One Free World International and Religious Freedoms

Canadian government: By Stephanie Levitz The Canadian Press10:19 PM, Tues., June 7, 2016 OTTAWA—At least 400 Yazidi women raped and tortured by Islamic militants could have safe passage to Canada if the government would heed a proposal to rescue them, a religious freedoms organization says, according to Toronto Star. One Free World International says in their drive to resettle more than 25,000 Syrian refugees, the Liberals are turning their backs on the most vulnerable — religious minorities who are often a direct target of warring factions in the ongoing conflicts in the region. A religious freedoms group wants the Canadian government to take action and rescue at 400 Yazidi women, who have been raped and tortured. The group has identified 400 Yazidi women and their families, about 1,600 people in all, living in displaced persons camps in Kurdistan. Yazidis, ethnic Kurds whose faith dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, gained global attention in 2014 when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captured the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq, forcing nearly 50,000 to flee to a mountain top where they were besieged for weeks. It has a plan to bring them to Canada, but says the proposal is being ignored. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.