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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: The Persecution of Christians in Iraq
Description: In 2003, before the US invasion of Iraq, there were an estimated 1.2 million Christians living there. Today, that number is less than 250,000 -- an eighty percent drop in less than two decades.  If this trend continues, a religious minority that has been in Iraq for centuries will be gone entirely.  A recent article in The Atlantic by reporter Emma Green describes the plight of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic community and the incredible pressure that they have been under since the fall of Saddam. This not only includes ISIS's reign of terror, but day-to-day discrimination against Christians that is causing so many to see...