Trump Assina Lei de Proteção aos Cristãos da Síria e do Iraque.

Presidente Trump assinou essa semana ato de proteção dos cristãos na Síria e no Iraque, uma força inestimável pára manter a presença dos cristãos na região do Oriente Médio. Muitos líderes religiosos e comunidades nativas do Iraque se reuniram na Casa Branca para a cerimônia da assinatiura da lei que se chama Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability.

O arcebispo Bashar Warda da Igreja Católica Caldeia (participante da Igreja Católica) disse que a lei é um grande acontecimento e uma vitória para as vítimas, em reconhecimento ao sofrimento delas. Ao final da cerimônia o arcbispo abençoou Trump em aramaico  e recitou o Pai Nosso.

O texto do jornal National Catholic Register lembra que no dia 10 de dezembro o Iraque celebrou uma ano de vitória total contra o Estado Islâmico (um feito também que deve muito ao próprio Trump), e que a lei assinada por Trump irá proteger os cristãos e os yazidis contra ameaças do tipo do Estado Islâmico.

A lei foi feita com apoio dos maiores partidos políticos dos Estados Unidos e autoriza financiamento direto para organizações que protejam os grupos religiosos do Iraque e da Síria, sem passar por intermediários internacionais.

Sensacional.

Vejam parte do texto do National Catholic Register:

NATION |  DEC. 13, 2018

‘Victory for Victims’: Trump Signs Genocide Relief Act for Iraqi and Syrian Christians

The Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act is hailed as a vital piece in keeping the Christian presence alive in ancestral homelands.

Peter Jesserer Smith

WASHINGTON — Just one day after Iraq celebrated the anniversary of its total victory over the Islamic State terrorist army, President Donald Trump signed into law a new bill designed to provide dedicated U.S. support directly to the Christian and Yazidi victims of ISIS’ campaign of genocide.

“The law in itself is an achievement,” Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Erbil told the Register, saying it was “a victory for the victims and a recognition of the painful road they walked.”

Faith leaders and representatives of the indigenous Iraqi communities targeted for extinction gathered around President Trump in the White House Oval Office as he signed the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief 

and Accountability Act (H.R. 390) into law Dec. 11.

The president passed out replica signing pens to each representative, but gave the pen he personally used to sign the long-awaited legislation to Archbishop Warda himself. Afterward, the archbishop gave the president a blessing in Aramaic, “the language of Jesus,” and recited the Lord’s Prayer.

The bipartisan law, sponsored by Reps. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., will authorize and direct the federal government to fund organizations, including faith-based groups, that are on the ground providing Christian, Yazidi and other survivors targeted by ISIS the resources they need to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.

Carl Anderson, the supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, attended the signing and told the Register the bipartisanship showed “the best that is America” and that the country was on the side of genocide victims.

“National strength is defending people who are defenseless,” Anderson said. “I think today really showed what is best about America, in a lot of ways.”

Liberation From ISIS

In 2014, ISIS had marched into Iraq from Syria, conquering a vast swath of land for its self-declared “caliphate.” The army inflicted vicious atrocities on non-Sunni peoples under its control, devastating the numerically small Christian and Yazidi communities. ISIS finally turned its reign of terror on the remaining 

Sunni Muslims.

Iraqi forces eventually liberated the Nineveh Plain and Mosul from ISIS, declaring victory over the so-called caliphate Dec. 10, 2017, and allowing Christians for the first time in four years to celebrate Christmas in the shattered city.

The population of Christians in Iraq is down significantly: Fewer than 200,000 Christians remain of the 500,000 estimated in Iraq before ISIS.