Tag: Christians in Iraq

ALREADY suffering Christians in Iraq may quit the country if the war in the Holy Land engulfs the region, an archbishop there has warned.

Alireza Seyyedian converted from Islam to Christianity in 2006, was sentenced to six years in prison for being baptized in Turkey.

In an interview, Mohammed al-Rubai said, "These houses belonged to Christians who fled from Baghdad, seeking refuge from violent attacks targeting them and their homes.”

THE organisation, the Nineveh Plains Protection Units, has more than 4,000 troops serving or awaiting training, and has the backing of the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Peshmerga.

THE Islamic State is turning Christian churches in Iraq and Syria into dungeons and torture chambers after stripping them of priceless artifacts to sell on the black market, according to reports.

A young Christian couple have been killed and a Christian man kidnapped in Iraq, heightening fears about the increasing threat to the Christian community now US troops have left the country.

Iraqi women at a church worship.LITTLE Nuria and her sisters love singing songs about Jesus. But when people Nuria doesn't know ask her if she's a Christian, she doesn't know what to answer; instead, she looks questioningly at her mother or father.