A source for AsiaNews in Mosul reported that there is a "climate of panic" among the Christian community there, and that the city "has become the holocaust of the Christians."On Sept. 2 a Christian doctor was kidnapped and killed in Iraq, even after his family had paid the requested ransom. The same happened to another Christian only two days earlier.
In February, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was abducted outside of a church where he had led the Way of the Cross; it was a Friday of Lent. During the kidnapping, his three companions were killed.
For days there was no news from the archbishop or his kidnappers. Finally, after a phone call from the assailants, the archbishop's body was found March 13 in a shallow grave. He was 65.
Forty-seven Christians were killed in Iraq in 2007, including three priests.
The Christian community has already dwindled to less than half its number from five years ago. Some 1 million Christians lived in Iraq in 2003; today that number is barely 400,000.
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le terrorisme n'a pas de religion ...Alors ne vous affligez pas seulement pour les chretiens ! les Musulmans paient un lourd tribut et chaque jour des milliers meurent en irak , en Afganistan , au Pakistan , en Palestine , en Algerie et j'en passe ...Dans l'indifference totale! Un peu de jugeote et moins d'egoisme SVP !