Iraqi Christians put to the sword
Iraqi Christians put to the sword
Worship in Iraq is now more dangerous than under Saddam's dictatorship as Islamists bomb churches in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Adrian Blomfield reports.
Remembrance ceremony: a woman lighting a candle for the scores of Iraqi Christians left dead and wounded after the siege at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad Photo: AP
By Adrian Blomfield
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
November 12, 2010
Unless told what to look for, the casual visitor to the once glamorous Baghdad thoroughfare that hugs the east bank of the Tigris would almost certainly pass them by. The Stars of David carved into the stonework of the low-slung buildings that line the alleyways of Abu Nuwas Street are little more than a curiosity these days - a memento of a civilisation lost to the pages of history.
Judaism has a connection to Iraq that no other faith can match. The patriarch Abraham may well have been born there; the prophet Jonah reluctantly returned to foretell the destruction of Nineveh. Centuries later, the Bible tells us that the exiled Jewish people sat down by Babylon's rivers and wept for their homeland. Yet Jewish links to Iraq are far from ancient history.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Worship in Iraq is now more dangerous than under Saddam's dictatorship as Islamists bomb churches in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Adrian Blomfield reports.
Remembrance ceremony: a woman lighting a candle for the scores of Iraqi Christians left dead and wounded after the siege at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad Photo: APBy Adrian Blomfield
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
November 12, 2010
Unless told what to look for, the casual visitor to the once glamorous Baghdad thoroughfare that hugs the east bank of the Tigris would almost certainly pass them by. The Stars of David carved into the stonework of the low-slung buildings that line the alleyways of Abu Nuwas Street are little more than a curiosity these days - a memento of a civilisation lost to the pages of history.
Judaism has a connection to Iraq that no other faith can match. The patriarch Abraham may well have been born there; the prophet Jonah reluctantly returned to foretell the destruction of Nineveh. Centuries later, the Bible tells us that the exiled Jewish people sat down by Babylon's rivers and wept for their homeland. Yet Jewish links to Iraq are far from ancient history.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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