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Prevent Genocide of Middle East Christians and Other Religious Minorities!

Prevent Genocide of Middle East Christians and Other Religious Minorities!

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, Barack Obama, President of the USA, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, Xi Jinping, President of China, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the UK, François Hollande, President of France, The Presidents of all other UN member states whose citizens will sign the petition
“Entire communities are at risk of being forced out of Syria or of being killed inside the country.”
UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic

“We cannot accept and thereby facilitate what looks more and more like a particularly perverse program of cleansing in the Middle East, religious cleansing.”
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy

“Churches in the Middle East are threatened in their very existence.”
Former Pope Benedict XVI


The lives of millions of people and the future of a religiously-diverse region are in great danger. Since the start of the Arab uprisings, the trend towards religious cleansing has accelerated:

Iraq: Of the approximately 1.5 million Christians, Mandeans and Yezidis in 2003, only a few hundred thousand remain.

Syria: Armed opposition groups chant, “Alawites to the grave, Christians to Beirut!” Several regions have already been cleansed of religious minorities.

Egypt: In the worst anti-Christian violence in over a century, radical Islamists have systematically attacked more than 130 Christian churches, homes and schools across the country since August 14, 2013.

Under UN Security Council Resolution 1366 and the 1948 Genocide Convention, the international community is obliged to respond to this crisis. The time for action is now. Raise your voice!

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