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April 21, 2016

British bishops welcome Commons vote to declare Islamic State atrocities 'genocide'

Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury, England, speaks April 16 at the New Life Evangelical Church in Congleton. Bishop Davies welcomed a House of Commons motion to declare the actions of the Islamic State group as genocide.

LONDON – Catholic bishops have welcomed a unanimous vote by the House of Commons declaring atrocities committed by Islamic State as "genocide."

Published in International