On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that growing religious intolerance was an overlooked downside to the ‘Arab Spring.’ While the popular revolts against longtime dictators in the Middle East and North Africa brought hope to millions of Arabs, Religious minorities in those countries, particularly Christians have seen an increase in persecution in the [...]

  Christians Continue to be targeted and killed by by Muslim extremists in Iraq.  Tuesday a six-year-old girl and her Christian father were killed by a car bomb in Mosul. On Monday in Mosul, gunmen barged into a home and killed two Christian men in their living room. Today on Wednesday the bullet-riddled body of [...]

(Assyrian Church by ashour rehana via Flickr) In Mosul, Iraq the persecution of Christians continued this Christmas with the bombing of St Thomas Church last Wednesday killing two men and wounded five others. Even more astounding was the attack upon the Christian community of Bartilla in Northern Iraq on Christmas Day. Over 100 Shiite Muslims [...]

(Image by Getty Images via Daylife) Maybe it’s just me but I find it rather ironic that President Barack Obama wins the Nobel ‘Peace prize’ during a week in which he is consulting with his generals and staff on strategies for 2 wars—Afghanistan and Iraq? Actually three if you want to say that there is [...]

(Photo: AP Images / Karim Kadim) Persecution of Christians has risen up again in Iraq this week with the bombing of 7 churches, 6 in Bagdad and one in Mosul. Resulting in 4 dead and 32 injured including at least 4 children. Past persecution of the Christian community in Iraq has forced nearly 500,000 Iraqi [...]

(Iraqi Christmas Service by Getty Images via Daylife) 2008 has been a very rough year for the few hundred thousand Christians who remain in Iraq. At least this year the government acknowledged Christmas as an official holiday for the first time. On Christmas Day, Chaldean Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly praised the establishment of Christmas as [...]

(Nativity Picture via Wikipedia) Christians still living in Iraq are hunkered down and secretly and privately preparing for Christmas. Those in Mosul are particularly fearful that radical Muslims may choose to make a point at their expense during the Christmas season. Christianity Today has a fine article with a good summary on what Christians have [...]