Our Iraqi Brothers and Sisters…

A Baghdad Church

Show themselves to be true and faithful disciples of the Crucified Nazarene in a profoundly devoted way when they meet in their blood splattered Church in spite of the danger.

The walls were still splattered with blood and pieces of flesh as Iraqi Christians celebrated Mass on Sunday in the church that just a week before had been the scene of a horrific bloodbath in which dozens died. Parishioners holding candles and wearing black gathered in Baghdad’s Our Lady of Salvation church, which had been stripped bare of pews and still bore bullet holes along its walls, while overhead the chandeliers and ceilings were stained with blood.

Many Christians in America stayed home today because ‘they forgot to set their clock back’. I think the faithfulness of Iraq’s persecuted Christians is an indictment of American Christianity’s apathy.  Threat of violence doesn’t keep Iraqi Christians home.  Threat of missing their fantasy football league draft does keep American Christians home…  And that’s precisely why Christianity is growing in every part of the globe except Europe and North America.