Mideast Christian groups urge UN to act on Islamic State persecution
The memorandum notes how the Yazidi and Christian communities have faced "systematic acts of ethnic cleansing, massacres, assassinations, abduction, rape, and kidnappings."
Assyrian Christian children who were displaced by the Islamic State terror group are pictured in Ankawa, Iraq, trying to keep warm during a snowstorm(photo credit: JNS.ORG)ByJNS.ORG