{"id":1519,"date":"2007-06-07T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/wheres-the-coverage.html"},"modified":"2007-06-07T13:32:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T13:32:04","slug":"wheres-the-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/wheres-the-coverage.html","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the coverage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of anti-Christian violence in Iraq?<\/a><\/p>\n

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The mainstream media can’t get enough of the sectarian violence between the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds in Iraq. But one kind of sectarian violence that has consistently been under-reported since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the persecution of Iraq’s native Christian population. A Catholic News Agency story from June 6th reported:<\/p>\n

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According to the AINA news agency, two churches were attacked in the Baghdad district of Dora. At St. John the Baptist’s in Hay Al-Athoriyeen, several security guards who protect the church were killed, and St. Jacob’s in Hay al Asya was vandalized and forcibly turned into a mosque<\/strong>. St. Jacob’s had previously been attacked in October of 2004.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The raids on the two churches coincided with a funeral Mass for a priest and three deacons that were assassinated in Mosul on June 3rd<\/span><\/a>. A Google News search<\/span><\/a> revealed that there were only 4 articles about the raids, none of them from mainstream media sources . Besides the assassinations and the raids, a Chaldean Catholic priest in Baghdad was abducted<\/span><\/a> on June 6th and Shiite terrorists occupied a Chaldean Catholic convent in Baghdad<\/span><\/a> on May 31st.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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