Iraq is a country that is located in the Middle East. The vast majority of the country's population adopts Islam as a source of devotion and faith, based on the life and teachings of Muhammad and on the Koran, the holy scripture.
Since 750, there has been a minority in the country who choose Christianity to follow. Christians multiply easily in Iraq, which draws the attention of the country's Islamic authorities. With the high number of Christian people in the Islamic region, the authorities, in the year 2000, establish laws forbidding Christians to baptize their children with Western and Christian names and only allow them to be registered with names contained in the Qur'an or of Arabic origin. .
Other persecutions made life difficult for Christians in Iraq. Christian children were prevented from studying, because according to the law of the country, a school could not reach 25 Christian students in the institution. If the school had 25 Christian students, it was obliged to offer Christian education, which would make the Islamic students leave the institution and the institution, under great loss, would go bankrupt. Another fact was that a Christian could convert to Islam and be well accepted in society, but an Islamist was expressly forbidden to convert to Christianity and if he did, he was killed along with those who baptized him.
Today there are still mass persecutions against Christians in this region. They are threatened, kidnapped, forced to immigrate, murdered and are treated as Western agents who are not worthy of Iraqi trust.