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Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., speaks during a hearing on genocide in Iraq and Syria held on Oct. 3 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Smith, who is senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired the hearing. (CNS photo/Erin Granzow, House Office of Photography)
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Kurt Jensen - Catholic News Service
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said that IS militants began committing genocide against Yezidis and Christians in Iraq in 2014, and "three years later, they are still not receiving the assistance they need from the United States and so their survival in their ancient homelands is in jeopardy."
An Iraqi soldier carries an injured woman during a battle with the Islamic State group in Mosul on Feb. 28. Iraqi troops were engaged in difficult fighting with Islamic State forces in northern Iraq in an effort to reclaim land held by the militant group.(CNS photo/Goran Tomasevic, Reuters)
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
About 100,000 Christians -- among them more than 60,000 Syriac Catholics -- were expelled from the Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014 as the militants campaigned to expand their reach into Iraq.
Father Emanuel Youkhana, an archimandrite of the Assyrian Church of the East, looks through the rubble of a Syriac Catholic Church on Jan. 27 in Qaraqosh, Iraq. The mannequin and poster were used as target practice. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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Matt Fowler - Catholic News Service
The "revolting reality" of recent wars shows just how urgent it is that the international community act to protect religious minorities in situations of conflict, a top Vatican official told the U.N. General Assembly.
CNS photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ellen K. Boegel
The court is scheduled to hear cases relating to immigration, religious freedom, federalism, voting, employee rights and federal court jurisdiction over foreign governments and corporations.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, seen here at a San Francisco appearance on Aug. 29, was one of three Democrats who questioned judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett about her Catholic beliefs. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Three Democratic senators had pointed questions about the Catholic faith of judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
Displaced Iraqis rest amid rubble after fleeing fighting between Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service forces and Islamic State militants May 15 in Mosul. (CNS photo/Danish Siddiqui, Reuters)
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Michael J. O’Loughlin
“Religious persecution and intolerance remains far too prevalent,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.