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No "top five" today. Just a question: In the Christian calendar, Christmas continues until Epiphany (January 6). So if you take your decorations down this weekend, are you part of the "war on Christmas"? On a similar note, why have almost all the organizations that made such a big deal about putting Christ back in Christmas already dropped references to Christmas from their website home pages? Was all that really just about the shopping season?

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Rowan Williams on Iraq and Israel:

• Pray for the little town of Bethlehem | We mustn't forget the plight of Arab Christians (Rowan Williams, The Times, London)
  
  
• Christians suffer for Iraq, says archbishop | Rowan Williams warns of war's deadly backlash (The Times, London)
  
  
• Anglican leader blasts war in Iraq | The U.S.-led coalition's "shortsightedness and ignorance" in Iraq have endangered the lives of Christians across the Middle East, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in a scathing commentary Saturday (Associated Press)
  
  
• Anglican leader criticizes Israeli wall | The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said Friday during a pilgrimage to Bethlehem, that the Israeli-built wall around the traditional site of Jesus' birth symbolized what was "deeply wrong in the human heart," a British news agency reported (Associated Press)
  
  
• Unholy alliance | Dr Rowan Williams' concern for Christians in the Middle East is an attempt to elevate Christians above those of other faiths in the region (Seth Freedman, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Perfidious pilgrim | Rowan Williams addresses Muslim attacks by blaming the Christian West and the Jews (Bradley Burston, Haaretz, Tel Aviv)
  
  
• Christians in crisis | Williams' tendency to confuse causes and symptoms could actually contribute to the growing persecution he describes (Editorial, The Jerusalem Post)
  
  

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Iraq:

• Iraqi Christians celebrate Christmas | The spirit of Christmas is still alive in Iraq, but it's tucked away behind the closed doors of Christian families, who represent about three percent of Iraq's 26 million people (Associated Press)
  
  
• Keeping Christmas alive on a Baghdad street corner | Perils fail to deter lone tree vendor (The Washington Post)
  
  
• In Iraq, Christians come out to worship | Christmas brings together the dwindling minority. More than 60 people, including 6 U.S. troops, are killed (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Iraqi Christians seek shelter in neighboring lands | Among the more than two and a half million Iraqis who have fled the country are a large number of Christians (All Things Considered, NPR)
  
  
• 'All my staff at the church have been killed - they disappeared' | Canon Andrew White told The Times that the Iraq war had had a dire effect on the lives of Christians in the region, particularly in Iraq, where he is the vicar of St George's Church in Baghdad (The Times, London)
  
  

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