New Hotspot: Mosul
Lately, persecution news has focused in on Orissa, India, where violence is ongoing and intense. Let’s not forget to continue to pray for those Christians - but at the same time, let’s not forget that there are so many other places where persecution is brutal reality.
The latest hotspot is the Iraqi city of Mosul (the modern-day location of ancient Ninevah)
. If you have followed Remember’s work, you know that persecution in Iraq has been growing since in recent years (Background Briefing). The toppling of the main dictator, Saddam Hussein, increased the power to local warlord dictators, many of whom hate Christianity. The persecution is widespread throughout the country, causing the vast majority of Iraq’s Christians to flee the country for their own safety. These are the Christians that we ministered to on our recent trip to Jordan.
But those Christians that remain are under constant threat of violence. That violence recently broke out in Mosul in a terrifying way. ANS is reporting that over 3,000 Christians have been forced to flee their homes in the last week alone.
Armed Islamic terrorists are walking in the streets and asking pedestrians for his or her identification card. The religion of the owner is written on every ID card, either Muslim or Christian. When “Christian” is read by the terrorists, the owner of the card is sometimes murdered on the spot with a bullet through the head.
These Christians need our prayers.
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