Iraq Catholic leader says Islamic State worse than Genghis Khan

The head of Iraq's largest church said on Sunday that Islamic State militants who drove Christians out of Mosul were worse than Mongol leader Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu who ransacked medieval Baghdad. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako led a wave of condemnation for the Sunni Islamists who demanded Christians either  convert, submit to their radical rule and pay a religious levy or face death by the sword. At the Vatican, Pope Francis decried what he said was the persecution of Christians in the birthplace of their faith, while UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the Islamic State's actions could constitute a crime against humanity. ‘The heinous crime of the Islamic State was carried out not just against Christians, but against humanity,’ Sako told a special church service in east Baghdad where around 200 Muslims joined Christians in solidarity, according to Yahoo News.