Jun 5, 2007 / 09:29 am
The international president of Aid to the Church in Need, Hans-Peter Rothlin, is calling for prayers for the Church in Iraq, as “the persecution of Christians has reached a point that the future of the Church is in danger.”
In recent statements, Rothlin said, “We are sleep walking towards the death of a Christian population whose ancestors accepted the Gospel before everyone else in the first century.”
“In past ages,” he explained, “the Christians of Iraq had little or no voice, but now the situation is much worse. They are suffocating in silence. We have the duty to help Iraqi Christians because we share the same faith.” “Will it be too late when we do something?” he asked.
“Imagine if this were happening to us, imagine if they we kicking us out of our homes, imagine if we were receiving death threats, imagine also how we would feel if our sisters and daughters were forced to marry so-called Jihad warriors,” Rothlin stated.