The service I attended featured preaching by the Rt. Rev. Martin De Jesus Barahona, Bishop of the Anglican Episcopal Church of El Salvador, who was in town for the Gay Games with a delegation of Salvadorean and Colombian athletes whose trip to the Gay Games was partially funded by Trinity.

Today another holocaust is happening. This time it is in Iraq. Christians are being driven out of their homes and brought to death by the sword if they do not bow to ISIS' Islamic god — Allah. Christians are being systematically wiped from the face of the ancient Arab world, which edges the Holy Land. Their places of worship are being decimated and holy sites are destroyed. The Tomb of Jonah in Mosul, Iraq was reduced to rubble while an 1800-year-old Christian church was burned.

“There are many explicit examples. They have chopped off heads, chopped children in half, hanged people on crosses. The stories you hear are so bad they don’t sound true they are so extreme — but I am afraid they are extreme, and true.”

“People are being killed and their homes blown up. They are putting yellow on their houses and saying they are ‘Nazarines’ and not welcome,” Mr White said.

The same pastor reports on the conditions of the Christians who have fled into the Kurdish-controlled Arbil Province. He says that renting a house if very difficult in his city. "Four families are living with us now in the same apartment of the church. The place is really very narrow and not enough even to one family."