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IraqMap reflects the 30 most recent Persecution Reports. Click HERE for the Map Legend.After escaping war, Iraqi Christians Face Moral Risks In US, Says BishopSaturday, May 19th, 2012Muslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2012Saturday, April 28th, 2012Raymond Ibrahim writes for the Gatestone Institute that, “Saudi Arabia's highest Islamic legal authority decreed that churches in the region must be destroyed… American teachers in the Middle East were murdered for being Christian or talking about Christianity; churches were banned or bombed, and nuns terrorized by knife-wielding Muslim mobs.” Ibrahim’s series, titled ‘Muslim Persecution of Christians,’ is published each month to document cases of persecution – whether it be general discrimination, arrests, or murder – committed by Muslims in majority Islamic countries, Asia and the West. In the line of fire — The plight of Middle Eastern ChristiansSunday, April 15th, 2012“Christianity is under heavy attack in the Middle East region with followers of the faith facing persecution and institutionalized discrimination in nations with Islamic-based governments and a jihadi threat in which terrorists target Churches for attack,” the Digital Journal reports. Britain must help Christians in peril in the Middle EastSunday, April 15th, 2012“Of two million Iraqi refugees currently outside of the country, some 30 per cent are minorities, mostly Christians, according to the UN: the bulk of them in Syria, Jordan and Turkey, unable to work and living in desperate poverty. Many in Syria now fear that it will become another Iraq, with Christians caught in the crossfire between rival Islamic communities,” The Telegraph reports. The Salafi War on Christians and U.S. IndifferenceSaturday, April 14th, 2012Salafi Muslims, who adhere to the radical Saudi Wahhabi doctrine of Islam, are responsible for the majority of attacks targeting Christians in the Islamic world, Nina Shea writes in the National Review Online. But, the Obama administration has outright ignored the “religious implications of these horrific events.” Death to Churches; Christian Holidays in the Islamic WorldFriday, April 13th, 2012“Christian holidays… are increasingly a time of death and destruction, and a time of terror [in the Islamic world],” the Gatestone Institute reports. On Easter Sunday, about 50 Christians when two bombs were detonated outside a church in northern Nigeria. Plight of Arab Christians in the Middle EastSunday, April 8th, 2012“As a result of the U.S.-led invasion that toppled that secular government and brought to power a coalition led by sectarian Shiite Muslim parties and created a backlash by Sunni Muslim extremists, the Christian community in Iraq -- one of the oldest in the world -- has been reduced by more than half,” the National Catholic Reporter reports. Why we all should defend Christianity in the Middle EastSaturday, April 7th, 2012The “rich fabric of interwoven social and cultural identities” in the Middle East may forever change if the mass exodus of Christians from the Middle East continues, writes Amer Al Sabaileh. Iraq: Our land is a Land of Abraham – An interview with an Iraqi Archbishop about the plight of the churchSaturday, March 31st, 2012“There are so many reasons to attack the Christians,” Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda told Aid to the Church in Need. “There are people who discriminate and attack Christians because they are Christians; there are other groups that attack the Christians because it makes international news - to show the whole world that the political process in Iraq is a failure; there are people who attack Christians out of social interest and finally others for economic reasons. This last group threatens Christian families forcing them out of their homes simply in order occupy the abandoned houses.” Iraqi Christians Still in Danger, Feel Neglected by Al-Maliki GovernmentFriday, March 30th, 2012“The year 2011 did not bring respite for Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq as hundreds of thousands of migrants who fled the country are still unwilling to risk returning due to reports of continued discrimination, fear of renewed violence and the government's apparent inability to protect citizens,” the Christian Post reports. Christians’ future in the Iraqi KurdistanSunday, March 25th, 2012“As it becomes clear that one major outcome of the region’s revolutions will be the empowerment of Islamists; the Arab Spring threatens to become a nightmare for the Middle East’s Christian minority,” writes Abdulla Hawez. Assyrian Rights Group Releases 2011 Report on Assyrians of IraqSunday, March 25th, 2012“Given the huge exodus of minorities and continuing threats and violence in 2011, there is a genuine worry that Assyrians… in Iraq may not survive the current conflict and that their unique culture and heritage will slowly disappear,” the Assyria Council of Europe reports. Click here for full report. Exodus from Iraqi Kurdistan: North No Longer Safe for ChristiansSaturday, March 24th, 2012Christians contemplate fleeing the northern Iraqi city of Zakho following last year’s riots that targeted Christians. 52 Killed in String of Iraq Bombings; Baghdad Church TargetedThursday, March 22nd, 2012“The Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Matthew in Baghdad was one of the targets in a string of bombings Tuesday, as Iraqi extremists conducted a series of attacks in several cities and towns across the country that killed at least 52 people in total,” the Christian Post reports. Christians fleeing IraqSunday, March 18th, 2012“Iraq’s prewar Christian population of between 800,000 and 1.4 million has dwindled to fewer than 500,000. Their numbers continue to decline: frightened by assassinations and bombings, Christians are fleeing safe havens where they once sought refuge in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq,” the Watertown Daily Times reports. Exodus From North Signals Iraqi Christians’ Slow DeclineMonday, March 12th, 2012“Iraq’s dwindling Christians, driven from their homes by attacks and intimidation, are beginning to abandon the havens they had found in the country’s north, discouraged by unemployment and a creeping fear that the violence they had fled was catching up to them,” The New York Times reports. Christians in Egypt, Iraq Feel Vulnerable, Filmmaker SaysSunday, March 11th, 2012Christians in Egypt and Iraq are an endangered minority and are emigrating in droves, Canadian journalist and broadcaster Martin Himel told the Canadian Jewish News. Israel and the Plight of Mideast ChristiansSaturday, March 10th, 2012While the future of the church in the West Bank town of Bethlehem is in jeopardy, Christians are not endangered but flourishing is Israel, Michael Oren writes in The Wall Street Journal. Arab Christians need to feel secureFriday, March 9th, 2012“Despite understandable rhetoric, neither Nouri Al Maliki in Iraq nor Bashar Al Assad in Syria will desist from sacrificing their Christian minority populations, should circumstances warrant it,” Gulf News reports. Don’t lose hope, even in hardship, pope tells Middle East ChristiansFriday, March 9th, 2012"I extend my prayerful thoughts to the regions in the Middle East, encouraging all the priests and faithful to persevere with hope through the serious suffering that afflicts these beloved people," said Pope Benedict XVI. |
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