister said on Sunday. Human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani accused the Sunni Muslim insurgents – who have ordered the community they regard as “devil…

(CNN) — The Sinjar Mountains rise suddenly from the endless desert of northern Iraq, a ridge of craggy rock some 50 kilometers (30 miles) long, running east to west. Barren and windswept, some 1,400 meters (4,600 feet) high, they make a forbidding sight. But for centuries, they have been the refuge of the desperate and…

Iraqi journalist Dahlia al-Aqidi recently launched the “We Are All Christians” campaign to protest the displacement of Mosul’s Christians at the hands of the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL). Al-Aqidi, who is from a Sunni family, wore a cross to confirm her support for this cause. The journalist, who works for “Houna Baghdad”,…

Earlier this week reports came out of IRAQ that the Islamist extremist group ISIS was murdering hundred of people, and driving thousands out of their homes and into the mountains of IRAQ.  Here is the report from Christian Solidarity International (CSI), also reported in some of the major media: In the last three weeks, the…