By Jessica Winch, The Telegraph
Canon Andrew White is the vicar of the only Anglican church in Iraq Photo: DAVID BLAIR
Christians in the Nineveh region of northern Iraq are unable to celebrate communion for the first time in two millennia, after Islamic State militants captured the area and took over the churches.
Canon Andrew White, vicar of the only Anglican church in Iraq, told The Telegraph that Isil have set up offices in the churches and have replaced crosses with the militant group’s black flag.
“Last week there was no communion in Nineveh for the first time in 2,000 years,” he said. “All [the churches] are closed, all their people have run away. It is so sad.”
Many Christians moved from the Iraqi capital to Mosul and Nineveh in the north of the country following bloody sectarian killings and other violence after the 2003 US-led invasion.
Now an estimated 200,000 Christians have been forced to flee their homes once again after Isil swept through their villages this summer, demanding that they convert to Islam, pay taxes for being Christians or face death.
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Pretend Iraq, or Syria for that matter, was a small village in Gaza, or was in the West Bank. Not only would the PCUSA be all over this, but would find a vehicle to blame Israel or its housing policy, or its oppression of good and decent folk, as the real reason for the plight of this group of Christians. Grady would be sending out letter after letter of protest and whole forest of tress would be cut to staff the study committees.
Oh, you say Iraq is not between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and the Jews cannot be found to blame. O never mind PCUSA, go back to sleep while now while the faithful are being slaughtered. I think Louisville is still lost in their “big tent”.