[Anderson:] Tensions are growing in the world's most populous Muslim country after a wave of religious hate crimes. A Catholic school and two churches were seriously damaged after Muslim hard-liners set the buildings on fire in a town in Central Java in Indonesia. And in this shot, police and soldiers are left to clean up the debris. Standing guard outside the Christian churches in the town, the police are on high alert, while in a separate attack on Sunday, Muslim mobs brutally murdered three followers of an Islamic sect in front of the police. This is what's left of the house belonging to the sect's leader. Well, human rights organizations have criticized the president for failing to deal with the recent violence. One of the most dangerous places for Christian is Iraq. They've frequently been the target of violence. In November of last year, 56 people, you may remember, sadly, were killed at a church in Baghdad. Scores were injured and the bloody massacre sparked a new Christian exodus from the Iraqi capital. One group has found refuge in Paris. Jim Bittermann has their story.
[Jim Bittermann, Cnn Correspondent:] At Sunday mass, thousands of miles from home, a handful of Iraqis follow a Catholic ritual that cuts across the language barriers. They are refugees forced out of their homeland by the threat of death. But for most of the 50 or so who are here, it was more than just a threat. They are the widows, brothers, sisters and parents of victims of a bloody massacre of Baghdad Catholics. Father Rafael Katami remembers every detail of that attack last October. He had just finished reading a gospel lesson and was about to start his sermon when the shooting began. It continued for four hours before Iraqi special forces were able to bring the situation under control. Two auxiliary priests were killed, along with 56 others. More than 70 people were injured, including Father Rafael, who was struck by grenade fragments. Just days later, the first of those who had been targeted began arriving in France. Fifty-seven were granted immediate refuge and they may be joined by hundreds more family members. But they're only a small part of the Iraqi Christian community which is being forced to leave. [on camera]: Over the past three years, about 800 Iraqi Christians have found refuge in France. But since last October's attack, the number on the waiting list to come here has exploded to more than 4,000. Slowly, the Iraqi Christian community is disappearing. [voice-over]: An Anglican bishop helping to bring religious refugees to safety says there are now only a third as many Christians in Iraq as there were before the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
[Bishop Pierre Whalon, European Anglican Communion:] There have been Christians assassinated every single day since 2003, at least one. You I mean the news reports, you just get tired of it, because what's new? Another Christian or two or 10 murdered today here in Mosul, here in Baghdad, here in Kirkuk or elsewhere.
[Bittermann:] Bishop Whalon says no one wants to see such an ancient community disappear, least of all the refugees themselves. But they have little choice. That's certainly the feeling of Elias, who wants to keep his real name a secret because he's still trying to bring his family out of Iraq. The former government bureaucrat was wounded in church attack and says he heard the gunmen say they want to drive Christian infidels out of the country. The last thing he wanted to do, he says, was to leave his homeland. "
[Elias," Iraqi Christian Refugee:] I'm now in France, not my country. I have no job here. Now we will camp and we will come here for what? We must go outside. And because of that, you see us here.
[Bittermann:] It is, says Elias, lonely and confusing to be in a strange land with a different language and he really does not want to stay. But he also knows he has little choice but to try to start a new life here. "
[Elias":] I am not young, so I have memories. I have lots of feeling in Iraq, exactly in Baghdad. So when I remember some of them, I start to be sad. Sometimes I cry. But what can we do? It's our destiny.
[Bittermann:] A destiny that must now be fulfilled thousands of miles from home. Jim Bittermann, CNN, Paris.
[Anderson:] A community under siege in various parts of the world. Well, the Muslim Brotherhood says it wants to participate, not dominate, Egypt's political scene. Brotherhood leaders spoke out in Cairo today, trying to put fears to rest that they are waiting in the wings to take power. We'll speak with one of the group's spokesmen right after this. That and your headlines coming up.