{"id":12012,"date":"2015-12-22T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T07:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2015-12-22T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T07:46:03","slug":"149-iraqi-christian-refuges-taken-to-safety-in-slovakia-in-secret-operation-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2015\/12\/22\/149-iraqi-christian-refuges-taken-to-safety-in-slovakia-in-secret-operation-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"149 Iraqi Christian refuges taken to safety in Slovakia in secret operation &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><strong>149 Iraqi Christian refuges taken to safety in Slovakia in secret operation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>News has just broken that 149 Christian refugees who escaped from ISIS in Iraq are now safe and will be celebrating Christmas in Slovakia, thanks to a secret co-ordinated rescue mission led by Christian writer Johnnie Moore and by media personality Glenn Beck. Moore is a humanitarian who for years has helped the Church in Iraq and Syria and spoken out against the persecution of Middle Eastern Christians. Earlier this year he published a\u00a0 book \u201cDefying ISIS: Preserving Christianity in the Place of Its Birth and in Your Own Backyard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike hundreds of thousands of others, these Christian refugees did not have to pay illegal smugglers or endure the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean in an unsafe boat. A privately chartered Airbus transported them from their IS \u2013controlled home in theNineveh Plains, a region in northeast Iraq, to safety in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue operation was shrouded in secrecy. The only hint was a cryptic tweet &#8220;Requesting prayer for something I have been quietly working on for a long time. The next 24 hours are critical,&#8221; sent out\u00a0 by Moore shortly before the rescue flight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working on this for about six months,&#8221;revealed Moore. Concerned about safety of the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Iraq and Syria, he said &#8220;We decided to work on providing safe and legal ways for people to get out&#8221;. Prolonged negotiation efforts with various countries were unsuccessful: \u201cUnfortunately very, very few countries would even talk to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It took two and a half months of negotiation to get Slovakia to agree. However, the outcome for future rescues looks hopeful, as Moore commented: \u201c This is the first group in a number of groups that we hope to be able to resettle in the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>149 Iraqi Christian refuges taken to safety in Slovakia in secret operation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; News has just broken that 149 Christian refugees who escaped from ISIS in Iraq are now safe and will be celebrating Christmas in Slovakia, thanks to a secret co-ordinated rescue mission led by Christian writer Johnnie Moore and by media personality Glenn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>149 Iraqi Christian refuges taken to safety in Slovakia in secret operation - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2015\/12\/22\/149-iraqi-christian-refuges-taken-to-safety-in-slovakia-in-secret-operation-acn-malta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"149 Iraqi Christian refuges taken to safety in Slovakia in secret operation - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"149 Iraqi Christian refuges taken to safety in Slovakia in secret operation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; 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