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Baghdad Conference Focuses On Future of Iraqi Christians

By Howard M. Friedman

AINA this week reported on a conference held in Baghdad on Dec. 11-12 to discuss the future of Iraq's Christian community. Attended by over 120 leaders of Christian groups and former and current government officials, the conference made dozens of recommendations, mostly to the government of Iraq, but some to Kurdistan, the UN, the international community and Iraqi Christians themselves. The recommendations (set out in the AINA report) ranged from urging Iraq's federal government to provide greater security for Christians and other minorities to urging Christian satellite channels to refrain from programming that encourages Christians to leave for Western countries.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).