Replies to post #7 on AG's Scratchin' Post

[Alex G]

The campaign of violence against Iraqi Christians is the most under-reported story out of the country since the 2003 invasion, the British newspaper Telegraph reported recently.

Iraqi Christians used to make up about 3 percent of Iraq's population, but now make up for more than half of its refugees, the Telegraph has reported.Iraqi church leaders who have visited the National Council of Churches offices in New York have implored U.S. Christians to take closer notice of their fellow Christians in Iraq.
http://pakistanchristian.tv/news/2010-04-28_NCC_asks_US_officials_to_intercede_for_Iraq_Christians.cfm

As a Dominican Sister, I know from our own Iraqi Sisters about the persecution Christians are experiencing. Our Sisters in Baghdad and Mosul have chosen to stay and minister to Christians and Muslims alike. A tragic effect of the war and our U.S. presence has been a persecution of Christians never experienced during the admittedly brutal and unjust reign of Saddam Hussein.
In recent weeks assassins entered the home of a Christian family in Mosul, killing an elderly father and his two sons. Panicked by the realization that they are no longer safe in their own homes, more than 100 families fled Mosul. Rapes and murders have been reported. The elderly sisters in the Dominican motherhouse in Mosul have chosen to stay in the convent, lest terrorists seize it. http://www.sentinel.org/node/11008