Tuesday, 14th August 2007. 4:03pm
By: George Conger | Religious Intellignece
THE PLIGHT of Iraq’s embattled Christian minority is dire and little has been done to alleviate the suffering, the vicar of Baghdad, Canon Andrew White told the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) at a hearing recently in Washington.
Coalition forces have ‘done nothing to support the Christian community,’ nor respond to Christian ‘suffering’, while the country’s Jewish community -- once one of the largest in the world, has shrunk to eight people, Canon White said.
The July 25 hearings were called by the US government to examine the serious threats faced by Iraq's ‘communities of antiquity’: the country's non-Muslim religious communities, including Chaldo Assyrian Christians, Yazidis, Sabean Mandaeans, and other minority religious groups.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but, isn't it the fundamentalist Christian Right that most favors and supports the war in Iraq? Isn't it a little disingenuous to be barking after the blood of Islamists while turning your Christian back on the plight of fellow Christians as if they weren't there? Somehow, it seems so .... uh ... un-Christian of our Christians.
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