July 16, 2011
Articles
By Michael De Groote, Deseret News 15/7/2011 EMAIL: mdegroote@desnews.com, TWITTER:(http://www.twitter.com/degroote) PROVO — When Saddam Hussein’s regime toppled in 2003 there were about 1 million Christians in Iraq. Now there are about 300,000. But this exodus of Christian refugees isn’t a matter of a foreign religion being forced out of an Islamic country. It is a [...]
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Catholic Church,
Iraq,
Middle East
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January 4, 2011
Articles
Recent attacks against Christians in Egypt and Iraq have drawn attention to the Middle East’s Christian populations, which are dwindling as Christians flee violence, political strife, and persecution. Christians made up more than 20 percent of the region’s population in the early 20th century, but today, they make up less than 10 percent. Here is [...]
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Egypt,
Iraq,
Middle East
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