Description
Christianity has been firmly established in Iraq for nearly two thousand years, but from the fourth century to the present day Christians in Iraq have faced periods of terrible persecution. This book brings together their stories, from the witness of martyrs sixteen hundred years ago, across the centuries, to our own time. In the twenty-first century Iraqi Christians have been confronted by relentless terrorist attack, by genocide and exile from their homeland. Alongside accounts of martyrdom and massacre under the Persian and Ottoman Empires and, in the twentieth century, the newly independent Kingdom of Iraq, Robert Ewan records the heart-rending stories of just some of the myriad of contemporary martyrs: Sister Cecilia Moshi Hanna, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni and of the massacre at Sayidat al-Najat Church in Baghdad.
Author: Robert Ewan
Publisher: Gracewing
Published: 05/02/2017
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780852449127
ISBN10: 0852449127
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | History
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