U.S. Vice President Mike Pence criticized the United Nations’ efforts to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East in a speech Oct. 25.
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Congressman says inaction on aid to those suffering in Iraq unconscionable
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, blasted unnamed “career staff” at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development for inaction that he said will lead to further genocide of Christians, Yezidis and other religious minorities in Iraq at the hands of Islamic State militants.