In August 2004 , International Christian Concern protested an attack by Islamists on Iraqi Christian churches that killed 11 people . In 2006 , an Orthodox Christian priest , Boulos Iskander , was beheaded and mutilated despite payment of a ransom , and in 2008 , the Assyrian clergyman Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of the Chaldean Catholic church in Mosul died after being abducted . In January 2008 , bombs exploded outside nine churches
attack
2004 Iraq churches attacks
Christianity in Iraq