66 churches have been attacked or bombed in Iraq since June 2004
The Assyrian International News Agency has the grim details and a report on the ethnic cleansing of the Assyrians:
I know I trot out the following stats with monotonous regularity, but it needs to be heard, and please do bear in mind the situation is far worse now:
In the seven years since the Iraq War was launched, 2,000 Christians have been murdered and 600,000 have fled Iraq, according to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. 44% of Iraqi refugees are Christians, and many of the 600,000 Christians who remain are internally displaced persons who have had to flee their homes.
Tags: Christian Persecution
November 3rd, 2010 at 5:17 pm
I don’t see what any of us can do about it – and to be honest I’m as concerned about the human rights of Muslims in Iran as I am about those of Christians. I join with countless others in hoping for regime change.
Let us not forget that the biggest death toll of Islamism is among other Muslims. Their faith is riven by bloody divisions.
November 3rd, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Sophie, how about prayer – perhaps for our dead brothers and sisters in Christ first, and the atrocities perpertrated against them, then the Islamism atrocities against fellow muslims next?
November 4th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
@ Phoebs: That’s a given, I always pray for those in peril – whether through war, famine or other disaster. However I don’t distinguish between different faiths when I do.