Muslim Group Orders all Christians to Leave Iraq

IRAQ – A Christian bishop has received a threatening letter written by Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish Muslim group affiliated with al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The Assyrian International News Agency AINA reported on its web site that the letter ordered all Christians to immediately leave Iraq. The letter said its writers are sending a final warning to Christians in Baghdad and other Iraqi areas to leave Iraq permanently.

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2 Christians Killed in Mosul by Islamic Terrorists

SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA – Two Christian sisters were killed this morning in the Al Qahira section in Mosul, Iraq, by Islamic terrorists for just being Christians.

The two sisters were murdered as the terrorists stormed into their house. Their mother was severely injured as a result of stab wounds. In addition, the terrorists placed a bomb in the house, which destroyed the small building. A police officer said the terrorists placed another bomb near the house. It exploded when the police arrived and injured three officers. Read the rest of this entry »

Persecution Report for November

From the Voice of the Martyrs Canada:
Part one of Novembers Persecution Report includes stories about the ongoing violence against Christians in Mosul, Iraq and Orissa, India. Also an update on the custody battle of 13 year-old Christian twin boys in Egypt. Their Muslim father changed their religion to Islam on their birth certificates when he converted to Islam.
Part 1

In part two of Novembers Persecution Report youll meet Yousef (not his real name)who came to Christ in 2004 in Pakistan. Yousef now spends most of his time in hiding with his wife and young son. Find out why.

Part 2

World update on the persecuted church November 2008

From Release International, this ten-minute webcast features news of the persecuted church in India, Indonesia, Iraq and Iran.

Three Christians Killed in Mosul, Iraq

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

BAGHDAD, IRAQ – Three Christians have been killed in the space of 24 hours in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported Wednesday.

Quoting the news source, the Assyrian International News Agency www.aina.org , says a man and his father were both shot dead Tuesday, October 7, at their workplace, while extremists forced their way into a pharmacy in another district of the city and killed a Christian assistant who worked there.

AINA said extremists killed a man and his father in September in the same city, which is located some 400 kilometers to the north of the capital and which is home to the second-largest community of Christians in Iraq after Baghdad.

Christians are persecuted because of their religion by the Sunni al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist group and by the Shiite militias, AINA reported.

The news agency says churches and aid organizations in Europe have been pushing for European Union EU countries to accept Christian refugees from Iraq, and Christian communities within Iraq are divided over the issue of immigration, which has severely reduced their numbers.

The Chaldean Church has spoken out for EU countries to accept individual Iraqi Christian families in acute danger, but the church would also like to prevent one of the worlds oldest Christian communities from disappearing.