Time To Go Again

Well, I received one comment on my first blog (thanks, Scott!) so I am now encouraged to write a second one. Although, I just received a story emailed to me from my brother in Christ Darin. Read this over. Have you heard of this happening? Can anyone tell me where we can find out more? Article below:

Church Calls for Action over Gruesome Violence toward Christians in IraqSoaring violence against Christians in Iraq - including the alleged crucifixion of a teenage boy in Basra - has prompted the Catholic Church to call for a safe haven to protect minority groups as the country slides toward civil war, according to the website This is London. The American Catholic bishops have also asked US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to grant asylum to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians who have fled their homes to escape persecution. They told her that they were deeply alarmed by the "rapidly deteriorating situation of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq". John Pontifex of the British branch of Aid to the Church in Need, a charity set up to help persecuted Christians, said he was aware of reports of the crucifixion of a Christian boy in Basra in October, but had not details. He said he also agreed with the US bishops' assessment of the situation in Iraq. "What we are now witnessing in Iraq is a vicious attempt to wipe Christianity from the face of a country," he said yesterday. "Beheadings, killings, arrests and torture, it is the stuff of nightmares, an era every bit as cruel as the persecution of Christians in Roman times."