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| In an historic resolution this week, the European Parliament has officially declared the atrocities committed by ISIS to be genocide. The resolution, drafted in response to the targeting of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East, is hoped to accelerate UN action in intervening in the crisis. | |
| Disasters/War | Christian Concern - 6th February 2016 |
| The head of the Syrian Catholic Church, Mar Ignace Youssif III Youan, has said the West has betrayed Syrians and caused an endless conflict in the country. He said: ‘We Christians are not able to live in this chaos.’ He added that the West has ignored the advice of Syrians, assuming that Assad's regime could be destroyed in a few months, and now has too much faith in airstrikes as the answer. | |
| Disasters/War | Bible Society - 20th November 2015 |
| The Democratic Republic of Congo is a vast area the size of Western Europe…and the war in the east of the country, triggered by the Rwandan genocide, has over the last 20 years claimed an estimated 5 million lives. | |
| Disasters/War | Evangelicals Now - September 2014 |
| Is religion the main cause of war as some critics claim? Not according to research by Bradford University: Only 10% of all wars in the 20th and 21st century have had a clear religious motivation. Even Arab-Israeli wars were judged to be primarily nationalistic, not religious. The report states that in the 20th century, ‘atheistic totalitarian states (Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China) have perpetrated more mass murder than any state dominated by a religious faith. The report noted the positive role of religion in pressing for non-violent resolution of conflicts and that ‘very few, if any, wars in the past 100 years have been purely religiously motivated wars’. | |
| Disasters/War | Christianity Magazine - November 2014 and God & War: An Audit and an Explanation (2003) |
| British-born jihadists in Iraq and Syria could be temporarily banned from returning to the UK under plans being considered by the government. UK nationals suspected of being involved in terror acts could be allowed to keep their British citizenship. But they would be prevented from re-entering the UK for a period of time. David Cameron will set out plans to counter the threat posed by Islamic State militants to MPs today. At least 500 people from the UK are thought to have gone to fight in Syria. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, 1st September, 2014 |
| David Cameron has vowed to examine licences for the sale of arms to Russia after claims they breached a ban. It comes after MPs warned export licences for the sale of arms, including components for anti-aircraft guns, remained in place despite fears Moscow was arming rebels in Ukraine. Downing Street said the UK had not sold arms to Russia’s armed forces since March. The Prime Minister, who has criticised other EU countries’ deals with Moscow, said he was confident that was still so but the claims would be examined in detail. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, July 24, 2014 |
| Chemicals supplied by British firms to Syria in the early 1980s are likely to have been used to make nerve agent sarin, William Hague has said. The Foreign Secretary said records showed a number of companies exported substances to the country in the mid 1980s that had legitimate uses in producing plastics and pharmaceuticals, and were not restricted under international or UK law. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, July 10, 2014 |
| Church leaders from various denominations in South Sudan have issued a letter expressing sadness and condemnation concerning the recent violence in the country and calling on the government to ‘take control of the situation and protect its citizens’. The letter expresses concern that the violence is being characterised as a conflict between the Dinka and Nuer tribes and asked the members of this groups not to accept the characterisation. | |
| Disasters/War | Life and Work, March 2014. |
| Christians in Syria are accusing al-Qaeda-backed Islamists of having carried out one of the worst atrocities of the war so far and killed more than 40 members of the minority Christian community during their occupation of the town of Sadad, north of Damascus. The Syrian government announced last week that its forces had regained control of this strategic town. | |
| Disasters/War | Protestant Truth, January-February 2014 |
| An extra £100 million will be spent over the next year tackling the aftermath of the devastating floods that have hit Britain, David Cameron has announced. Some £75 million will fund repairs, £15 million will go on maintenance and £10 million has been earmarked for ‘urgent work’ in Somerset, the Prime Minister said. Stormy weather has left thousands of homes without power and transport networks in chaos amid battering winds and severe flood warnings. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, February 6, 2014 |
| William Hague has dismissed a bid to prosecute British politicians and senior military figures over alleged war crimes in Iraq. The Foreign Secretary said there was no need for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate allegations of UK forces abusing and killing detainees in their custody. There had been no “systematic” torture by troops, and individual cases had either already been dealt with or were the subject of probes, he said. The head of the army, General Sir Peter Wall, ex-defence secretary Geoff Hoon, and former defence minister Adam Ingram are among those named in a 250-page dossier sent to the ICC, according to the Independent on Sunday. Human rights lawyers have drawn on the cases of more than 400 Iraqis, arguing they represent “thousands of allegations”. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, January 13, 2014 |
| International inspectors have begun destroying Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said. A team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is overseeing the removal of the weapons. It is not clear which site the crews were at but the official said work included dismantling missile warheads and aerial bombs. The team was sent in following international condemnations of a chemical attack near the Syrian capital Damascus in August. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, October 7 2013 |
| The cost paid by the West for not getting involved in the conflict in Syria could be higher than that of intervening in the civil war, Tony Blair has warned. The former PM said the ‘predominant emotion’ in the West was to stay out of Syria, where rebels are battling to oust Bashar Assad and his regime. But he warned that the cost of staying out ‘may be paid in a higher price later’. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel – June 20, 2013 |
| At least 93,000 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict, according to latest United Nations figures. This represents a rise of more than 30,000 since the UN last issued figures covering the period to November 2012. At least 5,000 people have been dying in Syria every month since last July, the UN’s human rights body says. But it says these statistics are an underestimate as it believes many deaths have not been reported. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, June 14, 2013 |
| David Cameron has warned that the West faces a decades-long struggle against Islamic terrorism in north Africa in the wake of the bloody and violent climax to the Algerian hostage crisis. Amid warnings that the confirmed death toll of 23 hostages was set to rise, the Prime Minister said the militants who attacked the BP gas plant represented a “global threat” which required a “global response”. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, January 21, 2013 |
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