The Islamic extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has committed a horrific war atrocity that was caught on video:  the cutting in half of a 5-year-old Christian boy.

The boy, named Andrew, was the child of a founding member of St. George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad.  He was slaughtered in an attack on the Christian town of Qaraqosh.

“I’m almost in tears because I’ve just had somebody in my room whose little child was cut in half,” Anglican Canon Andrew White of St. George’s Church told the Anglican Communion News Service Friday. “I baptized his child in my church in Baghdad. This little boy, they named him after me — he was called Andrew.”

The family had fled to Qaraqosh, which had been under the protection of Kurdish fighters.  However, the Islamic State overran the Kurdish fighters and slaughtered as many Christians as they could capture as the believers fled the city.

The dead boy’s parents and brother were able to make it to the city of Arbil, which President Obama said would be under the protection of the U.S. military because of the U.S. consulate being located in the town.

The Christian Post reports that Iraqi church leaders have asked for the world to pray for them and to send money so they can purchase supplies, food and clothing for the tens of thousands of Christians fleeing the terrorists.