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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

The war in Iraq, soon to enter its fifth year, has become a costly setback for Christianity in that troubled land. Though Iraq has been associated with biblical and Christian history for 5,000 years, ...

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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?

CharlieJ

Posted: January 23, 2007 7:17 AM

People in a free and democratic society should be allowed to worship without fear of reprisal or death from their government or so-called "insurgents". Unfortunately people like H.D. Schmidt (above) fail to see the irony of calling the names of the "Founding Fathers" -- for they would have fought to their own death for the rights of the citizens of a country to believe in God and worship freely. The Founding Fathers would be appalled that we would disregard the beliefs of a people group in lieu of a military victory. For their can be no true freedom without freedom to worship.

E.Peters

Posted: January 22, 2007 10:56 PM


My heart aches as I remember as a child hearing from refugees of the massacre in the 1930's, How the Christian community can be unaware or indifferent to this suffering is beyond my imagination. With our freedom in jepordy we go blindly on. May the Lord have mercy upon us!

H. D. Schmidt

Posted: January 22, 2007 3:00 PM


This Nation was founded for other than using the military to spread the Goodness of Christianity, hence the miltary victory the writer refers to, will only increase the disrespect for the little that is still Christian in America. The Founding Fathers would be appalled reading this about what Christians need in Iraq!

Lindy Scott

Posted: January 22, 2007 2:29 PM

The article is fine in what it affirms. Nevertheless, it seems that CT and other evangelical forums need to address the more basic question of whether the invasion of Iraq met Christian ethical standards, at least the just war criteria. North American evangelicals were largely supportive of an invasion that has proven to be a "short term disaster" and that will probably become a "long term catastrophe." As Christians, we need to confess our moral failures, both at a personal and a national level. If this war was not justified, we need to admit it. A first step would be for President Bush and evangelicals who supported the invasion to admit we were wrong, at least on some aspects (ex. WMD). Next, we need to urge our leaders to renounce any interest in Iraqi oil and to renounce any desire for permanent military bases in Iraq. Otherwise, Christianity will be seen as accompanying and justifying an enterprise that is not worthy of Jesus Christ and that has caused harm to the gospel witness.

Mike Craig

Posted: January 22, 2007 12:57 PM

According to Voice of the Martyrs, persecuted Christians most often ask for prayer. Also letters of encouragement and solidarity bolster saging morale. The persecuted can feel isolated and abandoned. There are a number of organizations ministering to the persecuted church, International Christian Concern, Jubilee Campaign, and VOM just to name 3. These organizations can provide addresses and names.

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