Iraq Christians suffer as violence kills 140

"It is difficult to tell of the intensity of violence here over the past week," said Canon Andrew White, who leads the St. George's Anglican Church in Baghdad, the capital. "The slaughters and massacres have intensified so much that the sound of explosions has almost become the norm," he added in a statement monitored by BosNewsLife.




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“The sad fact is that there are now many Sunni clerics shouting from TV that the Shia should be killed before the Jews and the Christians,”---

“The more terror and destruction that our people experience the more they are certain that when they have lost everything Jesus is all they have left,” he noted.

That became clear last week when Jews and Christians celebrated the Jewish feast of Shavuot, held 50 days after Passover to celebrate that God gave the Torah, the Jewish Bible, and “the Holy Spirit came” in his power, he said. “The celebration was very small and secret. We dined in the church as Jews and Christians in a nation where there are only six Jews left.”






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Jesus: "Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you." John 15:20 (ESV)





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