Iraq's Persecuted Christians
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Members of one of Iraq's minority faiths face new repressions and discrimination after the fall of Saddam's regime
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Iraq's Shiite prime minister said Friday hard-line Sunni clerics outside Iraq share the blame for this week's bloodshed at a Shiite religious festival in Karbala because they issued religious decrees terming Shiites heretics.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Gunmen bombed two churches in the  tense Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, fueling fears of ethnic and  sectarian unrest ahead of an election next month.
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Five Christian churches in Baghdad were firebombed early Saturday morning in coordinated attacks, the latest effort by insurgents to terrorize the relatively small community of Christians in Iraq.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Christians in Indonesia, the world&#39;s largest Muslim-populated country, flocked to churches
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Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday he is greatly concerned about the fate of Christians in Iraq, returning to a theme he discussed with President Bush earlier this month.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Explosions hit five Christian churches in Baghdad on Saturday and the U.S. command said four more American troops and an Iraqi interpreter were killed by car bombs as violence flared while Iraqi Muslims began marking the holy month of Ramadan...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Raids on mosques and the arrests of hardline clerics are raising fears that the US siege on Fallujah will further alienate Iraq&#39;s Sunni minority.
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Only a few Iraqi Christians showed up to celebrate Mass in Baghdad's churches on Saturday because of fears that Islamic militants could launch attacks to coincide with the holiday.
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The acrid scent of explosives and fire hovered inside the gutted church as Iraqi Christians baptized Savio Mar Georgis. By Muhannad Fala&#39;ah, Getty Images.
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   their homes and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   violence that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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BIYARA, Iraq -- During the two years that Ansar al-Islam ruled this mountain redoubt, its secular Kurdish population had to learn to live under a brutal Islamic code modeled on the Taliban.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which dozens of people were killed and nearly 100 wounded, officials said.
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PALU, Indonesia -- Christians angered by yesterday's executions of three Roman Catholic militants in the world's most populous Muslim country torched cars and government buildings, looted shops, and attacked a jail, freeing hundreds of inmates.
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Baghdad - A senior Sunni religious figure vented his outrage on Friday against those behind a double suicide bombing the previous day that left scores of children dead in Baghdad.
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A disputed article about Sunni worshippers being burned alive in Iraq has ignited the blogosphere and caused the Iraqi government to threaten journalists with Âlegal action.Â
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BAGHDAD -- The two men knocked on Abu Salam's door on a Friday morning. He was one of the last remaining Christians on his block.