The “vicar of Baghdad” has told a Hampshire congregation about the horrifying challenges facing his mission of Christianity in Iraq.
Andrew White, the Anglican Chaplain to the Iraqi capital, told fellow Christians at Southampton’s Highfield Church of the terrorism and violence that blights the lives of ordinary citizens and the church where he preaches.
During a series of addresses he said the number of Christian followers in the country has dwindled to around 200,000, from more than a million before the 2003 invasion.
If folk have not yet read Andrew’s book of the same title, [i]The Vicar of Baghdad[/i], which came out last year, they should absolutely do so: a glorious read even if at times harrowing. And please remember him in your prayers, as he has been diagnosed with MS, which explains his voice in this interview.