"The international community must respond to the outrages systematically committed by Daesh with a rock-solid resolve to prevent similar future abominations from recurring."

“I call on the Lord that he may convert the hearts of the terrorist and free the world of hate and that crazy homicide that abuses the name of God to disseminate death.”

The aid will go to "faith-based and private organizations" to help those who are persecuted in the region, according to Vice President Mike Pence.

"If ever there was a time to collectively support the largest remaining Christian population in the Middle East, it is now."

"We have been abandoned to solve the problems we did not create."

"This is the dream and the ambition of every patriotic and honorable Palestinian, to reach unification."