Christian photographer killed in Mosul

Four days after his abduction, Salmon Dawoud Salman, a 45-year old Christian, was shot nine times at close range by his kidnappers.

Christians fleeing northern Iraqi refuges

The New York Times has published a good article describing the decline of Christianity in Iraq as Christians flee their refuges taken up in the north of the country:

Iraq’s dwindling Christians, driven from their homes by attacks and intimidation, are beginning to abandon the havens they had found in the country’s north, discouraged by unemployment and a creeping fear that the violence they had fled was catching up to them [more]. 

Archbishop's residence attacked in Kirkuk

Two gunmen from Baghdad opened fire on the residence of the Archbishop of Kirkuk, killing two.  One person has been arrested and Archbishop Sako and his aides were unharmed.  Police suspect the intended target of the attack was Jala Niftaji, a member of Parliament who lives nearby.