This is not exactly news, but I watched this segment of 60 minutes on TV today, and ended up with tears in my eyes. You can also read the story here.
This is the story of underground Christians in Iraq. Unbelievable as it is, in the 2000 years of Christian history, the worst time for Christians is the time under American rule. They don't even have enough to eat, and they got murdered, tortured.
A brief summary of the story from the CBS site:
From the time of Jesus, there have been Christians in what is now Iraq. The Christian community took root there after the Apostle Thomas headed east.
But now, after nearly 2,000 years, Iraqi Christians are being hunted, murdered and forced to flee -- persecuted on a biblical scale in Iraq's religious civil war. You'd have to be mad to hold a Christian service in Iraq today, but if you must, then the vicar of Baghdad is your man. He's the Reverend Canon Andrew White, an Anglican chaplain who suffers from multiple sclerosis and from a fanatical determination to save the last Iraqi Christians from the purge.
White invited 60 Minutes cameras and correspondent Scott Pelley to an underground Baghdad church service for what's left of his congregation. White's parishioners are risking their lives to celebrate their faith.
From the interview,
"Some of your parishioners must ask you, 'Why is God allowing this to happen to us?'" Pelley asked.
"To them I say, 'God is with you and he is with me and I am with you and I'm not going away,'" White replied.
May God's kingdom come and His will be done, in Iraq as in heaven.
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