I received this email from International Christian Concern last week.  Click here for more of the story on ICC’s website, here for ICC’s page on Iraq, and here for the full story from AsiaNews (I encourage you to look at the other stories featured at the bottom of that page).  Please pray for Christ’s followers in Iraq–that God would give them strength and a greater faith in him–and that their persecutors would come to know the grace and salvation he offers. 

10/23/08 Iraq (AsiaNews) More Violence in Mosul: Father and Son Killed Because They Were Christian- The murder of Christians has continued in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Yesterday in Mosul, in the Sanaa neighborhood, a father and son were killed: no further details are available at this time on the method of the attack or the identity of the two victims, but their death is being viewed in connection with the violence in recent weeks that has emptied half of the Christian population of Mosul.