Christians in Iraq are today facing serious persecution, as detailed in a number of recent reports, including in this publication.
Predictably, some of these accounts are filed by sources that were against the war in Iraq, dislike President Bush at a level bordering on hatred, and are more than happy to revel in another example of where they believe the White House has failed in Iraq.
On the other hand, to be sure, many of the accounts come from fair-minded observers with no political agenda ”” such as this publication ”” not to mention the actual victims of the repression.
One very alarming report by the Assyrian International News Agency cites hundreds of killings and an exodus of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians.
There also used to be a Jewish community in Iraq descended from those who “funded the rebuilding of Jerusalem”. They finally left in recent decades. Some of them were in Iran until the Iranian revolution and now many of them have relocated to the Los Angeles area.
An interesting article. Worth reading for sure. May it inform our prayers.