Iraq’s Dechristianization Continues

“The United Nations estimated that 683 Christians fled Mosul between February 20 and February 27. Chaldean Catholic Bishop Emil Shimoun Nona of Mosul estimated that ‘about 400 families’ had left the city’s community of 4,000 Christians.”

This disheartening data comes from an article in Catholic World News. The Iraqi Catholic bishops themselves are bemoaning the situation. But that’s not all they are doing; they are also praying, fasting, and organizing their people to protest peacefully. The facts are not to be denied, and they are not the “spin” of liberal news pundits trying to make a Republican effort look bad.

The neoconservative fantasy of a better Iraq, one which has cost our armed forces so many lives, was never in the best interests of Iraq, or of the United States. There were voices raised early on pointing out that this war did not meet the criteria of a just war. One of these was Pope John Paul II. We agreed with him then and we still do.

Iraq’s Christians are reaping the bitter harvest of the global social engineering that passes for American foreign policy. God have mercy on them. God have mercy on us.