A price too high

The New York Times ran a sobering account of the high cost of being a Christian in Iraq. And it’s well worth the read. Reporter Andrew E. Kramer writes about the payments made by Iraqi Christians to militant Iraqi groups for protection. Andrew White, who oversees Anglican churches in Iraq, said much of that protection […]

The New York Times ran a sobering account of the high cost of being a Christian in Iraq. And it’s well worth the read.

Reporter Andrew E. Kramer writes about the payments made by Iraqi Christians to militant Iraqi groups for protection. Andrew White, who oversees Anglican churches in Iraq, said much of that protection money came from funds donated by Christians around the world to aid the country’s dwindling Christian minority. That money, in turn, was used by militant groups to fund the anti-U.S. insurgency that killed American soldiers.

In the case of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, when those protection payments stopped, he was kidnapped and found in a shallow grave a few weeks later.


Tragic. That’s the only word for it.

(photo credit: Safin Hamed/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)

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