Iraqi Kurdistan: A Safe Haven for Christians?
Iraqi Kurdistan: A Safe Haven for Christians?
Alan Wisdom
www.theird.com
January 14, 2013
Iraq's Christian population has been the target of violence for several years. (Photo credit: Al-Monitor )
The Christian community in Iraq has suffered great loss in the decade since the U.S. invasion of 2003. Is there a ray of hope now that Iraq's Assyrian, Chaldean, Armenian, and other Christians can find a secure future in the Kurdistan region? This was the possibility contemplated at a December 5 conference sponsored by Catholic University in Washington, DC.
Since 2003, Iraqi Christian homes, businesses, and churches have been targets of repeated violent attacks-bombings, shootings, kidnappings, arsons-perpetrated by militias aligned with other religious and ethnic groups. The central government has often been unwilling or unable to provide effective protection.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Alan Wisdom
www.theird.com
January 14, 2013
Iraq's Christian population has been the target of violence for several years. (Photo credit: Al-Monitor )The Christian community in Iraq has suffered great loss in the decade since the U.S. invasion of 2003. Is there a ray of hope now that Iraq's Assyrian, Chaldean, Armenian, and other Christians can find a secure future in the Kurdistan region? This was the possibility contemplated at a December 5 conference sponsored by Catholic University in Washington, DC.
Since 2003, Iraqi Christian homes, businesses, and churches have been targets of repeated violent attacks-bombings, shootings, kidnappings, arsons-perpetrated by militias aligned with other religious and ethnic groups. The central government has often been unwilling or unable to provide effective protection.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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