UN plea: deal with ISIS genocide

Samia Sleman, 15, a Yazidi who was held hostage and raped by members of the Islamic State when she was 13, cries while speaking at a conference addressing the persecution of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East and Africa at the United Nations April 28. Also pictured is human-rights advocate Jacqueline Isaac. The Vatican mission to the U.N. was a co-sponsor of the conference. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) See UN-CHRISTIANS-MIDDLE-EAST April 29, 2016.

While religious freedom in much of the Middle East is under siege and the civil war in Syria seems to have no end in sight, Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, and others called the United Nations to action.

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