Then the Nazarene fund noticed something disturbing. Although there were a few organizations helping the Christians escape there was no one helping the Yazidi who are facing extermination. This of course is not right. As Christians it is our duty to help and serve all of mankind not just other Christians. So the Nazarene fund has started to help them escape as well.
The Yazidi's plight is unique. The Christians have many places where they can go and still be around those who believe in a similar fashion. The last large population of Yazidi's left is in Iraq. Most of the Yazidi's in Iraq are looking for a safe space to dwell at least for the time being and as a result they have fled to the Northern Kurdish controlled area's and have found safety at least for the time being. Many want to flee Iraq completely and we must help any who want to relocate. Some want to stay in Iraq and try to preserve what little of their culture is left and we should help them do that as well.
The Yazidi religion and culture is in danger of being completely exterminated. ISIS is killing as many as possible and many of the survivors will be going to places like Europe and Australia, it will be hard for the religion to continue if its few adherents are too separated. This would be a tragedy but in a hundred years this religion could be dead. The Nazarene fund is trying to resettle the Yazidi and help them establish new lives in other area's of Iraq, for those who want to stay and keep their culture alive in Iraq. They are also trying to help those who are trying to leave Iraq and help them find stability elsewhere.
It is easy to look back in history at genocides in the past and why no one did anything, but this is a genocide going on right now and we have the power to do something. Are we going to do something or do we let evil win. Oh yes this can never be the holocaust because there are only tens of thousands left not millions, but will we stand aside and see thousands die or be forced into conversion and let a religion be wiped out by mad men? I hope that's not who we are.
I rarely ask this of you but share this post. Share this message. Let's save as many as we can. get this message out. Write blog posts of your own. Use any medium available to you. Let's fight for the right. Let's be that good Samaritan let's live by the golden rule. Come on Let's do this.
This is where you can go to help. Now spread the word!
http://thenazarenefund.org/