Iraq

    Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi Christians have faced violence and persecution from segments of both Sunni and Shi'ite communities, with whom the Christian minority had lived peacefully since 40 A.D. Threatened, attacked, abducted, beheaded: Iraqi Christians are suffering at the hands of those who associate their religion with that of the invading armies. An estimated 200- 300,000 Iraqi Christians have fled to surrounding countries, where disease, starvation and violence exacerbate already tragic conditions. Christians who remain in today’s Iraq worship in secrecy, fearing for their lives.

    Iraq
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    Literature

    Narrative nonfiction:

    • Mike Hoyt and John Palattella, Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists who Covered It, Melville House, New York, 2007
    • Dahr Jamail, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2008
    • Deborah Ellis, Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees, Groundwood Books, Toronto, 2009
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