Iraq Tightens Security Around Churches, Christian Towns After Wave of Attacks. July 13, 2009 More than ... which remains Iraq's most dangerous city.

Editor’s Note: Andrew Doran is founder of In Defense of Christians and was on the executive secretariat of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO at the U.S. State Department. The views ...

A Christian In Iraq. Published Apr 04, 2003 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 4:59 PM EST. By Newsweek Staff . ... Kerr, 27, works with the organization Christian Peacemaker Teams, ...

A trickle of Christian emigration during Saddam Hussein’s dictatorial rule swelled in earnest during the blood-soaked chaos after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Newsletter News Alerts ...

Reports say the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to rubble. — -- The 1,400-year-old stone-and-mortar structure served as a place of worship not only for local religious ...

The majority of Iraq's Christians have fled the predominantly Muslim country as the Islamic State occupied their towns in and around Mosul. Christians have lived in the region since the start of ...

At Mar Elias, 110 families, 564 people in all, jammed into its large grounds in Ankawa, a Christian suburb of Irbil. Mar Elias is a Chaldean, or Eastern-rite Catholic church, but the refugees ...

Christian religious leaders in northern Iraq called for an international investigation Monday into a deadly wedding fire that killed more than 100 people last week and slammed the government’s ...

At least 10 Christian families have left Kirkuk in recent weeks, fearing kidnap-for-ransom gangs that have turned their sights on Christians in one of Iraq's most ethnically diverse cities.

George Bush, a born-again Christian, envisioned a secular new Iraq. Ibrahim Jafari, a devout Shiite, wants Islam enshrined in his nation's constitution. IE 11 is not supported.

Before visiting Iraq last month, I met with Pope Francis. He told me that “a Middle East without Christians is not the Middle East.” Baghdad’s ambassador in Washington often says that ...