[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the dire situation of Christians in Iraq, particularly after ISIS's takeover of the key city of Mosul. The Islamic extremist group drove most of the Christians out of the city, and issued an ultimatum to those who remained: covert to Islam, pay a hefty tax, or face death. Refreshingly, the New York Times spotlighted the crisis in an op-ed on 24 July 2014, and noted that the Christian community in Mosul has lived there for nearly 2,000 years.
The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church, Ignatius Yousef Younan III, along with Father Jonathan Morris, detailed ISIS's anti-Christian pogrom on the 23 July 2014 edition of Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends.