Christian killed in Basra for ‘selling alcohol’

A Christian shop owner said to be serving alcohol was shot dead in Iraq’s southern city of Basra, days after the country’s parliament passed a law prohibiting the commodity deemed “un-Islamic”. Nizar Elias Musa, 47, was shot in the neck late on Tuesday (25 Oct.) by two unidentified gunmen riding . . . Read More

New urgency for an old idea: Nineveh

New urgency for an old idea: Nineveh
An ancient Nineveh gate, east of Mosul.James Gordon / Flickr / Creative Commons   The militant Islamist rampage across Iraq has intensified calls for a Christian “safe zone,” even as it has made the task of achieving it more difficult. The jihadists, who call their movement the “Islamic State,” have . . . Read More