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What Iraq's Christians Need

Two strategies to build up the church in the war-weary nation.

A Christianity Today editorial | posted 1/22/2007 08:36AM

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Someday, we pray, they will be able to return to their homeland, where they will once again bring Christ's healing presence to their torn society.

Related Elsewhere:

Christianity Today's full coverage area on Iraq has articles on the country's Christians.

The Assyrian International News Agency lifts news stories from other publications without permission, but is comprehensive.

The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East has an official site, including a section that answers basic questions about the church's origins and beliefs.

In its Iraq Emergency section, The website of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees also has statistics on Iraqi refugees around the world and a summary of UNHCR spokesperson's statements at an October press briefing.

Other news on Iraqi Christians includes:

Iraqi Christians Face Increasing Danger | The position of Iraq's small but ancient Christian community is growing more tenuous, as militant Islamists attack churches and priests. Now some Iraqi Christians want to create a separate, autonomous enclave for their community on the Nineveh Plain of Northern Iraq. (NPR's All Things Considered)

Iraq: Christian Minority Seeks Haven From Violence | A former Iraqi minister seeks to drum up support for the idea of a separate Iraqi province where Christians and other religious minorities can live in safety and peace. (Radio Free Europe)

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david Fong

Posted: January 23, 2007 11:41 PM


SUPPORT ALL THE MEANS FOR DEMORACY IN IRAQ TO ACHIEVE EQUALITY WITH NO STATE RELIGION ONLY WITH NATURAL LAW AND GOD WITH NO SUPREMACY BY THE RICH. JUST LIKE THE U.S. AT ITS BEGINNINGS. NO SECT MILITIAS.

Angela

Posted: January 23, 2007 2:44 PM


Thank you for this article so we know what to pray for in Iraq for our Christian brothers and sisters.

Irene Voysey

Posted: January 23, 2007 1:59 PM

Following attending a Christian conference in Iraq in 2001, I sponsored a young Iraqi couple who were under tribal sentence of death for turning to Christ. They arrived in Australia within 10 months. The US had refused them entry. Many of their family members have since been killed. I have just returned from New York, where a friend who works for a refugee agency told me your government is not accepting any refugees from Iraq "because we have given them democracy". The Iraqi couple I sponsored responded to this news with the sad comment, "They have made all Iraqis refugees in their own country." Why aren't you advocating that Christians get out on the streets and demand that the Bush administration IMMEDIATELY offers safe haven to Iraqi Christians? No room in the inn?

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