So how will Christmas be celebrated in a terrorist nation filled with Muslims ? But this year it has been a special celebration. Local authorities in Baghdad have put an Official Christmas celebration this year. Fireworks were set off over the Tigris in Baghdad due to the celebration.
With respect to the celebrations, A big Christmas tree in whole of the Middle East was installed in an amusement park in the city. In a press statement, President Barack Obama said, "In some areas of the Middle East where church bells have rung for centuries on Christmas Day, this year they will be silent."
As we knew the minorities where the Christians and they were largely made up of ethnic Assyrians. But for quite a long period, the Christians were living with peace and they also enjoy the exemption from Islamic Religious law.
Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Catholic Chaldean said, "We never had much time left as Christians in this region. There were about 1 million Christians in Iraq, and more than half of them have been displaced."
