Desert News: Tensions with Iran have calmed, but all religious sites remain at risk

Iran is using its proven strategy of co-opting local militias to encroach on Iraq’s Christian heartland. The good news: the incursion is still reversible. In the past few weeks, Iraqi federal forces and the militias…

“I can run through a list of countries where there are religious minorities who came to the United States to be safe,” says IDC Executive Director Philippe Nassif. “The same goes Christians from Sudan,” Nassif…