.ABC News: Ethnic cleansing driving Christians out of Iraq
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Fifty people were massacred in a Baghdad cathedral two weeks ago. (AFP: Sabah Arar)
Christians are fleeing Iraq, saying they are being ethnically cleansed by Islamic militants.
Ever since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Christians - like all Iraqis - have been caught up in the sectarian violence.
But in the past two weeks a series of horrific attacks have Iraqi Christians packing up and leaving like never before.
At St Ephraim's church in the Jordanian capital, Amman, the Syrian Orthodox mass goes back to the earliest years of Christianity.
Half of the liturgy is still delivered in Aramaic - the language spoken by Jesus.
This is where the Christian faith has its deepest roots. But the congregation is desperate to leave the Middle East. Read more...
posted by Mister Ghost at 3:36 AM
1 Comments:
That's too bad, when I was there, they were the only group we didn't have to worry about trying to kill us. They were the only ones who could fix things and had any common sense. Now I know for sure Iraq will go to hell. There will no longer be anybody there worht saving.
Nuke it.
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