Iraqi Christians Fear Being Wiped Out
Iraqi Christians have been repeatedly targeted by militants in the 10 years since Saddam Hussein's overthrow and decimated by emigration that threatens to wipe the ancient community out. Duration:

Exodus of Iraqi Christians Seeking Refuge in Germany from the Hatred of Islam
SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Christians are being severely persecuted in Iraq. German churches are now urging the government to be generous in granting them asylum -- and have encountered broad support.

The peaceful, idyllic scenery outside their window is completely foreign to them. The house in the western German city of Essen, where they had arrived the previous Wednesday, faces a landscape of small gardens in full bloom. Fascinated, the seven children in the Jalal family are constantly looking out the window. They have come from Mosul in Iraq to Germany's Ruhr region, where their grandparents, who have already been living here for four years, have taken them in.

Armed Sunnis forced their way into the Jalal family's house last August. Screaming "damned Christians," they beat the children, the eldest of them only 14. The attackers spat at pictures of the Virgin Mary on the wall and then shot the mother to death in front of her children. Her husband had been kidnapped a few days earlier on the way to work and disappeared without a trace. Exodus from Hatred >>> By Peter Wensierski

Mark Alexander