2013 April 18, 2013 â Before the rise of ISIS, the ACLJ draws attention to the worsening plight of Christians in Syria.
2014- June 29, 2014 â ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.
July 19, 2014 â ISIS takes over Mosul and other towns in Syria and gives an ultimatum to Christians: they must convert to Islam, pay jizya, or
leave, and if they refuse they will die.
August 7th, 2014 â ISIS captured the primarily Assyrian Christian towns of Qaraqosh, Tel Keppe, Bartella, and Karamlish, prompting the residents to
flee. More than 100,000 Iraqi Christians were forced to flee their homes and leave all their property behind after ISIS invaded
Qaraqosh and surrounding towns in the Nineveh Plains Province of Iraq.
August 8, 2014 â Human Rights Office in Iraq reports ISIS has been burying hundreds of children and young people alive in Christian region of
Mosul.
August 8, 2014 â After capturing the Iraqi town of Sinjar, ISIS fighters replace church crucifixes with ISIS flags. Christian leaders in the area also
reported âsystematic beheadings of children.â
August 12, 2014 â Reports surface of a 5-year-old Anglican Christian boy being cut in half by ISIS in Baghdad.
August 15, 2014 â Reports estimate that over 1,500 Christians and Yazidis have been abducted and forced to become sex slaves to ISIS fighters.
August 15, 2014 â In light of the recent attacks, the ACLJ began a petition to recognize the genocide and to protect the Christians in the Middle
East.
August 19, 2014 â Journalist James Foley becomes first American citizen and American Christian to be executed by ISIS and was brutally killed via
decapitation.
August 27, 2014 â The ACLJ filed a legal memorandum with the U.N. detailing ISISâs assets, tactics, and atrocities, as well as condemning âthe
genocide of Christians being perpetrated by ISIS in Iraq.â
September 15, 2014 â The ACLJ released #1 New York Times bestseller, Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Canât Ignore, exposing the atrocities committed
by ISIS against Christians and other religious minorities.
October 2014 â A United Nations report confirmed that ISIS was holding 7,000 Yazidi women as sex slaves.
2015-
February 12, 2015 â ISIS released a video that appeared to show its militants in Libya beheading a group of Egyptian Christians who had been
kidnapped in January.
February 23, 2015 â 1,500 ISIS fighters attacked a series of Christian towns in northeast Syria, burning churches, taking as many as 90 hostages,
and forcing hundreds to flee from their homes. When ISIS fighters attacked the town of Tel Shamiram, they separated out the
men, around 50 of whom they have taken into the mountains, and approximately 90 women and children are being held
prisoner in the village by ISIS militants.
March 11, 2015 â ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations regarding âProtecting Religious
Freedom Abroadâ and stated that â[t]he heinous atrocities committed by ISIS against Christians . . . is nothing short of
genocide.â
April 19, 2015 â ISIS released a video of militants from two of its Libya affiliates killing dozens of Ethiopian Christians, some by beheading and
others by shooting.
July 9, 2015 â Four children were killed when ISIS blew up the historic Mother of Aid church in Mosul.
August 2015 â Twelve Syrian Christians (including women and children) were brutally and publicly tortured and executed in village near Aleppo,
Syria, because they refuse to convert to Islam. ISIS members cut off young boyâs fingers and beat him as they demanded his father
and two other men renounce Christianity, before executing all four by crucifixion. Eight women were publicly raped and beheaded
for refusing to renounce Christ.
August 2015 â A Syrian Priest who was kidnapped by ISIS was ransomed to his family for $120,000. When his family paid the ransom, ISIS had his
body chopped up and mailed back to his family instead of releasing him as promised.
August 18, 2015 â The ACLJ launched a targeted legal advocacy campaign through a petition to the Obama Administration urging the
Administration â specifically Secretary of State Kerry â to recognize the genocide against Christians.
October 5, 2015 â The ACLJ joins a coalition of concerned non-governmental organizations and individuals by sending a letter to President Obama
regarding the International Religious Freedom Roundtable. The letter requests that President Obama officially recognize ISISâs
actions as genocide.
October 8, 2015 â ISIS released video showing three of the Assyrian Christian men kidnapped in Khabur being executed. It was reported that 202
of the 253 kidnapped Assyrians were still in captivity, each one with a demanded ransom of $100,000.
December 18, 2016 â The ACLJâs European-based affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), submitted an amicus brief to the
European Court of Human Rights âto share testimony about the current genocide of Christians in Iraq at the hands of ISIS.â
December 30, 2015 â ISIS suicide bombings took place in Syria in three restaurants frequented by Kurds and Assyrian Christians, killing sixteen
and injuring dozens.
Late 2015â ISIS bombed and demolished Iraqâs older monastery, St. Elijahâs, which had stood near Mosul for more than 1,400 years. Father Paul Thabit Habib, a Catholic priest said that Iraqâs âChristian history was âbeing barbarically leveledâ. He added, ââ[W]e see it as an attempt to expel us from Iraq, eliminating and finishing our existence in this land.ââ
2016
February 5, 2016 â The ACLJ sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry regarding legal analysis of the law of genocide as applied to the
atrocities being committed by ISIS against Christians
February 15, 2016 â Through the ECLJ, the ACLJ submitted a written statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council, requesting that the U.N. join
other international bodies and publically proclaim that Christians in Iraq and Syria are victims of genocide and deserving of
international assistance and protection.
March 4, 2016 â Multiple gunmen linked to ISIS killed 18 people at a nursing home founded by Mother Teresa and run by Christian nuns in
Yemen.
March 11, 2016 â The ECLJ presented an oral statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) asking the HRC to condemn the genocide
against Christians.
March 14, 2016 â A bipartisan resolution that was drafted in 2015 passes the House of Representatives. The resolution finally declares the
atrocities committed by ISIS are âgenocideâ.
April 22, 2016 â The ACLJ launches its seven-point, multipronged legal advocacy effort to stop the genocide and protect Christians.
April 28, 2016 â The ACLJ sent a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon requesting that the U.N. formally recognize that ongoing atrocities
committed by ISIS against Christians as genocide.
May 19, 2016 â The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passes a bill containing several key recommendations that Dr. Sekulow proposed
during his March 11, 2015 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign
Operations, and Related Programs.
May 23, 2016 â The ACLJ sent a second letter to Secretary of State John Kerry to thank him for declaring ISISâs atrocities as âgenocide against . .
Christiansâ and also requesting that he use his position to mobilize the international community to stop the genocide and protect
the victims.
May 27, 2016 â The ACLJ submitted a written Statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council requesting that the U.N. ârecognize the ISIS atrocities
against Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities as genocide and take immediate appropriate action.â
June 6, 2016 â The ACLJ sent a letter to United States Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power thanking her for her consistent stance against
genocide. The letter also urged her to âcontinue and intensifyâ efforts to mobilize the international community to stop the
genocide against Christians and others religious minorities by ISIS.
June 7, 2016 â A twelve-year-old Christian girl was burned to death in her own home by ISIS terrorists in Mosul, Iraq.
June 16, 2016 â The ACLJ sent letter to the 47 Member States of the U.N. Human Rights Council regarding the upcoming genocide discussions at
the Councilâs June meeting and asking for their support in naming ISISâs actions âgenocideâ. Some of the contacted Member
States mention genocide as the ACLJ encouraged, which shows the progress being made within the international community to
stop these hate-filled actions by ISIS.
June 22, 2016 â The ECLJ delivered an oral intervention at the U.N. on behalf of Christian victims of genocide and urged U.N. Human Rights
Council to declare ISISâs atrocities as genocide against Christians.
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