Christian Churches Targeted In Iraq

From Juan Cole at Informed Comment via MAKT006 Business:

In the northern city of Mosul, guerrillas targeted Christian churches with a series of bombings. Some church-goers were injured and there was damage to buildings. The number of Christians in Iraq has probably been halved, from 800,000, by the war.

The churches targeted by bombs on the feast of the Epiphany were the Chaldean Church of St Paul, which suffered no casualties, the Assyrian church of the Virgin Mary, in which four were killed, a monastery, and the Chaldean church of Maskanta, with no casualties.

It's a terrible thing when anyone is killed or wounded in war, but Bush and Blair, two self-proclaimed Christians, launched a war against a country which had not harmed us and failed to protect the small and ancient Christian communities in Iraq, with the result that they are now halved in number compared to before the war, due to killings, kidnappings, and flight.

Pray for peace in Iraq. Pray for the Christians in Iraq.