As Britain's Doors Remain Closed to Christians Fleeing the IS Bloodbath
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1 HEART OF SUSSEX August/September 2015 [email protected] October/November ADVERTS DEADLINE: 15 September 2015 SHARING NEWS AND EVENTS ACROSS OUR REGION where70 soldp DELIVERED TO OVER 400 CHURCHES with Kent and Surrey YOUR LOCAL CHRISTIAN VOICE • www.heartpublications.co.uk • August/September 2015 Partner church Persecution Clubbing didn’t Why Germany prospered after profile p15 watch p8–10 work for me p18 the Holocaust– reviews p17 As Britain’s doors remain closed to Christians fleeing the IS bloodbath, we reveal the true figures behind last year’s savage Middle East winter 6,000 FROZE TO DEATH IN CAMPS WHAT ISLAMIC STATE FAILED TO DO, THE IRAQI WINTER DID TO THOUSANDS OF FLEEING FAMILIES. The shocking figure of those who next biting winter is just a few froze to death in refugee camps months away. – an estimated 6,000 according The horrors the families to the regional governor – were endured were related by their revealed to HEART by a Kurdish- children to Dr Baker and born Danish doctor working ‘David’, an aid worker who with the thousands of homeless visited the camps in Duhok, Christians, Yezidis and Muslims Kurdistan with relief supplies in Iraqi Kurdistan. collected by Christian and Speaking exclusively to Jewish charities. HEART via a Sussex charity Those who did not see contact, Dr Mariwen Baker their parents murdered for said he is using his own money being Christian, Yezidi or to arrange shipment of vital Shi’a Muslim, still lost family medicines and vitamins for members after they fled their the survivors, who are now homes to hastily erected tents. suffering from a lack of clean When winter came they were water, food/milk, medical still there and while some Orphaned by IS drugs and electricity in the men survived, thousands froze While British parents were buying ‘Frozen’ merchandise for their children, thousands of women and extreme summer heat of up to death – mainly women and children actually froze to death in refugee camps such as this one in Kabarto, Kurdistan, last winter. to 48 degrees Celsius. And the children who were less hardy. 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It adds: FLEEING CHRISTIANS ESCAPING THE “They are being killed, enslaved MIDDLE EAST BLOODBATH. and persecuted by so-called Islamic State and are forced Barnabas Fund, one of the to flee from their homes. Their main organisations working to homes are being destroyed and help the persecuted Church, they have no safe areas in the has launched a petition for region.” voters to ask the Government to The first signatories to help. It can be signed at https:// the petition include Lord Kabarto, one of the 23 refugee camps in Duhok province, encompasses approximately 6 000 families, barnabasfund.org/save-the- Carey, former Archbishop christians-petition of Canterbury, Dr Patrick most of them Yezidi Kurds from the town of Sinjar. The refugees have limited clean water and food It has launched Operation Sookhdeo, International In Kurdistan there are approximately 1.8 million head. Hitler had given people numbers. Each Safe Haven to provide refuge Director of the Barnabas Fund refugees distributed over three provinces; of these children had a name. abroad for Christians and the and Canon Andrew White, the Erbil, Duhok and Sulaimaniyah. There are 0.8 David declared himself impressed by how first results were seen this July former Vicar of Baghdad. million of them in 23 camps in Duhok alone the Kurdish people are helping all the refugees when 47 Christian families Dr Patrick Sookhdeo said, (where the population before their arrival was in their own region; Christians, Muslims and arrived safely in Poland after “With the rise of Islamic State less than 1.2 million). Regional government even some Jews already live side by side in being smuggled out of Syria via we are seeing what looks set to and local relief agencies are fully stretched in Kurdistan. David promised to tell the story Beirut. Yet so far the British become a ‘genocide’ of Christians trying to cope with this huge increase despite and publicise the plight and despair of these government has not made any in the Middle East, yet the UK their limited budget, because earlier in 2015 people, all victims of circumstance.